Bowdoin Buoy

The Bowdoin Buoy project operated by Bowdoin Professor Collin Roesler (Earth and Oceanographic Science) continuously monitors physical and chemical properties at the mouth of Harpswell Sound in combination with the high capacity seawater system of the marine laboratory provides exceptional experimental capabilities across an array of disciplines.

This makes the Schiller Coastal Studies Center a sentinel site at the edge of the Gulf of Maine attempting to understand the impact of climate change on coastal systems, and to monitor key aspects of physical and biological environments that are changing rapidly. 

See conditions at the buoy.

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  Measuring the Ocean

  Postgraduate scholars from across the nation gather at the newly expanded Schiller Coastal Studies Center for a NASA-sponsored course on ocean optics and remote sensing. Teaching the class is Bowdoin professor Collin Roesler.
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  Luke Carberry ’18 and Professor Collin Roesler Publish Breakthrough Oceanography Finding

  Research Luke Carberry ’18 pursued at Bowdoin—to determine the best methods for calculating the abundance of phytoplankton in the ocean—has been recently published in a top scientific journal.
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  Basking in Phytoplankton’s Glow: The Novel Marine Research of Martha Boben ’19

  This summer, Martha Boben ’19 managed to ask big questions of some of the smallest creatures.