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| River Herring Co-management in Downeast Maine College of the Atlantic |
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|  River Herring Co-management in Downeast Maine College of the Atlantic Description: A final project for College of the Atlantic's Fisheries, Fishermen, and Fishing Communities course 2023 |
| River Herring at Wight's Pond College of the Atlantic |
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|  River Herring at Wight's Pond College of the Atlantic Description: an outreach piece from College of the Atlantic's Fisheries, Fishermen, and Fishing Communities course 2023 |
| Leach's Storm-Petrel Distribution on Great Duck Island College of the Atlantic |
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|  Leach's Storm-Petrel Distribution on Great Duck Island College of the Atlantic 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] |
| Pulling Natures Linchpin: College of the Atlantic |
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|  Pulling Natures Linchpin: College of the Atlantic Description: A Study of Potential Correlations between Declining bat Populations and Modern Mosquito-born Epidemics | |
| River Herring in the Concord River Watershed College of the Atlantic |
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|  River Herring in the Concord River Watershed College of the Atlantic 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] |
| The Bale National Park: Harenna Forest, Ethiopia College of the Atlantic |
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|  The Bale National Park: Harenna Forest, Ethiopia College of the Atlantic Description: 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 |
| Nesting Sea Turtles on a Changing Caribbean Island College of the Atlantic |
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|  Nesting Sea Turtles on a Changing Caribbean Island College of the Atlantic 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] |
| From Lake to Sea: Winter Habitations of Common Loons College of the Atlantic |
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|  From Lake to Sea: Winter Habitations of Common Loons College of the Atlantic 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). |
| Interpreting the Songbirds of Great Duck Island, Maine College of the Atlantic |
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|  Interpreting the Songbirds of Great Duck Island, Maine College of the Atlantic 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. |
| J-Pod Southern Resident Killer Whale Movement College of the Atlantic |
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|  J-Pod Southern Resident Killer Whale Movement College of the Atlantic Description: How vessel traffic, chinook salmon, water quality, climate, and the navy impact how J-Pod moves throughout the Salish Sea |
| Northern Pacific Sound Pollution College of the Atlantic |
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|  Northern Pacific Sound Pollution College of the Atlantic 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. |
| Additions to the Arboretum of Eden College of the Atlantic |
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|  Additions to the Arboretum of Eden College of the Atlantic 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 |
| Project Scotland College of the Atlantic |
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|  Project Scotland College of the Atlantic Description: Natural Resource Management for Biodiversity. Understanding Scotland's protected habitats and their inhabitants. |
| Life on a Barren Rock (Mount Desert Rock) College of the Atlantic |
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|  Life on a Barren Rock (Mount Desert Rock) College of the Atlantic Description: Introducing the "Photosynthesizers" of Mount Desert Rock |
| Leach's Storm-Petrel Distribution on Great Duck Island College of the Atlantic |
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|  Leach's Storm-Petrel Distribution on Great Duck Island College of the Atlantic Description: Leach's Storm-Petrels (Hydrobates leucorhous) are Great Duck Island's most cryptic and most populous breeding seabird. |
| Tracking Great White Sharks in the Gulf of Maine College of the Atlantic |
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|  Tracking Great White Sharks in the Gulf of Maine College of the Atlantic 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. |
| On Track of the Pale Clouded Yellow Butterfly College of the Atlantic |
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|  On Track of the Pale Clouded Yellow Butterfly College of the Atlantic Description: Where it lives and how we might save it |
| Where Do Gulls Go? College of the Atlantic |
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|  Where Do Gulls Go? College of the Atlantic 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] |
| MDI Intertidal Species Relation with Sediment Types College of the Atlantic |
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|  MDI Intertidal Species Relation with Sediment Types College of the Atlantic Description: Intertidal species set themselves on sediment types based on feeding patterns and protection coverage from predators. | |
| Algal Blooms and Common Loons in Maine College of the Atlantic |
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|  Algal Blooms and Common Loons in Maine College of the Atlantic 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. |
| Finding the Birds of Mount Desert Island College of the Atlantic |
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|  Finding the Birds of Mount Desert Island College of the Atlantic 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 |
| Amphibian Crossings in Acadia National College of the Atlantic |
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|  Amphibian Crossings in Acadia National College of the Atlantic 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. |
| Warbler Sightings on MDI from 1993-2011 College of the Atlantic |
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|  Warbler Sightings on MDI from 1993-2011 College of the Atlantic Description: Warbler Sightings on MDI from 1993-2011. Source data from Michael Good via EBird |
| Coastal Marine Life History of Mount Desert Island 1903-2021 College of the Atlantic |
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|  Coastal Marine Life History of Mount Desert Island 1903-2021 College of the Atlantic 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] |
| Rockweed in Frenchman Bay College of the Atlantic |
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|  Rockweed in Frenchman Bay College of the Atlantic 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] |