Description: Poster for Ella Kotsen's talk on her research of Ruth Moore's novels, including social, community and econopmic issues in the novels and contemporary. Ella is a rising senior at Bryn Mawr University and summer intern at Tremont Historical Society. Event: Ruth Moore Days, 2022 Place Bass Harbor Memorial Library Date: July 19, 2022
Description: Book of geneology including the Gonzales family of Hall Quarry. Other entries focus on Whittlesey's family connections to Castine, Plainville Connecticut, and York Maine.
Description: Flyer outlining the findings of year one of the Landscapes of Change project examining the changes in bird and pollinator populations on MDI.
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.
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]
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.
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