Our Sites

The Gulf of Maine Institute Teams (click link for map) have projects in progress at their home sites. To make their work more accessible and visual to the public each team has created a map of their project area. Clicking on the site team location below will take you to a map of their project area. These maps are under development and being updated by the teams as their work progresses.

Projects

Essex Pulls Pepperweed

See: http://www.thebostonchannel.com/video/16480815/index.html

Current CBI Team Projects: The Chelsea MA, Green Space team turned a degraded urban saltmarsh into an urban park/preserve involving over 1,000 other community members.  The Newburyport MA, team studied the saltmarsh, invasive perennial pepperweed, alerted the community, organized pepperweeed pulls and eliminated the invader from fragile saltmarsh areas, involving over 1,850 others over a two-year period.

In the Maritimes the Tantramar Wetlands team, Sackville, New Brunswick, is banding and tested migratory fowl for bird flu virus and presenting their results to regional and federal agencies and the community. In Nova Scoita, the Barrington High School team is working on dune restoration, PIping Plover habitat and protection, their school grounds, and an adopt-a-stream project on the Barrington River. The Yarmouth Junior High School team has adopted Broard Brook, they town's future Central Park greenway. The Digby/Islands Consolidated School team has adopted the Northeast Cove watershed and is doing environmental studies and proposing trail connections to the community. The Bear River Reserve team is studying eel habitat and talking with Elders to gain knowledge of traditional heritage places on their reserve.

Through these CBI initiatives, New England and Canadian Maritime youth are developing networks across political boundaries to better understand and steward a joint ecosystem. These relationships will lead to international collaboration.  A clean, sustainable Gulf of Maine watershed is of enormous importance economically and recreationally as is a replicable model for other watersheds throughout the US and abroad.