Science
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e’ll follow Refuge biologists and volunteers banding saw-whet owls on Petit Manan Point, join in a nesting seabird census, and explore the underwater world of rockweed as a fish nursery. We’ll get to know the birds species inhabiting the Wild Islands, as they nest, feed and reproduce. We’ll learn how humans have altered the seabird habitat both to the negative and the positive. Working in the field we’ll come to understand why maintaining all wild spaces is ecologically critical and why preserving the Maine Coastal Islands Wildlife Refuge in particular is absolutely critical. The Wild Islands are part of a big, complex, and unique ocean system, the Gulf of Maine. Warming and becoming more acidic faster than almost any other ocean region on the planet, the Gulf faces some daunting challenges. Accompanying the scientists as they study the Gulf from their research vessels, we’ll learn how the islands and their wildlife are facing this challenge. We’ll learn about the interaction of the top and bottom currents, the wind and weather patterns that comprise the physical and biological dynamics of the Gulf.
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