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2082
  • Map
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
Landscape of Change
  • https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/dcb1b25509e64b628ce40c5ae7ed4675
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Exploring the Past to Build a Resilient Future To understand how climate change is affecting Mount Desert Island we need to look to the past. Our ancestors documented the natural world around them in stories, reports, journals, diaries, and letters, which are cared for in the collections of history museums and libraries. Increasingly, scientists are pulling observations and data from historic records to get a clearer picture of the natural world of the past to understand how the present is changing. [show more]
2361
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  • Nature, Animals, Birds
Leach's Storm-Petrel Distribution on Great Duck Island
  • https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/8ce6941d13fe4a679b793f2155573e48
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Leach's Storm-Petrels (Hydrobates leucorhous) are Great Duck Island's most cryptic and most populous breeding seabird.
2364
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  • Nature, Animals, Birds
Project Scotland
  • https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/04cc7cf98ec04fbabb0380d9339db30f
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Natural Resource Management for Biodiversity. Understanding Scotland's protected habitats and their inhabitants.
2377
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  • Nature, Animals, Birds
Northern Pacific Sound Pollution
  • https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/48c025dd8f1c4b61b00082b75ef383df
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The longest distance a human shout has been heard from is just over 10 miles, and that scream happened over a lake. Researchers have estimated that a whale scream, or more so a song, can be heard from over 10,000 miles away! Though we can't always hear these songs because of their low frequencies, whales can listen and respond to each other from oceans away.
2376
  • Map
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
J-Pod Southern Resident Killer Whale Movement
  • https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/432861e7720947e79c8b05f12eb460bc
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How vessel traffic, chinook salmon, water quality, climate, and the navy impact how J-Pod moves throughout the Salish Sea
2381
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  • Nature, Animals, Birds
Nesting Sea Turtles on a Changing Caribbean Island
  • https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/a08e4636ef6945b0a1a93820bcb334ca
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The Buck Island Sea Turtle Research Program (BISTRP) is a long-term sea turtle monitoring project that focuses on nesting sea turtles in the Caribbean. BISTRP was initiated by the National Park Service in 1988 after Buck Island was identified as an important nesting beach for sea turtles, in particular for the critically endangered Hawksbill sea turtle. Since 1988, the program has conducted annual monitoring of the nesting sea turtles on Buck Island with the goal of identifying each nesting female, collecting biological data, and tracking nest success on the island. [show more]
2384
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  • Nature, Animals, Birds
River Herring in the Concord River Watershed
  • https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/a61c71d38b2c4701acdd4f0ef9ecc2f5
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Since long ago, each spring the River Herring swam up the Concord, Sudbury and Assabet Rivers (SUASCO) in unfathomable numbers to spawn. Their numbers turned the sluggish river turbulent with movement, and their masses colored the water black. Nipmuc, Pawtucket, and Massachuset people, their ancestors before them, and later English colonists, treasured these runs for food and fertilizer, and many seasonal communities were once situated at ideal fishing places. The industrial revolution came with largely little heed to the fish or those that used them. [show more]
2380
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  • Nature, Animals, Birds
From Lake to Sea: Winter Habitations of Common Loons
  • https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/9d16a5709445491794a8fa019ad572bf
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The Common Loon (Gavia immer) has historically been used as an indicator species during it's summer breeding season. More specifically, loons have been used as an indicator for heavy metals, biocontamination, and acidity (Canadian Lakes Loon Survey).
2379
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  • Nature, Animals, Birds
Interpreting the Songbirds of Great Duck Island, Maine
  • https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/ef89019fa2624ab5903813387c49fe19
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Songbirds use islands for breeding and migrating. Great Duck Island is located 10 miles from Mount Desert Island, Maine; it is about 200 acres large and consists of a variety of habitat types.
2383
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  • Nature, Animals, Birds
The Bale National Park: Harenna Forest, Ethiopia
  • https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/a36af62382064657a1b704de1a770dc9
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The Harenna forest is the largest cloud forest in Ethiopia, located in the southern region of the Bale mountain range. 60⁰ 20' and 60⁰ 50'N
2387
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  • Nature, Animals, Birds
Pulling Natures Linchpin:
  • https://coagis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=ab565dbb28684267922e0ed8e18a5fe8
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A Study of Potential Correlations between Declining bat Populations and Modern Mosquito-born Epidemics
2390
  • Map
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
Leach's Storm-Petrel Distribution on Great Duck Island
  • https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/8ce6941d13fe4a679b793f2155573e48
Description:
Great Duck Island (GDI) is a 91-hectare island lying 13 kilometers south of Mount Desert Island in the Gulf of Maine. GDI has a long history of human occupation, and has been farmed, grazed, and lived upon since the early 19th century. Today, approximately 85 hectares of the island are co-owned by TNC and the state of Maine and has been managed as a preserve since 1985. There is a small private inholding on the north end of the island, and the remaining five hectares are owned by the College of the Atlantic (COA). COA manages the Alice Eno Field Station out of the light station on the south end of the island, where students have conducted regular research on the ecology of the island since 1999 (Anderson 2018) [show more]
2397
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  • Nature, Animals, Birds
River Herring at Wight's Pond
  • https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/c1ce96dbcab44f758bf6542c5dfafc73#n-Ly4fd3
Description:
an outreach piece from College of the Atlantic's Fisheries, Fishermen, and Fishing Communities course 2023
2398
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  • Nature, Animals, Birds
River Herring Co-management in Downeast Maine
  • https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/1d6e545864c048b9a64f4b2ccb94df16
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A final project for College of the Atlantic's Fisheries, Fishermen, and Fishing Communities course 2023
2142
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  • Nature, Plants
Rockweed in Frenchman Bay
  • http://bit.ly/RockweedFrenchmanBay
Description:
Rockweed is a brown algae found on rocky shores. The most common types of rockweed are within the genus Ascophyllum spp. and Fucus spp. (the latter is shown to the left). They grow slowly and can live from 3 to 15 years before breakage. Rockweeds have fronds that bear air bladders. These 'airbags' help the algae to stand up straight under water. Rockweed lacks true roots, stems, and leaves, and because they lack a vascular system, absorb dissolved nutrients directly through the blades. Rockweed attaches to rocks with a disc-like “holdfast”, and regenerate fronds from remaining holdfasts after a natural disturbance that removes upright fronds. [show more]
1750
  • Image, Photograph, Digital Photograph
  • Nature, Plants
Cutting down 21 European Black Pine trees
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21 European Black Pine trees being cut down along the edge of COA campus and Route 3 during the Route 3 expansion project.
2045
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  • Nature, Plants
The Dynamic Forest Cover of Great Duck Island
  • https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/d708fcf0bf1941f7b0880b31c3d9fc55
Description:
Great Duck Island is a 237-acre island 15 km south of Mount Desert Island, Maine. It served as a manned Coast Guard lighthouse post from 1890 until 1986 when it was automated. Sheep grazed the island from the late 19th century until 1951, dramatically impacting the landscape and ecology of the island. In 1985, the Nature Conservancy and the State of Maine gained control of most of the island, collaborating with the College of the Atlantic Eno Research Station to monitor the ecology of the land. [show more]
2057
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  • Nature, Plants
Studying Land Features using Drone Imagery
  • https://coagis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=0cf2adf182f84d6bbd4ca1f258c5e214
Description:
Studying Chlorophyll Concentration and Land Classification using Drone Imagery
2060
  • Map
  • Nature, Plants
Japanese Barberry on the COA Campus
Description:
A survey and map of Japanese Barberry on the COA Campus
2063
  • Map
  • Nature, Plants
College of the Atlantic Seaside Garden Map
Description:
A map based on a DJI Phantom drone flight.
2068
  • Map
  • Nature, Plants
The Taunton Bay Study: Eelgrass 1955-2005
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Changes in Eelgrass over time in Taunton Bay, headwaters of Frenchman Bay
2363
  • Map
  • Nature, Plants
Life on a Barren Rock (Mount Desert Rock)
  • https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/d82c9cb0d83145fcb7d6292983014047
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Introducing the "Photosynthesizers" of Mount Desert Rock
2365
  • Map
  • Nature, Plants
Additions to the Arboretum of Eden
  • https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/05d1aba440544fd4ad20cf6e2bb88b8c
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