Current Project

This year the Gulf of Maine Field Studies class is taking the community awareness campaign about Sea Level Rise last year's class developed and moving toward actionable change.  Working on collecting data and instruction on creating a living shoreline in a marsh the town owns, students aim to educate and engage the community in a mitigation project that will continue the focus on Sea Level Rise, a real threat to this area.

Living Shorelines

We are currently working on creating a sign, video, podcast, and scale model of Goat Island to help inform our community on the impacts of sea level rise.

Sea Level Rise Bulletin Boards

We created bulletin boards for Kennebunk High School to address the impacts of sea level rise on a local and global scale.

Climate Impact Posters

We made posters that describe the impacts of climate change on our marshes, beaches, economy, and local culture. These are attached here, and we will be presenting them to the Kennebunk/Kennebunkport community on April 28, 2022.

Beach Profiling

Once a month, groups of students go to Wells Beach and Goose Rocks Beach to collect data to monitor erosion of the shoreline.

European Green Crab Data Collection

We went out as a class to Reddin Island and collected European green crab population data for the Gulf of Maine Research Institute (GMRI).