Acadia Partners Receives Support for New Research Programs Friday, May 12, 2006 Winter Harbor, ME -- May 10, 2006. Acadia Partners for Science and Learning today announced that it has been awarded a $10,000 grant from the Davis Conservation Foundation in support of its work in engaging citizens in scientific research at Acadia National Park. The funds will be used in combination with funds raised from private donors and other sources to support research that explores the use of volunteers as an essential element in scientific inventory and monitoring work in the Park. "The grant from the Davis Conservation Foundation will enable us to extend the work that we have begun with help and financial support from our board, L.L. Bean, and Friends of Acadia," said Denny O'Brien, Executive Director of Acadia Partners. "It permits us to add an important focus on volunteer engagement to the research that we are supporting for this year and for the coming year." Read full article: 'Acadia Partners Receives Support for New Research Programs' (1906 bytes more)

Researcher Offers Opportunity to Participate in Work on Plant-Animal Interactions Wednesday, April 26, 2006 On Saturday, May 20, the Schoodic Education and Research Center (SERC) at Acadia National Park is offering an opportunity for area residents and Park visitors to engage, hands-on, in some interesting scientific research that examines plant responses to attacks by predators. This event is one of several "Resource Acadia" programs that enable participants to interact with researchers who are actively engaged in work at the Park.  In this program, Dr. Jeremy Long will welcome participants to his research site in Ship Harbor on Mount Desert Island, where he is studying the way that Fucus vesiculosus -- rockweed -- responds to grazing by two kinds of snails and by an isopod -- Idotea baltica -- a marine relative of the sow bug. Dr. Long's research is at the leading edge of work that explores evidence of newly discovered, more complex interactions between plants and animals.  Not too long ago, the assumption was simply that animals eat plants -- period.  If you had more herbivores grazing on plants, the assumption was that plant population would decrease in direct proportion to the increase in predators. Read full article: 'Researcher Offers Opportunity to Participate in Work on Plant-Animal Interactions' (1644 bytes more)

Workshop: The Art of Interpretive Writing Tuesday, April 11, 2006 Acadia National Park will be holding a workshop entitled "The Art of Interpretive Writing" on May 11 and 12, 2006 at the Schoodic Education and  Research Center in Winter Harbor, Maine. The workshop leader is Alan Leftridge, editor of The Interpreter, the magazine of the National Association for Interpretation. He has conducted more than 25 of these workshops over the past five years and has worked in interpretation since 1972, both inside the National Park Service and for private organizations. Workshop size is limited to 30 participants.  You will learn the following by attending this workshop ... Read full article: 'Workshop: The Art of Interpretive Writing' (4144 bytes more)

Acadia National Park Begins Building Renovation to Create Auditorium Friday, April 07, 2006 Winter Harbor, ME -- April 7, 2006.  The National Park Service has awarded a $3 million contract to P&S Construction for the construction of an auditorium at the Schoodic Education and Research Center (SERC) in Acadia National Park. The auditorium is the first major building renovation since the U.S. Navy transferred the property to the National Park Service in July 2002. Senators Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe secured the majority of funds for the auditorium as part of a larger funding package in the 2002 Department of Defense appropriations bill to support the conversion of the former navy base to an education and research center. The State of Maine provided a ten percent match for the funding and is administering the grant on behalf of the National Park Service. The National Park Service is funding a portion of the construction from park entry pass sales at Acadia National Park.  Read full article: 'Acadia National Park Begins Building Renovation to Create Auditorium' (1910 bytes more)

Friends of Acadia and Acadia Partners Announce Research Grant Winners Tuesday, March 28, 2006 Winter Harbor, ME. -- March 28, 2006. Friends of Acadia and Acadia Partners for Science and Learning today announced the list of proposals that will receive funding for scientific research in Acadia National Park over the coming year. Five of the proposals will be supported through the LL Bean Acadia Research Fellowship program. An additional two proposals will receive funding from Acadia Partners. The winning proposals were selected from a pool of 23 applications that Acadia National Park's Schoodic Education and Research Center (SERC) received in response to the program announcement last month. Jim McKenna, NPS coordinator at SERC, said "We were extremely pleased and even a little surprised at both the number of proposals we received and their quality. For a program in its first year, where researchers aren't planning ahead for a submission, this is a very strong response. The research fellowship program is clearly tapping into a lot of talent and into a real need." Read full article: 'Friends of Acadia and Acadia Partners Announce Research Grant Winners' (5324 bytes more)

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