This week, MMA and the Wilson Museum hosted master naturalist Tom Seymour who gave an interactive plant talk for the public on Holbrook Island. Those in attendance sampled edible species including sea rocket, pearly everlasting, northern bay, and jewelweed. Other species were discussed for their ...medicinal use including the antibacterial properties of native barberry, the high concentrations of vitamin C in white spruce, and foxglove as a treatment for heart conditions.

Maine Maritime Academy congratulates professors Carey Friedman and LeAnn Whitney, who received a grant from the Maine Community Foundation in support of their research examining PFAS in phytoplankton in the Penobscot Bay region. Their work has important implications for how PFAS chemicals are able ...to move throughout the food chain in the marine environment. Dr. Friedman and Dr. Whitney look forward to sharing their findings with students at the Academy when classes resume. Their project has recently been covered by the Ellsworth American, Mount Desert Islander, Penobscot Bay Pilot, and Castine Patriot, with a forthcoming article in the Rockland Courier-Gazette.

The schooner Bowdoin, a National Historic Landmark, has returned to the Arctic for the first time in 16 years! We congratulate the 15-person crew for becoming "blue nose" sailors. These images were taken on the approach to Ilulissat, Greenland by Jorge Morales-Lopez, graduate student in ...Global Logistics & Vessel Operations.