History

Women of Acadia’s Intertidal Zone story + photos by Catherine Schmitt On a bright morning in early February, Jordan Chalfant […]

by Catherine Schmitt If months had a color, September would be yellow, thanks to the sunflowers, yarrow, and especially the […]

by Ben Capuano, 2021 Intern from College of the Atlantic The intertidal zones present within the land that today makes […]

by Catherine Schmitt | cover image by David Manski This week is National Moth Week. At Schoodic Institute, we’ve been […]

by Hannah Webber Summertime flies! Over the next few weeks, our interns will be wrapping up their projects and sharing […]

story + photos by Catherine Schmitt There is a long history of people watching and listening to birds on Mount […]

by Catherine Schmitt On May 18, 1927, William Procter encountered a bumble bee, trapped and preserved it, and added the […]

by Nick Fisichelli Reading stories on our website or following our social media posts may have you wondering, Why is […]

  This year, as part of the Landscape of Change project, we need everyone’s help documenting birds and pollinators (butterflies, […]

In the 1880s, the student naturalists of the Champlain Society surveyed the birds of Mount Desert Island during summer camping […]