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2082
  • Map
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
Landscape of Change
  • https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/dcb1b25509e64b628ce40c5ae7ed4675
Description:
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]
2035
  • Map
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
328: Response, Rehab, Release
  • https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/e081afb9f3644cf79f28d9768e22a416
Description:
The rehabilitation story of seal #328, a juvenile harbor seal rescued from Cape Elizabeth, ME.
2379
  • Map
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
Interpreting the Songbirds of Great Duck Island, Maine
  • https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/ef89019fa2624ab5903813387c49fe19
Description:
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.
2283
  • Map
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
Where Do Gulls Go?
  • storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/2eb6e0e367214f73b31a6a6a9e33dd40
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Herring gulls are found around the world, not only by the sea, despite often being called "seagulls". There is debate over the herring gull's taxonomic status. American ornithologists lump herring gulls in North America and Europe, while European ornithologists split them. They are often described as scavengers, though there is evidence that individual herring gulls specialize on particular food sources (intertidal, aquaculture, ocean, anthropogenic, freshwater). [show more]
2281
  • Map
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
Algal Blooms and Common Loons in Maine
  • storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/61825e884336499683efd1c5af9d1812
Description:
Maine has over 6,000 lakes and ponds. These waterbodies are home to a wide range of wildlife and plant species. Maintaining high water quality in Maine’s lakes and ponds is essential to protect the health of these habitats and the species that use them.
2280
  • Map
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
Finding the Birds of Mount Desert Island
  • storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/99604977985944cf83a43cb9ca247a59
Description:
The goal of this project was to identify birding hotspots on Mount Desert Island. To do this, I used data from eBird to determine which birds are most common in each sector. The sectors are areas used by birders during the annual Christmas Bird Count . Birding hotspots are areas that birders go to frequently
2286
  • Map
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
On Track of the Pale Clouded Yellow Butterfly
  • storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/ab563bf4db484e9d8a7fd20d76697aa6
Description:
Where it lives and how we might save it
2284
  • Image, Photograph, Transparency, Slide Transparency
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
Mount Desert Rock Oceanography Survey
  • storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/cbd13a6342694d7790f283ea9025e2d3
Description:
A look at oceanographic data around Mount Desert Rock for the 2019 and 2021 seasons
2293
  • Map
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
Tracking Great White Sharks in the Gulf of Maine
  • storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/cc87e70fa052487dba9823da0a0a0f28
Description:
Acoustic Receivers are monitoring devices that listen for specific sound wavelengths. When these soundwaves are detected a data point is stored and categorized under a unique ID.
2282
  • Map
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
MDI Intertidal Species Relation with Sediment Types
  • storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/d21ffa9be3264eca94125a1c6707a930
Description:
Intertidal species set themselves on sediment types based on feeding patterns and protection coverage from predators.
2276
  • Map
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
Amphibian Crossings in Acadia National
  • storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/ff342438ce9a49f99b91739658a19909
Description:
Roads often intersect the habitat between forests and wetlands, leaving migrating amphibians with no choice but to cross the road. Unfortunately, many amphibians are killed by vehicles when they migrate across roads. These animals' small size and slow movements make them difficult to see from a car.
2156
  • Map
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
Warbler Sightings on MDI from 1993-2011
Description:
Warbler Sightings on MDI from 1993-2011. Source data from Michael Good via EBird
1750
  • Image, Photograph, Digital Photograph
  • Nature, Plants
Cutting down 21 European Black Pine trees
Description:
21 European Black Pine trees being cut down along the edge of COA campus and Route 3 during the Route 3 expansion project.
2058
  • Map
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
Fish Passage Assessment of Mount Desert Island
Description:
An assessment of streams broken by culverts, dams, and bridges
2060
  • Map
  • Nature, Plants
Japanese Barberry on the COA Campus
Description:
A survey and map of Japanese Barberry on the COA Campus
2061
  • Map
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
Town of Bar Harbor Shellfish Management Map
Description:
Official Town Shellfish Management Map
2062
  • Map
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
Nest Site Selection of the Black Guillemot on Great Duck island
Description:
Nesting sites along the rocky berm of Great Duck Island.
2063
  • Map
  • Nature, Plants
College of the Atlantic Seaside Garden Map
Description:
A map based on a DJI Phantom drone flight.
2064
  • Map
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
Finding Travel Distances of Snakes to Islands on the Coast of Maine
Description:
These maps show attempts to find the shortest distances across the water makes would have to travel from the mainland to various islands.
2068
  • Map
  • Nature, Plants
The Taunton Bay Study: Eelgrass 1955-2005
Description:
Changes in Eelgrass over time in Taunton Bay, headwaters of Frenchman Bay
2072
  • Map
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
Distribution of Four Ground-Dwelling Arthropod Families
Description:
Distribution of Four Ground-Dwelling Arthropod Families in Traps Across Pine Hill and Settlement Quarry, Deer Isle, Maine
2079
  • Map
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
A Predictive Model for Common Loon Productivity on Mount Desert Island
Description:
Based on Aquatic Parameters, Nest Site Suitability, Nursery Cove Availability, and Human Use.
2081
  • Map
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
Maine Oyster Trail Pilot Project, Damariscotta River
Description:
A Map showing land use, waterfront access, and other factors important to Oyster aquiculture.