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Researcher Caroline Kanaskie measures a pitch pine on Dorr Mountain in Acadia National Park.
September 7, 2023

In the pines with Caroline Kanaskie

by Catherine Devine, photos by Catherine Schmitt Caroline Kanaskie hiked up Dorr Mountain with an even gate. It was clear […]

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Sunlight shines on several sundew leaves and moss.
August 29, 2023

In the den of sundew

story + photos by Ella Halbert This July, I found myself squashing through a bed of sphagnum moss in Schoodic […]

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Pond Island, Maine at low tide
August 3, 2023

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 […]

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Sunset on the Schoodic Peninsula
July 27, 2023

Remembering two dear friends of Schoodic Institute

Loss is hard. Recently, Schoodic Institute lost two familiar faces; people dear to our staff, board, and members of our […]

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Group photo of the 2023 Acadia Early-Career Fellows
July 27, 2023

Announcing the 2023 Acadia Early-Career Fellows

Winter Harbor – Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park is pleased to announce the 2023 Cathy and Jim Gero Acadia Early-Career […]

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a pink and yellow moth rests in a yellow flower
July 26, 2023

Moth Magic

story + photos by Catherine Schmitt It could be easy to mistake the insect for a flower, to mistake the […]

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Main entrance to the Welcome Center at Rockefeller Hall on the Schoodic Institute campus.
July 24, 2023

Welcome Center to close at 3:00pm on Monday, July 24th

The Welcome Center at Schoodic Institute will close at 3:00pm today (Monday, July 24th) in anticipation of our 2023 Goldstein […]

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A group of scientists, researchers, and volunteers help to plant tree seedlings on the Schoodic Institute campus.
July 17, 2023

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 […]

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Group photo of Schoodic Institute's early career crew (six people stand in the back row, with four kneeling in the front row).
July 14, 2023

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, […]

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Coastal vegetation
July 7, 2023

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, […]

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