“How To Catch A Salmon” appears in the Rivers of Ink: Literary Reflections on the Penobscot, featuring a mosaic of … More
Author: C. Schmitt
The marshes are rising
Salt marshes exist in a narrow plane between low and high tides. For decades, coastal ecologists have worried that marshes … More
The Fate of the Forests in the Sea
From Captain Cook’s Endeavor to Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance, the wrecks of wooden ships and their encounters with one of the … More
City trees, urban forests
On Earth Day 2007, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced MillionTreesNYC, a partnership of the nonprofit New York Restoration … More
On the road with the Dragonfly Mercury Project
In April I traveled to Texas to coordinate a science communication workshop for National Park Service and other federal agency … More
Changing the language of land
Some thoughts on how we talk about the world around us – words that are, at the very least, overused, … More
Discoveries
Scientists like to use the word discover, as if they suddenly know something that has never been known, witnessed, thought … More
Northern White Cedar
Some things are so familiar, so common, that they are often overlooked. Such is the case with northern white cedar … More
A new age of barnacles
Do you know where you belong? How do you decide to “settle down” and make a home? For answers, consider … More
Tracking the health of Acadia’s lakes
Covering 7.5 percent of Acadia National Park, lakes here are unique for their coastal mountainous setting. Scant minerals shed by … More
Catherine Schmitt 