
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.

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.
By Connor Keefe, Finn Fairfield, Lily Martin, Mae Richardson
By Ainsley Morrison, Chase MacIver, Curtis Morgan, and Rachael Plaisted
By Ivy Hammer-Gumbrell, Hazel McEnaney, Rowan Pow, and Samantha McGrath
By Connor Keefe, Finn Fairfield, Lily Martin, Mae Richardson
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.
By Ivy Hammer-Gumbrell
By Lily Martin and Rowan Pow
By Ella Boxall and Finn Fairfield
By Ivy Hammer-Gumbrell
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.
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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.
Students Ainsley Morrison, Finn Fairfield, and Mae Richardson with Isaac Schuchat, Assistant Director of Programs & Outreach at the Kennebunkport Conservation Trust.
Students Ainsley Morrison, Finn Fairfield, and Mae Richardson with Isaac Schuchat, Assistant Director of Programs & Outreach at the Kennebunkport Conservation Trust.
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).