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| Identifier | Type | Subject | Title | Web Resource | |
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| 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. |
| 2395 |
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| Reduction of Arsenic in Groundwater by Filtration Systems |
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Description: 32 private wells in Mount Desert Island were used for this study to analyze the effectiveness of different water treatment systems. |
| 2045 |
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| The Dynamic Forest Cover of Great Duck Island |
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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] |
| 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 |
| 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] |
| 2046 |
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| Soil, Water, Sun, Steak, an analysis of irrigation at the DD Ranch |
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Description: Irrigating for beef production at the DD Ranch |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 2295 |
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| Quarries in Southwestern Maine |
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Description: Some selective quarries and mineralogy of southwestern Maine |
| 2030 |
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| Wasted Food: From Farm to Landfill |
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Description: An analysis of wasted food in Maine, its sources and possible solutions |
| 2366 |
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| Toxic Manufacturing Plants in the United States |
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Description: This story map explores toxic manufacturing plants within the United States and how these plants affect the human communities that surround them. It was created in collaboration with Material Research , a low profit organization which provides affordable contract research to mostly non-profit organizations. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 2385 |
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| The Geology of National Parks Class, Winter 2023 |
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Description: 'Grand Teton National park is located in Northwestern Wyoming and is home to an abundant variety of flora and fauna, lakes, rivers, and the striking Teton range. The Tetons are the youngest of all the mountain ranges in the Rocky Mountain chain yet are made up of the continent's oldest rocks that date back 3 billion years.' |
| 2149 |
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| ESRI |
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| 2277 |
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| Active Transportation |
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| 2279 |
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| Solar Potential of High Electricity Cost States |
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Description: These maps support the business plan of ImpactGreen with the goal to eliminate fossil fuels from electricity production. |
| 2285 |
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| Bar Harbor Housing Development Potential |
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| 2283 |
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| Where Do Gulls Go? |
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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] |
| 2287 |
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| How to Shred Without Getting Shredded |
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Description: Avalanche Awareness in the Washington Backcountry |
| 2281 |
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| Algal Blooms and Common Loons in Maine |
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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. |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 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. |
