Work Starts on Acadia Research Opportunities Catalog

Zoellick, Bill

This is a brief three page summary of the five-day long sessions that over 50 scientists came to address scientific inquiries in the park. The areas of interest were freshwater resource issues, marine and estuarine studies, wildlife studies, physical science studies, and terrestrial issue studies. This summary outlines the issues addressed at each session: ParkÆs current research needs, emerging issues, role of ANP in research landscape, making Schoodic center more useful, lack of baseline data, visitor experience and impacts, ecological restoration, changing land use patters, invasive exotic species, air pollution, rare species conservation, management of native animals, data information and management. This was attached to the complete summary of each of the five research catalog workshops produced by Acadia Partners.