Second Century Stewardship Category

Schoodic Institute announces 2025 Acadia Science Fellows

WINTER HARBOR – Two scientists have been awarded Acadia Science Fellowships to conduct research in Acadia National Park. An initiative of Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park supported by the David Evans Shaw Family Foundation and Sibley-Saltonstall Charitable Foundation and individual donors, Acadia Science Fellows inform management and protection of Acadia National Park resources. The […]

Congratulations to the 2024 Acadia Science Fellows

WINTER HARBOR – Two scientists have been awarded Acadia Science Fellowships to conduct research in Acadia National Park. An initiative of the National Park Service, National Park Foundation, Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park, and the David Evans Shaw Family Foundation, Acadia Science Fellows expand the capacity of the National Park Service to understand environmental change […]

Announcing the 2023 fellows

Two scientists have been awarded fellowships to conduct research in Acadia National Park as part of Second Century Stewardship, an initiative of the National Park Service, Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park and the National Park Foundation. The new awards will support research to inform management of forests and wildlife in Acadia and other national […]

A Visit to the Whaleback Shell Mound

Second Century Stewardship founder David Shaw met with Fellow Dr. Bonnie Newsom at the Whaleback shell mound in Damariscotta, Maine, to learn more about these important Wabanaki cultural sites and Newsom’s work to re-interpret archaeological collections from similar shell mounds in Acadia. Second Century Stewardship – Bonnie Newsom from David Shaw on Vimeo.  

Two people wearing backpacks pause at a log in the woods to review maps

It’s field work season in Acadia

photo by Linda Moses Despite delays and complications presented by the global Covid-19 pandemic, Second Century Stewardship fellows are proceeding with field aspects of their research. Jay Wason set out on July 3 to locate six sites in Acadia National Park used by Ronald Davis in his authoritative study of Maine’s coastal spruce forests in […]

2019 Year in Review

2019 was a big year for Second Century Stewardship. We awarded three new fellowships for research in Acadia National Park. The fellowships act as a catalyst to strengthen relationships between park resource managers and the research community, while generating knowledge that is being applied to park management. We describe this in more detail in an […]

Dragonfly Mercury Project at Minamata Convention

The Minamata Convention on Mercury is a global treaty to protect human health and the environment from the adverse effects of mercury. Signatories met in Geneva, Switzerland in November 2019. The Second Century Stewardship film segment on the Dragonfly Mercury Project was shared with the conference of parties by the North American delegation. The Convention […]

Communicating Nor’easter vulnerability for three New England parks

Over the next three years, Second Century Stewardship partners at Schoodic Institute will be working with researchers at University of Rhode Island, Rhode Island School of Design, and the National Park Service to help evaluate Nor’easter storm impact modeling results, visualization tools, and their potential uses and misuses, and working with each park to create […]

Second Century Stewardship awards 2019 fellowships for research in Acadia National Park

Three scientists have been awarded fellowships to conduct research in Acadia National Park as part of Second Century Stewardship, an initiative of the National Park Service and Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park. Second Century Stewardship was launched in 2016 upon the centennial of the National Park Service to provide high quality scientific research for […]