The Gulf of Maine Institute (GOMI) is dedicated to touching, moving and inspiring people to become involved in promoting and taking action in healthy stewardship for the Gulf of Maine and its watershed. Founded in 1997 by a dedicated group of community-based environmental activists, educators, and scientists from Atlantic Canada and New England, and directed by Dr. John Terry, we believe that youth need to be engaged today--as involved citizens, future scientists, decision makers, and cultural transmitters--in the preservation of the Gulf of Maine and its watershed.
GOMI's Student Goals Include:
Exposing young people to environmental sciences
through community-based, experiential programming
Promoting idea exchanges among members of community-based projects across the watershed to help ensure the vitality of the Gulf of Maine and its watershed.
GOMI's Educational Goals Include:
Training educators and community leaders in program delivery, action planning, organizing, marketing, and fundraising to grow and sustain this initiative
Providing a replicable educational model
GOMI's Community Goals Include:
Increasing public
awarenessof the
Gulf of Maine and its watershed throughout the
bio-region via the Internet and our publishing
program
Creating community support by publishing a controlled circulation, youth-authored, scientific, print, and electronic newsletter
Developing a replicable and sustainable stewardship model
Achievements
Among its programmatic
achievements, GOMI has demonstrated that:
Teams composed of youth and adults eager
to investigate local and regional watershed issues
can successfully be assembled from across the
Gulf of Maine bioregion
Elementary, middle, and high school youth
can learn and build community together along with
their adult partners
Urban, suburban, and rural young people
and adults can work together in common cause
Education projects based on a CYD approach
are powerful, viable, educationally sound and
community-beneficialapproaches to learnin
