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| Identifier | Type | Subject | Title | Web Resource | |
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| 2280 |
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| Finding the Birds of Mount Desert Island |
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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 |
| 2380 |
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| From Lake to Sea: Winter Habitations of Common Loons |
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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). |
| 2050 |
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| Geology and Humanity of Oahu |
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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). |
| 2041 |
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| Global Restrictions on Shark Finning |
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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. |
| 2031 |
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| Golfing Green |
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| 2273 |
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| Ground Mounted PV Solar Suitability on Mount Desert Island |
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Description: A suitability analysis of open land for ground-mounted solar |
| 2038 |
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| Gulls of the Gulf of Maine |
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| 2388 |
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| Hancock County Maine Aerial Image, 2020 |
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Description: A 2020 leaf-off aerial image with 45cm resolution. From Maine GIS. |
| 2288 |
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| Hancock County's Fragmented Farmland |
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Description: An exploration of current and possible agricultural land on this coastal county in Maine. |
| 2048 |
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| Horse Healthcare in Maine |
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Description: The USDA reported a shortage of veterinarians in at least 500 counties spanning 44 states. This shortage is mostly in rural areas and therefore has a larger effect on large animals and livestock. American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) reported that only 10% of graduates had an interest in working with livestock. |
| 2394 |
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| Housing Inventory and Usage Analysis of Bar Harbor, ME |
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Description: High number of tourist every summer and the popularity of Bar Harbor are raising the prices of housing on Bar Harbor making it difficult to find affordable houses; especially for people who want to live in Bar Harbor year round, as the incentives to rent out housing to tourists are high. To understand better how to tackle this housing crisis it is important to understand the housing situation in Bar Harbor better, to later be able to find the right locations for future housing development. [show more] |
| 2032 |
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| Housing: The New Luxury |
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Description: The affordable housing crisis in vacation towns is pushing the locals and workers elsewhere. And the solutions are not so simple |
| 2039 |
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| How to Bee in Maine |
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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). |
| 2287 |
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| How to Shred Without Getting Shredded |
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Description: Avalanche Awareness in the Washington Backcountry |
| 2291 |
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| Intense Precipitation in Acadia National Park |
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Description: The damage caused by increasingly strong storms because of climate change. |
| 2379 |
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| Interpreting the Songbirds of Great Duck Island, Maine |
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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. |
| 2376 |
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| J-Pod Southern Resident Killer Whale Movement |
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Description: How vessel traffic, chinook salmon, water quality, climate, and the navy impact how J-Pod moves throughout the Salish Sea |
| 2033 |
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| Lake Erie Microplastics |
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Description: an interactive look at Lake Erie and its watershed using data that Adam collected |
| 2082 |
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| Landscape of Change |
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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] |
| 2361 |
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| Leach's Storm-Petrel Distribution on Great Duck Island |
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Description: Leach's Storm-Petrels (Hydrobates leucorhous) are Great Duck Island's most cryptic and most populous breeding seabird. |
| 2390 |
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| Leach's Storm-Petrel Distribution on Great Duck Island |
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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] |
| 2396 |
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| Lead in taps from public water sources |
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Description: This story map provides a brief presentation and discussion of the water quality data collected from 43 taps on the COA campus during 2022. While 28 elements were included in the test, the report focuses mainly on lead levels from various campus taps. |
| 2363 |
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| Life on a Barren Rock (Mount Desert Rock) |
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Description: Introducing the "Photosynthesizers" of Mount Desert Rock |
| 2382 |
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| Lost Trails of Mount Desert Island |
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Description: The history of the trail system on Mount Desert Island is complex, dense, and vast. There were many people who were vital to the creation of the hundreds of trails that exist and have existed on Mount Desert Island. Both organizations and individuals contributed to the planning, building, and maintenance of the trails that make up Acadia National Park. |
| 2282 |
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| MDI Intertidal Species Relation with Sediment Types |
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Description: Intertidal species set themselves on sediment types based on feeding patterns and protection coverage from predators. |
