Acadia Partners Announces Fitz Eugene Dixon Research Fellowship Program Monday, July 10, 2006 Fellowships will encourage new research that connects citizens, science, and Acadia National Park  Winter Harbor, ME – July 10, 2006. Acadia Partners for Science and Learning announced today that it is establishing the Fitz Eugene Dixon Research Fellowship program. The Fitz Eugene Dixon Fellowships will support scientific work that engages citizens in research that increases understanding of plant and wildlife ecology at Acadia National Park.  Acadia Partners will raise $250,000 to fund the fellowships over the next five years. Fitz Eugene Dixon, the prominent Winter Harbor businessman and philanthropist, is contributing a $50,000 match against the first $100,000 raised during this campaign. Read full article: 'Acadia Partners Announces Fitz Eugene Dixon Research Fellowship Program' (2414 bytes more)

SERC to Host Biodiversity Blitz Saturday, June 24, 2006 Over the weekend of July 14-16 the Schoodic Education and Research Center will be at the center of a "BioBlitz" -- a 24-hour long effort to identify the different species of flies, mosquitoes, gnats, and midges that exist in the Park on Schoodic. Co-sponsored by the Maine Entomological Society, Maine Forest Service, University of Maine, and the George B. Dorr Museum of Natural History at College of the Atlantic, the BioBlitz is the fourth in a series of annual programs aimed at cataloging the biodiversity that exists at Acadia National Park. This survey effort is a unique opportunity for amateur naturalists, students, and other interested individuals to work with nationally recognized professional naturalists and to learn more about the Park ecosystem. This year's BioBlitz focuses on the taxonomic order Diptera, which includes flies, mosquitoes, and other two winged insects. The event, which begins on Friday evening and continues through the weekend, includes a workshop for interested amateurs and for people who are just curious about this intense effort to survey the many species of flies in the Park. It also includes a 24-hour long collection and sampling effort for people interested in more involvement with the researchers and with the overall process and outcomes. Read full article: 'SERC to Host Biodiversity Blitz' (2385 bytes more)

Resource Acadia Workshop: Oranges and Population Genetics Friday, June 09, 2006 The Schoodic Education and Research Center will be offering a free workshop on Saturday, June 24 in which the public can learn more about the research that Jessica Muhlin is doing in the intertidal zones on Schoodic Point. Ms. Muhlin is studying the population genetics of Fucus vesiculosus, better known to most of us as rockweed. Her research involves releases of hundreds of oranges, each marked with identifying information, as a means of collecting data on local the movement of local currents along Schoodic shoreline. The workshop includes a slide presentation describing Ms. Muhlin's research and hand-on engagement by participants in a synchronized release of oranges from multiple locations on the Schoodic peninsula. These Research Acadia workshops are fun and engaging, and are a wonderful opportunity share in a scientist's enthusiasm for research and to spend some time out of doors seeing what scientists do. The workshops can be especially valuable for teenagers and pre-teens who have an interest in science. The workshop begins at 9 AM at the Schooner Club on the SERC campus. Read full article: 'Resource Acadia Workshop: Oranges and Population Genetics' (3026 bytes more)

Archaeologists Take Up Residence at SERC Wednesday, June 07, 2006 This past week students and faculty from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Maine in Orono took up residence at the Schoodic Education and Research Center as they began excavation of a shell midden site in Gouldsboro. The lead researcher is Dr. Brian Robinson, an archaeologist specializing in prehistoric northern and coastal hunter gatherers and in the cultural history of North Eastern North America. The site they are excavating, which is located on private land, is of interest because its integrity is threatened by steady increases in sea level. The goal is to study and catalog the contents of the shell midden site before its contents and organization are lost to erosion. Read full article: 'Archaeologists Take Up Residence at SERC' (1613 bytes more)

Acadia Partners Awards Support for Citizen-Based Monitoring Research Thursday, May 18, 2006 Winter Harbor, ME -- May 18, 2006. Acadia Partners for Science and Learning announced that it is providing supplemental funding to Sarah J. Nelson, of the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental and Watershed Research. The supplemental funding will enable Ms. Nelson to extend her research work to evaluate the accuracy of citizen-based sampling in a very demanding scientific monitoring effort. Read full article: 'Acadia Partners Awards Support for Citizen-Based Monitoring Research' (4406 bytes more)

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