Education

View of middle school students as part of the Schoodic Education Adventure program, walking through the intertidal zone on the Schoodic Peninsula. The treeline is shown in the background, against a bright blue sky.
February 22, 2023

A day at SEA

story by Mikayla Gullace, 2022 Cathy and Jim Gero Acadia Early-Career Fellow in Environmental Science Education As I stroll across campus on […]

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Deb Priest stands in a wooded area off the Alder Trail. She’s reaching with her right hand towards an Acadia National Park research tag attached to a tree and looking off to her right. She is wearing an orange shirt, green hat, and red and orange flannel. The tree in the foreground is ripe with berries and the leaves are turning orange and red.
November 10, 2022

The “Bug Lady” of Schoodic Point

Story + photos by Olivia Milloway From May through the end of September, Deb Priest searches for caterpillars. Just off […]

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A wooden picnic table is covered with clipboards, pencils, backpacks, and iPad tablets attached to keyboards. Students’ hands type at the keyboards.
October 17, 2022

Students explore science and art through photojournalism

story + photos by Olivia Milloway On a brisk morning in October, a gaggle of middle school students wandered through […]

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August 24, 2022

Advice for pursuing an ecology career after graduation

story + photos by Erica Roche, Summer 2022 Intern from University of Maine In the spring semester of my senior […]

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August 12, 2022

What a climate station can teach us about Acadian forests

by Olivia Milloway In July of 2021, a group of teachers from Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire traded in their […]

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Three early-career fellow face camera, smiling, with building behind them in background
July 13, 2022

New Fellowship to Close College-to-Career Gap Launched at Acadia National Park

Winter Harbor, Maine – Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park is pleased to announce the Cathy and Jim Gero Acadia Early-Career […]

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July 11, 2022

National Park Service Director, Charles F. “Chuck” Sams III, to speak in Acadia on July 26, 2022

Winter Harbor – On July 26th, 2022 Schoodic Institute will host our annual Goldstein Lecture to convene and inspire on […]

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June 23, 2022

Welcome 2022 Early Career Crew

by Hannah Webber and Shannon O’Brien This year brings the return of a full crew of technicians and interns, along […]

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March 14, 2022

Five Years of Crowdsourcing Biodiversity Data

by Seth Benz At Schoodic Institute, we believe that science is for everyone, and that everyone can contribute to science. […]

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February 3, 2022

Internships

We welcome student interns from colleges and universities to assist with multiple projects examining global change impacts to ecosystems in […]

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