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Extreme Trees – how do you manage the future forest?
by Catherine Devine, photos by Catherine Schmitt Stretching from Maine through New York, the Northern Forest is home to 2.3 […]

Welcome, 2023 ECP Crew
by Shannon O’Brien This summer, 14 new people arrived on campus to live and work in coastal Maine. The interns, […]

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, […]

Science Friday host to speak in Acadia on July 24, 2023
Winter Harbor, Maine – On Monday, July 24th, Schoodic Institute will host their annual Goldstein Lecture to convene and inspire […]

Wild turkeys on the rise
by Seth Benz + Kyle Lima If you’ve spent any time in Maine within the last decade, there’s a very […]

How to Save a Summit
story + photos by Catherine Schmitt Emma Lanning stared at a roped-off rectangle on the top of Cadillac Mountain, as […]

Dragonflies: The Canaries For Mercury In National Parks
from National Parks Traveler; written by Catherine Schmitt Editor’s note: Back in 2009 the University of Maine and the Schoodic […]

Coast Lines
by Catherine Schmitt Since 2019, we have been monitoring the effects of sea level rise on Mount Desert Island. We […]

Volunteer Opportunity: Record Bird Sounds in Acadia!
Are you interested in recording bird sounds in Acadia National Park? Join Schoodic Notes: Bird Sounds of Acadia’s Laura Sebastianelli […]

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 […]