Resources
Bowdoin Buoy Facility
The Bowdoin Buoy Facility (BBF), a scientific buoy near the Bowdoin College Coastal Studies Center in Harpswell Sound, was installed in December 2006 to study HABs (harmful algal blooms such as "red tide"). The buoy contains instrumentation to monitor temperatures, wind speed, current speed and direction, chlorophyll levels, and water clarity.
For more information, please click here. For images, click here.
Coastal Studies Marine Organisms
Coastal Studies Project Initiative Fund
Competitive internal funding for Bowdoin faculty to engage in research and creative work related to Coastal Studies. See Fund Description for more information.
Visiting Scholar Fellowships
CSC Scholar-in-Residence
Each year, the Coastal Studies Center invites departments to nominate a scholar-in-residence to conduct independent work and teach one course while living at the CSC. Since 2000, the CSC has sponsored scholars representing a wide array of disciplines including the visial arts, biology and environmental history. See application guidelines and past scholars for details.
Doherty Marine Biology Postdoctoral Scholar
A generous challenge grant from the Henry L. and Grace Doherty Charitable Foundation has been used to endow the Doherty Marine Biology Visiting Scholar program, a two-year, visiting post-doctoral faculty position focused on marine and coastal studies.
See current Doherty Scholar Jon Allen for more information
Rusack Coastal Studies Visiting Scholar
Christopher Scales, an ethnomusicologist at the College of William and Mary is the 2007-2008 Rusack Coastal Studies Visiting Scholar. An expert in Native American music, Dr. Scales has published on powwow music along the US-Canadian border and seeks to expand his current research while at Bowdoin with a study of Maine Native American musical styles (Passamaquoddy and Penobscot), traditions neglected in the academic literature. Scales will teach one course, Music 232 Native North American Music and Dance in Spring 2008.
CSC Symposium Fund
CSC Seminar Series
Coastal Science Institute For Middle School Science Educators
Bowdoin College has completed a three year cycle of this week-long Summer Institute for middle school teachers to help improve coastal and marine "literacy" in the sciences, and will not be offering the Institute in summer 2008.
The College's proximity to the coastal and marine environment offers a uniqe opportunity for secondary school educators to engage in scientific inquiry and learning through interacting with a living coastal classroom. The Institute has provided a meaningful professional development opportunity for Maine and New England teachers to conduct hands-on science and disseminate important environmental knowledge into clasrooms. For more information, please follow the links provided below.
Campus News: Invading Crabs a Focus of Maine Coastal Classroom