Sunset, Schoodic Point, Acadia National Park, Feb 2, 2015
Setting sun over calm seas with deep drifted snow at Schoodic Point in Acadia National Park, Maine.
River otters on the shore of Schoodic Point in Acadia National Park, Maine.
A mother river otter with three pups rolling on rockweed shortly after climbing out of the ocean at Schoodic Point in Acadia National Park.
Schoodic Woods Campground, Acadia National Park
Schoodic Woods Campground, Acadia National Park, Maine. This is a bike ride through the campground. Details here: campbase.com/schoodic-woods-campground-acadia-np
Allen Workman Schoodic Point: History on the Edge of Acadia National Park
Allen Workman, author of Schoodic Point: History on the Edge of Acadia National Park, charts a course through Schoodic Point’s evolution, ecology, challenges and preservation at Schoodic Institute’s Moore Auditorium.
Mr. Workman has lived in the shadow of beautiful Schoodic Point since age fourteen. He has been a member of the historical societies of Maine, MDI, and Schoodic Peninsula, serving as Secretary of the Gouldsboro society. For some time he has been actively tracing the history of the Schoodic Peninsula region, giving occasional talks on the changing landscape of this most enchanting section of Acadia National Park.
His slide talk focuses on the value and interest in surveying the distinctive changes that have happened in a seemingly timeless landscape like Schoodic's. His slide images give us a look at the evolving human ecology affecting swings between development and preservation here, and at human influences on the processes of ecological change at Schoodic.
Copies of Mr. Workman’s new book are available in Winter Harbor at the 5 & 10, Works of Hand in Winter Harbor, and Chapter Two in Corea.
In Celebration of Open Space
Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park pursues collaborative solutions to critical environmental problems through discovery and learning. In 2018 we worked with organizations and volunteers from Maine, the United States, and more than 19 different countries to enhance our understanding of the land and seascapes of Acadia National Park and surrounding areas. After volunteers spent time outside walking, observing, and recording data, we asked, what does open space mean to you?
Film by Tate Yoder
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Morning sunlight shining through surf at Schoodic Point in Acadia National Park
Schoodic Institute and Acadia National Park - Celebrating Partnership
Celebrating Partnership, Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park, w. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell:
Complete video coverage of an event celebrating the partnership between Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park and the National Park Service. Focuses on the importance of science education and research in a time of rapid environmental change. Featuring a keynote presentation by U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell. Welcome and introduction by Schoodic Institute Chairman Alan Goldstein and President & CEO Mark Berry. Remarks by David Rockefeller, Jr., Acadia National Park Superintendent Sheridan Steele, National Park Foundation President & CEO Neil Mulholland, and Director of the National Park Service Jon Jarvis.
Joe LaCasce - Go with the Flow: Studying transport in the ocean
Go with the Flow: Studying transport in the ocean
July 28, 2015, Moore Auditorium, Schoodic Education and Research Center Campus, Winter Harbor, Maine
Joe LaCasce, University of Oslo
“Go With the Flow”
Tom Rossby, University of Rhode Island
”History of Float Experiments”
Jim Manning, NOAA
“Drifters for Lobsters Studies”
Tamay Ozgokmen, University of Miami
“Deepwater Horizon Spill
LAPCOD (Lagrangian Analysis and Prediction of Coastal and Ocean Dynamics) is an international group of researchers who study the turbulent motion of particles in the ocean. Examples include the drift of pollutants (oil, radioactive plume), of biological material (plankton, red tide) and even of heat (as in the “global ocean conveyor belt”). As illustrated by the catastrophic 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, these flows can have major societal impacts, so it is imperative that scientists understand how to predict where pollutants go.
The LAPCOD researchers have a variety of backgrounds (oceanography, mathematics and physics) and hail from diverse places, including the United States, Italy, Norway, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. This is the 6th LAPCOD meeting, following three meetings in Europe (Italy and France) and two in Florida. This year, 55 researchers will meet at the Schoodic Institute in the last week of July to discuss the latest developments in the field.
On Tuesday, July 28, 2015 at 7:00pm, the LAPCOD researchers will open their discussion to the public with a free presentation, entitled “Go with the Flow: Studying Transport in the Ocean.” The Schoodic Institute invites the local community to join in the discussion and interact with these extraordinary scientists. The presentation will be held in Moore Auditorium at the Schoodic Education and Research Center campus near Schoodic Point in Winter Harbor.
“We are pleased to host this world-renowned group of researchers,” said Mark Berry, president and CEO of Schoodic Institute, a nonprofit partner of the National Park Service that manages the Schoodic Education and Research Center campus at Schoodic Point. “This is an inspiring environment for collaboration, and a great example of the partnership between Schoodic Institute and the National Park Service to attract high-quality, relevant research and education opportunities to Maine and Acadia National Park.”
Topics to be covered include the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon spill, new observational techniques, and the analysis of those observations. Some LAPCOD group members are studying the dispersal of eel larvae in the North Atlantic while others are looking at the dispersion of floats 1 km below the surface in the icy waters around Antarctica. “Indeed, one of the attractions of Lagrangian analysis is the very wide range of phenomena it encompasses,” said LAPCOD 2015 Meeting Organizer, Joe LaCasce from the University of Oslo, Norway. “The discussions this week at Schoodic will be lively and at the forefront of the field.”
LAPCOD 2015 is sponsored by the Consortium for Advanced Research on Transport of Hydrocarbon in the Environment (CARTHE) through a grant from the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI).
Plants on Maine’s Offshore Islands: Glen Mittelhauser
Plants on Maine’s Offshore Islands: Glen Mittelhauser
Join Schoodic Institute June 7, 2016 for a public presentation by Glen Mittelhauser: Maine’s island habitats are experiencing rapid changes. Mittelhauser has conducted research on the flowering plants along the eastern Maine coast over the past 25 years. Come learn how past changes have influenced the flowering plants that currently occur on Maine islands, and gain insights into the potential effects of current and future changes.
This event begins at 7:00 p.m. in Moore Auditorium on the Schoodic Institute campus, and is free and open to the public.
Glen Mittelhauser is the Director of the Maine Natural History Observatory with an office in Gouldsboro, Maine. Maine Natural History Observatory is a nonprofit organization established in 2003 to help further the knowledge and understanding of Maine’s flora and fauna.
Recorded at Moore Auditorium on June 7, 2016 on the campus of Schoodic Education and Research Center in Winter Harbor Maine.
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Songs: Spirit in the Sky By: Norman Greenbaum , Take Me Home, Country Roads By: John Denver , Have You Ever Seen The Rain By: Creedence Clearwater Revival
Duncan Martin, Artist, at Schoodic Institute July 12, 2016
Artist Duncan Martin debuts National Parks Paintings -
An exhibition of selected canvases that artist Duncan Martin painted over the course of five years as part of his “58 in 58” series depicting all of the 59 national parks in the the United States debuts on Tuesday, July 12th in Moore Auditorium on the Schoodic Institute campus. Titled “Into a Large Place,” the opening reception will take place from 5 – 7:00 p.m, and includes refreshments as well as an artist’s lecture and power point presentation by Martin about his 59 month painting odyssey. The presentation begins at 6 pm.
The “58 in 58” project involved Martin painting his way through all 59 national parks in the course of as many months, and was completed earlier this year in time for the Centennial celebrations of both Acadia National Park and the National Parks Services. Known for his sumptuous landscape paintings, which are reminiscent of Marsden Hartley and the California Impressionists, Martin began the project in March of 2011 in Canyonlands National Park and concluded the tour in February 2016.
Hal Borns Lecture - Maine Ice Age Trail 2-11-2017
Lecture: Maine Ice Age Trail by Hal Borns.
Join Dr. Borns to learn about how the history of the melting of an ice sheet that extended across northern Canada to the coast of Maine at the end of the last ice age is recorded by wonderfully exposed glacier and glacial-marine land forms in your back yard or, maybe, along your commute to work. Dr. Borns will explain how this event has not only shaped of coastal landscape, but also documents a major, hemispheric-wide change in climate. Dr. Borns is Founder and Director of the Climate change Institute.
Recorded at Moore Auditorium, Schoodic Institute campus on Saturday, February 11, 2017
Main Streets and Back Roads: Maine's Schoodic Peninsula
Mount Desert Island is a magnet for hikers, campers and sightseers. The Schoodic Peninsula – not so much. Surprising, because the two places have so much in common, including stunning coastal views and untamed forests. The difference: the Schoodic has no crowds.
Alice Kelley - Lost to the Sea: Maine’s Ancient Coastal Heritage
October 6 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Schoodic Institute invites the public to an evening presentation Friday, October 6, 2017 presented by Alice Kelley, Climate Change institute, University of Maine.
Currently, Maine is losing an important cultural and paleoenvironmental record as virtually all of the State’s 2,000+ shell middens are eroded by climate-change induced sea level rise. Composed largely of clam and oyster shells, these features also contain artifacts and faunal remains that record up to 5,000 years of past lifeways and environmental data for the coastal Gulf of Maine. With each storm, more is lost to the waves. A Maine Sea Grant funded project at the University of Maine is looking at ways to rapidly assess the condition of existing middens and develop strategies to monitor and rescue erosion loss of these important archives of the past.
Schoodic Peninsula & Downeast Maine
Schoodic Peninsula
Schoodic Peninsula near Acadia National Park
Schoodic Peninsula: Acadia's Hidden Gem
Just an hour from Bar Harbor, the Schoodic can seem like a wild, distant place.
Blue Jays: American Chestnut Tree Planters, Presentation by Bernd Heinrich
Wednesday, August 13, 2014 - 7:00pm at Moore Auditorium, on the Schoodic Education and Research Center Campus in Winter Harbor, Maine.
Bernd Heinrich, one of America's foremost naturalists and most popular natural history writers, will describe his intriguing new research into birds and forest ecology in a talk entitled, Blue Jays: American Chestnut Tree Planters, at 7 p.m. at Moore Auditorium. Bernd, who lives in western Maine, is a professor emeritus of biology at the University of Vermont and the John Burroughs- and PEN New England-award-winning author of nearly 20 nature and science books, including best-sellers such as Mind of the Raven, Winter World and Why We Run. His book The Homing Instinct: Meaning and Mystery in Animal Migration was released in April, and he is currently writing another book on birds, due out in 2015. Bernd's talks are always filled with insight, humor and a sense of wonder at the marvels of the natural world, and this will be no exception. You'll never look at a blue jay the same way! After his talk Bernd will field questions and stick around to chat and sign books. More than a dozen of Bernd's watercolor bird paintings for his next book will be on display at the Seal Harbor Naturalist's Notebook all summer. His talk is being co-sponsored by The Schoodic Institute and The Naturalist's Notebook.
The Naturalist’s Notebook is a shop and exploratorium in Seal Harbor and Northeast Harbor that takes visitors on a 13.8-billion-year exploration of the universe and has been named a Best of New England travel destination by Yankee Magazine and Best of Maine by Down East.
The Schoodic Institute is a 501c3 nonprofit committed to guiding present and future generations to greater understanding and respect for nature by providing research and learning opportunities through its outstanding Acadia National Park setting, unique coastal Maine facilities, and innovative partnership programs.
Schoodic Peninsula: Local Flavors
Have you tried dulse? How about a pickled wrinkle?
Ted Ames - Are Alewives Key to Rebuilding Our Coastal Cod Stocks?
Public presentation: “Are Alewives key to rebuilding our coastal cod stocks?”
September 8 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Recorded at Moore Auditorium on the campus of Schoodic Education and Research Center.
Ted Ames, fisherman and historical fisheries ecology researcher, is a co-founder of Penobscot East Resource Center. He set up and directed Penobscot East’s Zone C Lobster Hatchery and is a member of the Board of Directors. Using his trademark approach of integrating fishery science and fishermen’s knowledge, Ted has published several peer-reviewed articles on groundfish stock structure, prey, and essential fish habitat.
In this public presentation co-sponsored by Schoodic Institute and Penobscot East Resource Center, MacArthur award winner Ted Ames will discuss the historical links between alewives and the coastal populations of cod. He will explore what the alewife-cod connection implies for the impact of dam removal and river restoration to marine fish restoration in Maine.