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Two research technicians weigh rockweed in a bundle while sitting among the seaweed of the low tide
November 14, 2024

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 […]

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The Atlantic ocean peeps through the trees along the Schoodic Peninsula coast
November 12, 2024

With poetry and science, revising the language of land

by Catherine Schmitt This story was originally published by Maine Audubon in the Winter 2024 issue of Habitat. The other […]

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Sphagnum moss next to a boardwalk
November 7, 2024

Bogs, moss, and boardwalk thoughts

by Sekou Noble-Kuchera I often have realizations when walking on boardwalks. One afternoon, noticing the damp moss lining the Orono […]

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October 24, 2024

Untangling Conservation’s Complicated Roots

by Catherine Schmitt Beginning in the late nineteenth century, environmental, social, and demographic changes prompted both a conservation movement (to […]

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A person walks along a flooded path at the Ocearnarium in Bar Harbor while observing the impacts of sea level rise.
October 23, 2024

Storm Science Communication

Winter storms including Nor’easters have become both more frequent and more intense in the last 30 years, and are the […]

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A group of Schoodic Education Adventure (SEA) program staff gather for a group photo
October 22, 2024

Welcome to the fall SEAson

by Lauren Knierim; photo by Trevor Grandin As the days grew shorter and the air cooler, September brought not only […]

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Schoodic Point at dawn, facing east as the sun rises.
October 17, 2024

Mawoluhkahtine (Let’s Work Together)

by Catherine Schmitt From the deck of College of the Atlantic’s research vessel Osprey, the shores of Acadia National Park […]

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Illustrative graphic cover art for the Sea to Trees podcast, showing illustration of a tree in the foreground, and in the background is a small cover at lowtide with the ocean's horizon line in the background. A cool color palette is used, mainly blues, grays, deep greens.
October 16, 2024

Sea to Trees: Season 3 Premiere

by Trevor Grandin Sea to Trees is a podcast that tells the stories of the science happening in and around […]

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Sunlight washes over ferns under a dense canopy of dark trees
October 11, 2024

Northern Botany for a Southern Biologist

by Kate Jackson We were rambling across the boardwalk that circumnavigated Jordan Pond. The waters of the lake were crystalline, […]

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Three members of the 2024 Forest Health Monitoring Crew pose for a photo on the porch of the Isle au Haut Ranger Station
September 30, 2024

Long term forest health monitoring at Isle au Haut

by Lucy Enders Isle au Haut is an island located six miles off the coast of Maine in Penobscot Bay. […]

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