Education Fellowship Available
Scott Richardson ~ 2008-03-26
The Wells Reserve has announced a wonderful opportunity for one Maine college graduate who wants to succeed in the field of environmental education.
Thanks to the foresight and generosity of a long-time Laudholm Trust supporter, the Charles C. and Rebecca S. Richardson Post-Baccalaureate Education Fellow will become engaged in interdisciplinary programs that focus on environmental learning and helping Maine communities address complex environmental issues.
The Fellow will begin a 12-month, full-time position in early June and will…
- Coordinate summer camps
- Develop trail guide materials
- Be involved in designing new interpretive exhibits
- Help develop an Environmental Leadership Program
- Gain experience in the breadth of programs offered by the Wells Reserve
- Gain exposure to other environmental education, research, and stewardship centers throughout the region
- Receive considerable opportunities for networking with regional environmental organizations and agencies
The application window for this unique experience is short. If you or someone you know feels qualified to fill the position, please respond by April 13. Visit the Wells Reserve website for more details.
Live data from Wells Reserve weather station
Scott Richardson ~ 2007-11-29
Near real time weather data for the Wells Reserve is now available. Give it a try!
The station, located behind the Coastal Ecology Center, has a National Weather Service identifier and is checked and serviced monthly by the reserve’s “SWMP Tech,” Jeremy Miller. The data is considered provisional, but goes through an automated quality assurance and control procedure before it is posted.
The System Wide Monitoring Program coordinates with the Centralized Data Management Office, a NOAA entity in South Carolina. The CDMO website lets you graph or download weather data, plus water quality data, from Wells and all other reserves in the system.
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MANP features Laudholm
Scott Richardson ~ 2007-09-05
Look! Laudholm Trust is the featured nonprofit at the Maine Association of Nonprofits website this month!
Land conservationists benefit from Wells Reserve mapping
Scott Richardson ~ 2007-03-04
The Wells Reserve’s mapping and conservation work is at the heart of today’s Portland Press Herald story by Seth Harkness—Project aims to fill gap in conservation of land.
Harkness notes:
A defining feature of conservation efforts in southern Maine is that land trusts tend to arise out of emergencies. Typically they form in reaction to an event like the one that recently occurred in Hollis, where a prized piece of property is threatened with development and residents respond by trying to protect it. Most of the groups are small, volunteer organizations with strictly local missions.
What’s missing, Harkness learns from Reserve research director Michele Dionne, is “the broader vision needed to spot areas worthy of protection before they are threatened and to organize small-scale conservation efforts into large-scale protection of habitats and watersheds.”
That’s where the Reserve’s grant under the Maine Coast Protection Initiative comes in. Now Hollis, Dayton, and Waterboro citizens know one key place to ask for help as they look ahead to protecting parcels important to their communities.
Social science fellowships available
Scott Richardson ~ 2006-12-20
Five fellowships are available for masters and doctoral students to conduct social science research within the National Estuarine Research Reserve System. Fellowships are for students whose research focuses on the social, cultural, economic, or policy aspects related to one of these topics:
- Community resilience
- Ecological restoration
- Ecosystem-based management
- Landscape or seascape change
- Climate variability and change
Fellowships are for $30,000 and require a 30% match. For more information on application guidelines and participating reserves, please visit the NERR System or grants.gov websites (search for funding opportunity NOS-OCRM-2007-2000906).
Update 2007-01-29: Deadline extended to February 28.
Coastal Resource Library launches Interlibrary Loan
Scott Richardson ~ 2006-12-18
The Coastal Resource Library at Wells Reserve takes another leap forward as it joins the the statewide Interlibrary Loan (ILL) Van Delivery Service. The service went into effect on December 12.
Once a week, a courier will visit the Reserve to pick up and deliver library books and materials. The Coastal Resource Library has many hard-to-find items that will undoubtedly be in demand. Likewise, our library’s customers have diverse and specific needs that will be met effectively through Interlibrary Loan.
Scores of public, college/university, school, and special libraries in Maine participate in the ILL service, which is coordinated by the Maine State Library.
For more information on Interlibrary Loan, visit the MSL website.
To contact the Coastal Resource Library, call 646-1555 ext 133. (Please note the library will be closed until after the holidays.)
For more information on our library, contact Sarah at 646-1555 ext 116.