Marine Ecology
Adapting to Change, with Science (Part 3)
Introduction America Adapts, the Climate Change Podcast and its host, Doug Parsons, visited Schoodic Institute to learn more about our […]
Counting Clam Siphon Holes
by Hannah Webber photos by Claire Wiley A new research project at Schoodic Institute may be of interest to those […]
Signs of Resilience in Rockweed Beds
by Hannah Webber Humans are terrestrial. We dwell on land, and think about the world from a terrestrial perspective, and […]
On Crows and the Coastal Squeeze
by Hannah Webber Crows eat everything. It’s in their nature. Learning that they eat green sea urchins, however, has been […]
Teamwork and the Rockweed Burrito
by Natalia Portales We are sifting through rockweed like combing through hair, trying to find the holdfast, where the seaweed is […]
Getting Closer To Managing Rockweed As An Ecosystem
People harvest a variety of seaweed (macroalgae) species in Maine, including and especially rockweed (Ascophyllum nodosum). Rockweed grows in abundance […]
Do barnacles have brains? Rethinking scientific definitions
story + photos by Abigail Bar, Schoodic Institute Ecology Technician Throughout the field season I have been studying rockweed (a […]
My Surprising Journey into the Realm of Science
by Abby Omaña, photos by Catherine Wang and Catherine Schmitt Recently, reflecting upon my first three years of college, I […]
Creating a spectral library of coastal vegetation
The Maine coast is more than mineral rock and sand. There is vegetation here, too: rockweeds and other algae, seagrass, […]
The ‘Us’ in Ecosystem
by Maya Pelletier This is a story about Maine’s rocky intertidal ecosystem. An ecosystem is a complex network of living […]