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2276
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  • Nature, Animals, Birds
Amphibian Crossings in Acadia National
  • storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/ff342438ce9a49f99b91739658a19909
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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.
2282
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  • Nature, Animals, Birds
MDI Intertidal Species Relation with Sediment Types
  • storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/d21ffa9be3264eca94125a1c6707a930
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Intertidal species set themselves on sediment types based on feeding patterns and protection coverage from predators.
2293
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  • 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.
2284
  • Image, Photograph, Transparency, Slide Transparency
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
Mount Desert Rock Oceanography Survey
  • storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/cbd13a6342694d7790f283ea9025e2d3
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A look at oceanographic data around Mount Desert Rock for the 2019 and 2021 seasons
2286
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  • 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
2280
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  • Nature, Animals, Birds
Finding the Birds of Mount Desert Island
  • storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/99604977985944cf83a43cb9ca247a59
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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
2281
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  • 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.
2283
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  • Nature, Animals, Birds
Where Do Gulls Go?
  • storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/2eb6e0e367214f73b31a6a6a9e33dd40
Description:
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]
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.
2035
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  • 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.
2082
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  • 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]
2363
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  • 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
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]
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
2384
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  • Nature, Animals, Birds
River Herring in the Concord River Watershed
  • https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/a61c71d38b2c4701acdd4f0ef9ecc2f5
Description:
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]
2143
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  • Nature, Animals, Birds
Coastal Marine Life History of Mount Desert Island 1903-2021
  • https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/a3808235a39342cb8e5b19359eb893e8
Description:
Mount Desert Island, located off the east coast of Maine, is completely surrounded by intertidal environments. Throughout the 1900s, data was collected and recorded in notebooks regarding intertidal life by numerous researchers, followed by entry into a spreadsheet by Michael Hays, a citizen scientist who worked with the MDIBL (Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory). In present day, these data can be put into a map thanks to ArcGIS Pro. These data includes large amounts of information regarding marine life around the coastal environments of MDI, such as species common and Latin names, locations observed (where on the island along with Lat. and Long.), observation year, along with some brief notes about each observation. [show more]
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
2381
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  • Nature, Animals, Birds
Nesting Sea Turtles on a Changing Caribbean Island
  • https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/a08e4636ef6945b0a1a93820bcb334ca
Description:
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]
2380
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  • Nature, Animals, Birds
From Lake to Sea: Winter Habitations of Common Loons
  • https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/9d16a5709445491794a8fa019ad572bf
Description:
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).
2361
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  • Nature, Animals, Birds
Leach's Storm-Petrel Distribution on Great Duck Island
  • https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/8ce6941d13fe4a679b793f2155573e48
Description:
Leach's Storm-Petrels (Hydrobates leucorhous) are Great Duck Island's most cryptic and most populous breeding seabird.
2390
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  • 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]
2047
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  • Nature, Animals, Birds
Cheetahs in Southern Africa
  • https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/6436911413e44964ab03a60c2e55fb25
Description:
Under the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) 's, cheetahs are listed as vulnerable. This status means the species is likely to become endangered unless the circumstances threatening its survival and reproduction of the species improve. Due to recent studies showing a significant decline in current cheetah numbers, scientists have started calling for the species to be up-listed to endangered status under the IUCN.
2377
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  • Nature, Animals, Birds
Northern Pacific Sound Pollution
  • https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/48c025dd8f1c4b61b00082b75ef383df
Description:
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
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  • Nature, Animals, Birds
J-Pod Southern Resident Killer Whale Movement
  • https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/432861e7720947e79c8b05f12eb460bc
Description:
How vessel traffic, chinook salmon, water quality, climate, and the navy impact how J-Pod moves throughout the Salish Sea
2398
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  • Nature, Animals, Birds
River Herring Co-management in Downeast Maine
  • https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/1d6e545864c048b9a64f4b2ccb94df16
Description:
A final project for College of the Atlantic's Fisheries, Fishermen, and Fishing Communities course 2023