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.
College of the Atlantic is among top colleges and universities offering the best sustainability-focused courses, eco-friendly cafeteria provisions, and carbon-neutral land and energy policies, as well as the most opportunities to engage with the climate justice movement.
COA is in the top 20 among the nation’s colleges and universities for LGBTQ-friendliness, campus food, active governance, and schools where students study the most, according to The Princeton Review’s “Best 385 Colleges” Guide for 2020.
Though it has been consistently occupied for nearly 200 years, this small, treeless island 20 miles off the coast of Maine has never been all that habitable to humans and is expected to become even less so. With the Gulf of Maine warming faster than most oceans around the world, College of the Atlantic’s remote research station is on the front lines of climate change.
An expedition to unexplored ocean depths by a team of scientists, including Conservation International Executive Vice President Greg Stone ’82, aims to produce valuable information regarding deep-sea ecology.