Middle school students at St. John’s Catholic School in Brunswick will be analyzing flight data based on an experiment they created when the Airbus Perlan Mission II heads to 90,000 feet this fall. “It’s amazing that an experiment they built is on the flight,” Karin Paquin, a science teacher at St. John’s, said in a […]
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Seniors Not Acting Their Age: Austin Stream rocks
Every cloud has a silver lining. Given the rainy, foggy, humid weather we’ve experienced over the past month, that’s likely an adage many find difficult to embrace. However, there has indeed been a silver lining for one group: whitewater boaters. For several weeks, the rivers and streams have been raging. For many paddlers, choosing from […]
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BoomerTECH Adventures: Summer adventures and your phone
Summer in Maine is a great time to get outside for hiking, camping, cycling and boating. Our phones are wonderful ways to find information for planning activities online, getting directions via maps, capturing images and communicating with one another before, during and after summer adventures. Protecting your phone from the rigors of outdoor activities is […]
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Intertidal: Triboluminescence rocks — a lesson on a different kind of light
Pulling together the themes of glowing ocean creatures from last week and coastal geology from the week prior, this week’s topic is glowing rocks. Obviously, the rocks didn’t eat glowing dinoflagellates, as was my hypothesized explanation for the creatures I saw on the sand one night. In fact, these rocks wouldn’t be visible at all […]
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Your Land: ‘Bear in Mind’ — a note from a neighbor bear
August is typically blueberry infused — pancakes, muffins, pies; your list is as long as mine, I’m sure. But last spring’s late freeze has muted this summer’s berry harvest, and in its blue absence, I’ve been thinking about one of its other dependents: bears, a lifelong favorite animal. Even the casual scanner of news will […]
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Seniors Not Acting Their Age: Sea kayak adventures continue on Muscongus Bay
Four of us were sea kayaking back from remote Eastern Egg Rock in outer Muscongus Bay. A modest tailwind helped propel us north while traversing the 3-mile exposed crossing to the relative security of a trio of islands. Franklin Island Light dominated the view in the east. Members of the Penobscot Paddle & Chowder Society, […]
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Book Notes: ‘Sparrow Being Sparrow’ a cat-filled lesson in honesty
My husband’s grandmother loved cats, particularly the kind that slunk up to the bowl outside her kitchen door, where she scraped her dinner scraps. She lived in the same house in a quiet Maine town for seven decades, feeding the neighborhood felines until well past the age of 100, when she died peacefully at home. […]
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Intertidal: A look at bioluminescence in marine life
Every summer, I look forward to seeing phosphorescence in the water. These are the tiny plankton that sparkle when disturbed. If you wave your hand or a paddle under the water, you can see them shimmer. I say “them” because they are individually so small that it takes a large number of them to put […]
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Seniors Not Acting Their Age: Return of the puffins
A tiny, seemingly nondescript, barren atoll located in outer Muscongus Bay, Eastern Egg Rock, is one of a handful of locations along the Maine coast where Atlantic puffins come to nest. It hasn’t always been that way. The colorful seabirds stopped returning to the rock around 1890. A variety of circumstances had driven them from […]