On Wednesday, October 28th, we are continuing our virtual event series with a two-part education conversation! Join our Director of Education and a panel of teachers from the Penobscot Bay region to discuss future directions of education. The first hour is broadly informational and open to everyone, the second hour will be focused on hearing needs from teachers themselves and finding solutions for this year and beyond.
Our Director of Education, Dr. Jenn Page, has been part of a team of formal and informal educators working with the Maine Department of Education on developing lessons for their new remote learning platform called Maine Online Opportunities for Sustained Education. MOOSE provides asynchronous modules that can be utilized not only for remote learning, but also to supplement classroom lessons, provide remediation or enrichment, and even assist in credit recovery. Jenn is now continuing to lead a team of educators into the fall.
Teach ME Outside Video
We are proud to have our programs and our island featured in a recent video from the Teach ME Outside initiative. Teach ME Outsidesupports and works in partnership with Maine communities to ensure that all Maine youth have access to powerful, hands-on environmental learning opportunities. The initiative focuses on reducing barriers and sharing creative community-designed solutions to increase schools’ and organizations’ ability to implement community-based environmental learning.
Hurricane in 2021
Consider bringing your school group to Hurricane Island next season. Contact programs@hurricaneisland.net to see we can work together to get your group on the island in 2021.
Research Highlights
Learn about our ongoing work with tagging scallops, GSI Scallop Research, Larval Lobster Studies, and more.
Earlier this month we successfully deployed our 12 spat bag lines in the Muscle Ridge area and around Hurricane to monitor scallop larval supply to those areas and to collect spat (baby scallops) for our aquaculture site! They all have large green buoys with our license and telephone numbers on them and will be out until Springtime. We've been monitoring scallop spat around the Muscle Ridge Closed Area since 2013 and around Hurricane since 2018 and are working up some of the data this winter, so stay tuned!!
In case you missed it...
Virtual Research Panel
The recording of our virtual research panel event this summer is on YouTube. Tune into the conversation between scallop fishermen Marsden Brewer, scientists Bob Steneck and Nichole Price, and our very own researchers Phoebe Jekielek and Madison Maier.
Special thanks to the Blue Door Carpenters for helping us build a new deck on the classroom! Check out the process below from start to finish.
The Great Collapse
September 2019
Volunteer Day Demo
October 2019
Leveling the Building
July 2020
Blue Door Carpenters Finish New Deck - September 2020
Special thanks to Bob Gordon, Eric Buck, Chris Carrigan, Paul Fagan, Will Rogers, Chip Bauer, and Bob Weiler for their hard work and dedication.
Thanks to our Staff for a Great
~Socially Distanced~ Season!
Shout out to our COVID Crew of 2020. We managed to work together and cohabit the island while taking necessary precautions to stay safe. Social distancing, masks, and temperature readings were all new factors to contend with. It wouldn't have been the same summer without those smiles. Thanks to everyone for their hard work!
In other news...
We welcome Mahnaz Seddiqi to our
Board of Advisors
Mahnaz was a summer participant on Hurricane just a few years ago. She is a graduate of Portland High School and is now studying at the University of Southern Maine. We are excited to work with her to expand our outreach into communities of color in Maine, especially in Portland and Lewiston. Welcome to the team Mahnaz!
Glass Bottles and Foxglove Stands
Check out archaeologist Jeff Benjamin's musings on public health in 19th century Hurricane Island.
