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![This image is a close up of a student using a tablet designed for students with disabilities to interact with LabVenture features.]()
Choice-Based Assessments
In work led by Stanford University’s AAALab and supported by GMRI, we look to understand how experiences in LabVenture and in the classroom affect students’ …
Education
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![Two lobstermen working on a lobster boat parked by a pier]()
Resilience, Adaptation, and Transformation in Lobster Fishing Communities
Using the American lobster fishery as a case study, we will draw lessons from community experiences through a downturn in lobster populations in Southern New …
Science
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Urban Heat Island Mapping Project
Urban heat islands (UHIs) are urbanized areas that experience higher temperatures than outlying areas. Through already established protocols, we aim to support a comprehensive, community …
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![Students and an adult are observing a flooded pier in Portland.]()
Assessing Coastal Flood Risk with Maine Communities
To understand what water level and weather conditions lead to local flooding, we’re expanding Maine’s network of tide gauges and pairing that data with community …
Community
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![Students gather around two computers at classroom desks and learn about modeling.]()
Teaching and Learning Ecosystem Modeling
This research project investigates the development of middle-school students’ understandings and practices of modeling in the context of investigations of variability and change in ecosystems. …
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Shark Habitat Selection
We investigated which scales were the most predictive of highly mobile predator habitat selection, for three shark species in particular: blue sharks, salmon sharks, and …
Science
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![A parking lot on the coast is flooded with two cars in it.]()
High Water Season Events
Learn how you can support coastal resilience as a community scientist by observing and documenting flooding near you!
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![This graphic shows the northeast United States, with blue arrows coming from all directions, pointing towards the region.]()
A Northeast Safe and Thriving for All (NEST)
This project aims to mainstream migration considerations into broader climate planning efforts, while looking into how governance, community values and attributes, and more affect the …
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![A school of green hued salmon swims toward the camera underwater.]()
Atlantic Salmon in a Changing Northwest Atlantic Ecosystem
Atlantic salmon populations in North America and Europe have declined dramatically in recent decades, threatening the viability of many populations. Key drivers in the Northwest …
Science
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![Behind a diagram in white that reads "Joan M. Kelly Sea State Series" participants sitting on orange stools engage in our Sea State Series by listening to a GMRI expert who stands on a platform to the right of the image. The event took place in the LabVenture space, and the big brown, blue, and black map with the Gulf of Maine sits in the background.]()
Sea State
This series features expert speakers on topics central to the Gulf of Maine ecosystem and economy. Since 2006, we’ve invited scientists, seafood experts, fishermen, and …
Choice-Based Assessments
In work led by Stanford University’s AAALab and supported by GMRI, we look to understand how experiences in LabVenture and in the classroom affect students’ …
Education
Resilience, Adaptation, and Transformation in Lobster Fishing Communities
Using the American lobster fishery as a case study, we will draw lessons from community experiences through a downturn in lobster populations in Southern New …
Science
Urban Heat Island Mapping Project
Urban heat islands (UHIs) are urbanized areas that experience higher temperatures than outlying areas. Through already established protocols, we aim to support a comprehensive, community …
Assessing Coastal Flood Risk with Maine Communities
To understand what water level and weather conditions lead to local flooding, we’re expanding Maine’s network of tide gauges and pairing that data with community …
Community
Teaching and Learning Ecosystem Modeling
This research project investigates the development of middle-school students’ understandings and practices of modeling in the context of investigations of variability and change in ecosystems. …
Shark Habitat Selection
We investigated which scales were the most predictive of highly mobile predator habitat selection, for three shark species in particular: blue sharks, salmon sharks, and …
Science
High Water Season Events
Learn how you can support coastal resilience as a community scientist by observing and documenting flooding near you!
A Northeast Safe and Thriving for All (NEST)
This project aims to mainstream migration considerations into broader climate planning efforts, while looking into how governance, community values and attributes, and more affect the …
Atlantic Salmon in a Changing Northwest Atlantic Ecosystem
Atlantic salmon populations in North America and Europe have declined dramatically in recent decades, threatening the viability of many populations. Key drivers in the Northwest …
Science
Sea State
This series features expert speakers on topics central to the Gulf of Maine ecosystem and economy. Since 2006, we’ve invited scientists, seafood experts, fishermen, and …