SPRING 2019 News

CURIOSITY. COMMUNITY. STEWARDSHIP.

“Being on the island has made me open up more and participate more than I regularly would. I think doing hands-on, real life learning makes participating easier and less stressful.”

-OXFORD HILLS HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT

VISIT HURRICANE ISLAND!

UPCOMING EVENTS

Sunday, June 9 Volunteer Day Saturday, June 29 Farm to Table Dinner #1 August 16-18 Family Weekend Saturday, August 24 Farm to Table Dinner #2 Saturday, September 14 Farm to Table Dinner #3 Saturday, October 12 Volunteer Day

Find event and program details at www.hurricaneisland.net.

YOUTH PROGRAMS ADULT CLASSES MIDDLE SCHOOL (entering grades 7-8): July 7-13 August 19-22 July 14-20 NEW! Adventure Art Bird Banding with Hurricane Island July 14-20 Island Ecology Institute for Bird Archaeological July 21-27 Marine Biology Populations History

HIGH SCHOOL (entering grades 9-12): Wilderness Medical Associates classes July 7-13 Island Ecology on Hurricane: July 7-13 Marine Biology May 17-22 July 21-August 3 Women of Water Wilderness EMT July 28-August 10 Advanced Marine Biology July 28-August 10 Sustainability Leadership July 31-August 5 Wilderness Advanced Life Support Our summer programs are one- or two-week residential experiences on Hurricane. Please see our website for more information or to register! Building leadership capacity & creating solutions through a sustainable island campus.

A letter from HURRICANE I wanted to update the down the road from me. I Hurricane Island community was offered very cheap hay ALUMNA Kayla Haskins about what I’ve been up from another local farmer. to, because I credit a lot of I was able to speak with an it to my time at Hurricane. architect who was interested I just finished building a in the greenhouse and looked greenhouse for my school over my original blueprints. community. I have been The sustainability council at designing, fundraising, and my school donated to my building since September. project without any push at all. I was able to go to a UNEXPECTED CISA (community involved CHALLENGES sustaining agriculture) story time free of charge and many The hardest part of this school groups have offered to project was the negativity assist in planting. I originally received from family, fellow students, and BIG PLANS AHEAD faculty about building the greenhouse. The general I plan on using the greenhouse consensus was that building produce to give free and a greenhouse was too healthier food to my school ambitious and would require lunches, as well as give to the more skill, knowledge, local food bank in my town. I Kayla will intern with our garden and kitchen staff fundraising, and time than I am also using the greenhouse this summer and will attend Prescott College in had. All the people I talked to for future hands-on education Arizona this fall. had similar thoughts about in my school by creating a the greenhouse not being a curriculum that will be used reasonable goal. So it was in the following years in our difficult at first to have so earth science (6th and 7th many people against me grade) and environmental when I had an idea I was very science (12th grade) classes. passionate about and knew I I am now connecting with a could do. college professor to make a syllabus. A COMMUNITY OF I was able to experience SUPPORTERS on Hurricane Island how absolutely crucial it is to have So I fundraised the money hands-on learning so you can I needed after creating a see the importance of nature budget and blueprints thanks and keep a lasting memory of to the lovely community and the experience of learning. strangers as well. I asked for the help of my grandfather Getting the greenhouse who had no doubts in my project started was a little project. Although I definitely difficult, but the end result had people doubting me in just shows that when you are the beginning I now have so behind something you are many people that believe in passionate about, amazing Hurricane Island’s greenhouse inspired Kayla to my project. things can happen. take the lead in her home community. We recently Once trust was built that I Thank you so much for the moved our greenhouse to the new expanded was capable of such a large time I was able to spend at garden area, where we aim to double our food project, people really became Hurricane! interested in my greenhouse. production this year. I was offered free soil from a local farmer who lives Responding to Community-Driven Questions.

AQUACULTURE UPDATE!

Since last fall, our kelp and scallops while also functioning similarly to synchronicity of spawning in wild have been keeping an eye on the closures, where extractive activities and cultured populations, and work island at our aquaculture site. Very like fishing are limited or prohibited to further understand the variability soon we hope to hear that our to protect a target species or of scallop settlement in Penobscot Experimental Research Lease has habitat. Bay. Much of this will be done been approved so we can expand using our spat bags to understand our site to nearly four acres. This For the next few years, we will larval supply to different areas of has a lot of implications for us from be using the farm to explore the Penobscot Bay. We will be deploying a research perspective, and will interactions between wild and instruments that monitor variables allow us a unique opportunity to cultured scallop populations, and like temperature, light, chlorophyll ask important and timely questions establish long-term monitoring availability, pH, and dissolved specific to scallop aquaculture. of the environmental variables oxygen. All of these help us to better Aquaculture sites like ours provide influencing these interactions. understand our changing oceans relatively easy access to species Partnering with local scallop and the possible impacts this and serve as an experimental farmers, we plan to investigate the change may have on its organisms... population for research purposes variability in onset, progression, and like our scallops!

Integrating Science Education & Applied Research.

SPOTLIGHT on VINALHAVEN

Thanks to the generous support Vinalhaven students in their of the Vinalhaven Chamber of science classrooms for the Commerce, we brought several past three years. Much of the Vinalhaven high school students programming has involved and a Vinalhaven science teacher aquaculture education as a way of to a seaweed workshop put on by exploring diversification options for Springtide Seaweed at the end of Vinalhaven’s waterfront economy. March in Gouldsboro. Springtide Last year, students in middle and Seaweed is the industry leader in high school focused specifically organic and sustainable seaweed on kelp aquaculture and product aquaculture, and they provide development with seaweed. consulting services to seaweed aquaculture companies. By attending the course, Vinalhaven students and The two-day course, called their teacher gained practical Seaweed Farming 105: Harvest understanding of how to harvest and Post Harvest Handling, was and handle farmed seaweed for focused on the essentials of product processing. This will help seaweed handling and processing, young Vinalhaven entrepreneurs and complying with FDA find resources and learn regulations. The course included techniques to put their innovative hands-on sessions on a modern product ideas into action. They will harvest boat, in a drying house, also gain access to a network of and in a milling/packaging facility. aquaculture professionals. We have been working with There’s No Place Like Hurricane. AT AT contributions up to $25,000. DONATE ONLInE A generous board memberWILL match all DOUBLE YOUR IMPACT WHEN YOU DONATE TODAY! hurricaneisland.net . THANK YOU!. Center for Science and Leadership and Science for Center Hurricane Island Hurricane PO Box 1280 • Rockland, ME 04841 1280 • Rockland, PO Box • 207-867-6050 [email protected] Hurricane Island Thank you so much to our supporters! Center for Science and Leadership

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