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| Identifier | Type | Subject | Title | Web Resource | |
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| 2286 |
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| On Track of the Pale Clouded Yellow Butterfly |
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Description: Where it lives and how we might save it |
| 2293 |
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| Tracking Great White Sharks in the Gulf of Maine |
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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. |
| 2035 |
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| 328: Response, Rehab, Release |
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Description: The rehabilitation story of seal #328, a juvenile harbor seal rescued from Cape Elizabeth, ME. |
| 2038 |
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| Gulls of the Gulf of Maine |
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| 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). |
| 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. |
| 2042 |
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| The Dorr Museum Collections and their Global Origins |
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Description: An exploration of the George B. Dorr Museum of Natural History collections and their origins. The Dorr Museum of Natural History is unique among museums in that its collections have been prepared entirely by students. |
| 2047 |
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| Cheetahs in Southern Africa |
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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. |
| 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. |
| 2051 |
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| A Profile on Dengue: The Infamous Neglected Tropical Disease |
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Description: Dengue, a mosquito-borne virus, has spread across the globe in recent years, now infecting an estimated 100-400 million people each year. Approximately forty percent of the world’s population lives in countries with a risk of dengue. |
| 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. |
| 2364 |
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| Project Scotland |
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Description: Natural Resource Management for Biodiversity. Understanding Scotland's protected habitats and their inhabitants. |
| 2377 |
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| Northern Pacific Sound Pollution |
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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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| 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 |
| 2381 |
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| Nesting Sea Turtles on a Changing Caribbean Island |
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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] |
| 2384 |
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| River Herring in the Concord River Watershed |
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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] |
| 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). |
| 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. |
| 2383 |
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| The Bale National Park: Harenna Forest, Ethiopia |
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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 |
| 2387 |
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| Pulling Natures Linchpin: |
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Description: A Study of Potential Correlations between Declining bat Populations and Modern Mosquito-born Epidemics |
| 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] |
| 2397 |
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| River Herring at Wight's Pond |
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Description: an outreach piece from College of the Atlantic's Fisheries, Fishermen, and Fishing Communities course 2023 |
| 2398 |
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| River Herring Co-management in Downeast Maine |
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Description: A final project for College of the Atlantic's Fisheries, Fishermen, and Fishing Communities course 2023 |
| 2142 |
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| Rockweed in Frenchman Bay |
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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] |
