Description: Pollinators such as wild bees and the Western honeybee, Apis mellifera, are important to humans and nature. Seventy-five percent of food crops and 90% of wild flowering plants benefit from animal pollinators (IPBES 2016).
Description: A collaborative public health project project, the All About Arsenic project was initiated in 2015 by researchers at Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory (MDIBL) and Dartmouth College’s Toxic Metals Superfund Research Program.
Description: An estimated 73 million sharks were killed last year, primarily for their fins. Their populations are at critical levels, and they are still being fished out of the oceans at unsustainable rates. Some regional populations of shark species are down to 95 - 99%, which is considered functional extinction.
Description: This GIS story map introduces you to Denmark and the current climate politics in the country. We will then have a look at Denmark in a global context and finally, examine how GIS can help us when we are "Planning for climate change in Denmark".
Description: According to the University of Hawaii’s Honolulu Climate Change Commission, Oahu is the most at risk from sea-level rise compared to all other Hawaiian islands. By the middle of the century, a report assembled by the commission warned that regular high tide flooding with 3.2ft of local sea-level rise would put 18 miles of coastal road and 4000 settlements at risk (Westfall, 2018).
Description: An exploration of the George B. Dorr Museum of Natural History collections and their origins. The Dorr Museum of Natural History is unique among museums in that its collections have been prepared entirely by students.
Description: Dengue, a mosquito-borne virus, has spread across the globe in recent years, now infecting an estimated 100-400 million people each year. Approximately forty percent of the world’s population lives in countries with a risk of dengue.
Description: The COA GIS website contains interactive GIS maps that can be customized and printed (PDF). The maps represent areas commonly visited on field trips and studied in classes. Maps include COA, MDI, the State and Gulf of Maine and whole world base maps.
Description: In this interview, student Sara Wagner, College of the Atlantic class of 2023, discusses her experience during the COVID-19 pandemic living in her home country of Italy. Use link in Web Resource field to access audio file.
Description: In this follow-up interview, student Micaela Sueldo Glattli, College of the Atlantic class of 2021, discusses navigating the holidays and graduation from college during the pandemic, as well as feeling about the vaccine. Use link in Web Resource field to access audio file.
Description: In this interview, student Micaela Sueldo Glattli, College of the Atlantic class of 2021, discusses her experiences during the early months of the COVID-19 global pandemic moving from Bar Harbor back home to Bolivia, while continuing classes virtually, and eventually finding a flight to Colombia to be with her partner. Use link in Web Resource field to access audio file.
Description: In this interview, alumnx Vanessa Taylor, College of the Atlantic class of 2019, returns for a 6-month follow up interview where she discusses finding work in Colombia, moving into an apartment with her partner, and continuing to navigate the pandemic. Use link in Web Resource field to access audio file.
Description: In this interview, student Vonnie Love, College of the Atlantic class of 2021, discusses her experience during the COVID-19 pandemic living in Florida and Washington, D.C. while attending remote classes. Use link in Web Resource field to access audio file.
Description: In this interview, alumnx Vanessa Taylor, College of the Atlantic class of 2019, shares her experience of leaving Bar Harbor, Maine to return to her home country of Colombia. Taylor speaks about working to complete her OPT (Optional Practical Training) abroad, quarantining with her father in a new apartment, all while navigating emotions around being apart from her partner, friends, and family, as well as the emotional toll of the pandemic. Use link in Web Resource field to access audio file. [show more]
Description: Developing our arboretum creates more records for future students to refer to, to analyze our campus inventory over time. Our current arboretum contains around 150 different species of woody specimens