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Acadia Partners for Science and Learning, working in partnership with Acadia National Park and the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental and Watershed Research at the University of Maine, is offering a January intersession course for students at the Maine School of Science and Mathematics. The course will introduce students to current environmental research issues at Acadia National Park and engage them in ongoing research activities. The two-week program will be based at Acadia National Park’s Schoodic Education and Research Center (SERC) campus from January 8 to January 18. The broad learning objective for the course, as for other educational programs at the Schoodic Center, is to introduce students to scientific issues related to the study of natural systems with a particular focus on perceiving and understanding change within complex systems. In this particular course, we will introduce students to systems using watersheds as the primary unit of spatial scale, scaling down to particular collection sites and scaling up to a regional perspective. The students will also learn to work in different temporal scales by studying watersheds with different fire histories. They will learn how paleo-ecological studies can trace the history of an area back for hundreds of years. The particular research questions that will be the focus of the two-week course relate to mercury deposition in the watersheds. A more complete description of the course is included at the end of this announcement.
The primary instructor for the class is Sarah J. Nelson, a Canon National Parks Science Scholar currently working at the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental and Watershed Research. The students participating in the program are from the Maine School for Science and Mathematics in Limestone, Maine. MSSM is a state funded magnet school providing strong preparation in science and mathematics to high school students from across the state of Maine.
For more information about this program or about other educational programs offered by Acadia Partners at the Schoodic Education and Research Center, contact Bill Zoellick (207 963-2023 or email "bill" at acadiapartners.org. For a more complete description of the course, see the full course announcement.
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