College of the Atlantic earth science professor Sarah Hall is spending a year in Washington, DC and at conferences around the US as a Science and Technology Policy Fellow with the United States Geological Survey
Five College of the Atlantic students present posters featuring work from their independent studies in earth sciene at the Maine Sustainability and Water Conference.
Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, College of the Atlantic, and others are partnering on a program that offers area residents a chance to know what’s in their water, and gives students the opportunity to perform community-based environmental science.
Private well owners on the northern half of Mount Desert Island who are curious about the potential presence of arsenic and other elements in their drinking water are encouraged to join a groundwater study led by College of the Atlantic earth sciences professor Dr. Sarah Hall and student Gabriela Moroz ’21.
College of the Atlantic earth science students and faculty join several South American colleagues for ten days of field research in Peru’s Atacama Desert.
A month-long geoscience research program in California’s Eastern Sierra Nevada mountains has College of the Atlantic students surveying soil conditions, assessing geohazards, kayaking, and doing homework under lantern light as they gain critical professional experience in the field.