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| Identifier | Type | Subject | Title | Web Resource | |
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| First virtual Coffee and Conversation of 2020 season | 
Description: The first virtual Coffee and Conversation between Todd Little-Siebold and Tom Wessels. The Coffee and Conversation series hosted by the Development Office features discussions between a guest and a COA faculty member or trustee. These conversations are held every Tuesday morning during July and August. | |
| 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). |
| 2319 |
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| Gates auditorium | 
Description: A photo of the Gates auditorium taken in spring to show the difference between the old Auditorium and Gates. | |
| 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). |
| 1733 |
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| Getting ready for Hillary Rodham Clinton at the Champlain Institute | 
Description: A set stage in Gates Auditorium is ready to virtually host Hillary Rodham Clinton, the keynote speaker of the Champlain Institute. The Champlain Institute is a week-long ideas festival which hosts leaders from around the country and the world to share their expertise on pressing issues of our time. | |
| 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. |
| 1739 |
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| Hannaford employee sanitizing shopping carts | 
Description: A Hannaford employee sanitizing shopping carts while wearing face covering and gloves due to the COVID-19 pandemic. | |
| 1711 |
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| Home, April 26, 2020 | 
Description: A photo lyrical essay on the idea of "home," based on the fact that the college shut down and asked students to go "home". | |
| 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. |
| 2021 |
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| Jake Totten shows student how to fill tire | 
Description: Jake Totten, Head of Grounds, shows a work study student how to fill a tire on a lawn mower. | |
| 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. |
