Alexandrea Farquhar ’19 designs and constructs “Post-Morphean Dream Work” an art exhibit featuring her love for non-traditional, ethically sourced taxidermy.
Tyler Prest ’16 worked with Acadia National Park to create an exhibit in the COA George B. Dorr Museum of Natural History exploring the ethical dilemmas of managing the intertidal zone. His work is part of the museum’s new Acadia National Park Centennial exhibit, “Exploring Acadia: Our Best Classroom.”
Scott Kraus ’77, who has been studying right whales for more than 30 years, uses new night vision technologies to observe them, and has made new breakthrough discoveries about their nightly feeding patterns.
A series of expressive watercolors created by Savannah Bryant ’16 as part of her senior project cast attention on the most intricate details of familiar marine creatures.
Judy Allen, the Associate Director of Allied Whale and the Project Director of the North Atlantic Humpback Whale Catalog, is Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary’s Volunteer of the Year.
WABI’s Brian Sullivan checks out the spring lambs and other creatures on COA’s Peggy Rockefeller Farms and talks sustainable practices with farm manager C.J.Walke
Of what value is a gull? Maybe only this: the lessons of the free air and the wild sky, that science is born in patience and brought forth in care and wonder, that the world is a wide and wilder place than any text book can ever teach us…
A six-month-old herring gull defied the odds when she flew more than 1,700 miles from College of the Atlantic’s Great Duck Island in Maine to winter at Pascagoula’s Point Park.
Matt Messina ’16 and COA research associate and fin whale catalogue director Dan DenDanto use their expert re-articulation skills to breathe new life into an aged 16-foot pilot whale skeleton.
As an extension of her study of veganism and food justice, Elaina Burress ’18 spent her winter break rehabilitating rejected farm animals at a sanctuary in California.
Have you ever imagined creatures from another planet? Well, look no further, because the strangest creatures of all live on Earth, far below the surface of the sea.
The investigation into the death of Spinnaker, a 35-foot humpback whale, by researchers with College of the Atlantic’s Allied Whale program is explored by Danielle Waugh of New England Cable News.
Bill Trotter of the Bangor Daily News explores efforts by College of the Atlantic researchers, interns and volunteers to find clues in the death of Spinnaker, a 35-foot humpback that washed up onto the cliff’s of Acadia National Park in Bar Harbor.
WABI TV5’s John Krinjak reports on research associates, interns and volunteers with College of the Atlantic’s Allied Whale program as they gather in Bar Harbor to examine the body of Spinnaker, a 35-foot humpback who was known to scientists and nature enthusiasts across the Gulf of Maine.