• Spent Friday in Rockland counting juvenile sea scallops - part of our collaborative project with Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries & the Hurricane Is...
  • Hunting season is underway. Please remember to wear blaze orange when hiking.
  • Great afternoon hiking with the Fulbright Association Maine Chapter - discussed the long-term research happening at BMMCA and took in the views!
  • Setting scallop spat bags in Casco Bay to understand larval abundance and distribution - part of our collaborative project with Maine Center for Coast...
  • Fall work for the Basin Oyster Project involves cleaning bags, water quality monitoring and a site visit by @tncmaine!
  • Preparing spat bag lines at the Shortridge Coastal Center for our collaborative project to understand the distribution of scallop larvae along the Mai...
  • A huge thank you to the Bates students who supported our work this summer including oyster reefs, sea scallop larvae and Morse Mountain monitoring! Be...
  • Beautiful day for easement monitoring with TNC staff!
  • 2022 salt marsh vegetation monitoring complete! And wrapped up before the heavy rain set in!
  • Measuring oysters before planting them on our pilot-scale oyster reef site in the Basin!
  • The BMMCA parking lot will be closed to the public on Wednesday August 10th for road maintenance.
  • Green crab surveys today! 🦀European green crabs are an invasive crab species found along the Northeastern coast of the US. They have few natural preda...
  • Taking care of 500,000 oyster larvae before adding them to the Basin some time next week!
  • Green crab surveys at Hermit Island with Manomet!
  • Foggy morning on the marsh. #BMMCA
  • Winter walks at the mountain. #batesmorsemountain
  • 10.9’ high tide on the Sprague River Marsh... hike with the Walking Club for the USM Senior College cut short... #mainecoast #batescollege
  • Dumpster loaded with mangled lobster traps cleaned from Seawall Beach over the past year. Thanks to all who helped with the cleanup in April and loadi...
  • Beautiful October day on the marsh! #batescollege #nature #mainecoast
  • Joined the Sierra Club and Elizabeth Rush, author of Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore for a walk at Bates-Morse Mountain. Discussed how...
  • Staff from Bates’ Office of Sponsored Programs and Research Compliance (SPaRC) visited BMMCA for the morning! Not at all deterred by the blustery cond...
  • Joined three Bates seniors and Biology Professor Brett Huggett in the field for sample collections to track pitch pine growth and lichen species distr...
  • Conservation easement monitoring with @tncmaine #conservemaine
  • Beginning to look like fall - Salicornia is beginning to turn red! Collecting and re- deploying water temperature loggers for the 4th year in a row in...
  • Had a chance to paddle the Sprague River through the marsh - good to get a fresh perspective on the natural beauty of BMMCA! #batescollege #batesmorse...
  • Took annual monitoring data at three of the four SETs (Sediment Elevation Tables) on the Sprague River Marsh. Beautiful day to be in the field! #field...
  • A belated #fieldworkfriday post... Conducting our annual salt marsh monitoring transects to track changes in plant community abundance and distributio...
  • A spectacular 2000 foot perspective on Bates-Morse Mountain, showcasing the salt marshes and a natural lab. Many thanks to #lighthawk for giving us wi...
  • Bates Geology Professor Mike Retelle and students in his Sedimentology class overlook the Sprague Marsh. BMMCA is ideal for geology field trips as it...
  • #lookcloser in the tall grass and you might find some delicate blue eggs such as these! Spotted last summer while surveying a patch of wetland on the...