By Gabrielle Walsh and Beckett Birmingham We ended the fifth week of our summer season with an exciting week of marine science! This week’s topic “Singled Out” focused on“Plastic Pollution.”Our “budding scientist” dove deep into the topic with creativity, curiosity, and passion for our planet. One of the highlights of […]
By Gabrielle Walsh and Beckett Birmingham We ended the fifth week of our summer season with an exciting week of marine science! This week’s topic “Singled Out” focused on“Plastic Pollution.”Our “budding scientist” dove deep into the topic with creativity, curiosity, and passion for our planet. One of the highlights of […]
By Gabrielle Walsh and Jacqueline Branch Week four at the Boothbay Sea and Science Center (BSSC) was quite jam-packed. We learned about the Arctic and Antarctic, the indigenous people of the North, sea level rise, the carbon cycle, and how tides function. We started off strong with a discussion about […]
By Amelia Lang and Carolyn Parker Through sun and storms, the students at BSSC spent the first week of July dialed into weather. Aptly titled Day to Day, our third week focused on the importance of daily weather observations. Our “budding meteorologist” recorded information on precipitation, wind, clouds, sea temperatures […]
Editor’s note: Five of our Stay’s’l students and an instructor spent four days aboard the Schooner Tyrone where they experienced life aboard a classic sailing ship. While at sea they studied sailing, seamanship, science as well as day to day living on the water. Below are daily reports from […]
By Carolyn Parker and Gabrielle Walsh On the sailing side, our first week at BSSC started with a cold plunge as all 40 campers jumped into Linekin Bay to take their swim test. The shivers and complaints of cold faded as they all received their hot chocolate and got into […]
This year 40 Grade 5 students at the Great Salt Bay Community School in Damariscotta participated in the Boothbay Sea and Science Center’s Exploring the Science of Seaweed Farming program. The students raised seaweed seedlings in a tank in their classroom. Those seedlings were later planted in the ocean […]
We are very pleased to announce that the rebuilding of our pier is complete. Custom Float Services began construction on March 6 and the crew of four have worked steadily, chasing the tide as they hold to their plan to have the pier rebuilt no later than April 15. The […]
The Exploring the Science of Seaweed Farming program has a total of 40 seaweed droplines planted – 20 in Clark Cove and 3 on P. Dion Farm (Damariscotta River), 13 on Spartan Sea Farms (Casco Bay), 4 on Spring Tide Seaweed Farm (Frenchman Bay). Weather permitting, we will be harvesting […]
We have packed our nine-week summer program with hands-on experiential learning topics that are exciting, fun, and speak to: BSSC a la carte (Ship to Shore: Discovering BSSC); the intersection of boats and marine science (Scopes and Boats); weather forecasting (Day to Day); the arctic and antarctic regions (Top to […]
