Schoodic Institute Appoints Climate Change Adaptation Scientist


Chris Nadeau will build on the nonprofit research center’s climate change work and help evaluate how Acadia and other national parks can adapt.

Via MaineBiz (full story):

Extreme storms, rising sea levels, erosion, the increasing survival of invasive pests — these are just some of the climate change impacts Acadia National Park is seeing.

In response, the Schoodic Institute in Winter Harbor has announced the appointment of a climate change adaptation scientist to evaluate how Acadia and other national parks can adapt.

Chris Nadeau will build on the Winter Harbor nonprofit research center’s work evaluating how the National Park Service and others can adapt management practices to the changing climate.

Nadeau will oversee experimental habitat restoration in the Great Meadow, Bass Harbor Marsh and on mountain summits.

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Friends of Acadia works in partnership with Schoodic Institute and Acadia National Park to respond to Climate Change and help restore park habitats with an innovative forward-thinking approach that manages for future expected environmental conditions rather than looking to the past.