Bryan Pfeiffer. (Photo courtesy Bryan Pfeiffer)
Coastal Mountains Land Trust will co-host an online Zoom presentation titled “Four Wings and a Million Prayers,” Tuesday, March 9, at 6 p.m., with the Camden Public Library. Presented by writer, biologist, and explorer Bryan Pfeiffer, this talk brings you into the fascinating world of insects.
“Few things on earth express the drama of life as well as insects,” said Coastal Mountains, in a news release. “But with extra eyes, biting or piercing mouth parts, or their roles as pests, insects are to many of us otherworldly. And yet in the raw and wild ways we ourselves like to experience the world, no other animals are more exemplary or accessible. Give Bryan Pfeiffer 45 minutes, and he’ll bring you millions of years of drama, even hope, embodied in three insects: a dragonfly, a butterfly and a caddisfly!”
Spotted salamander egg masses. (Photo by John Burns)
Dr. John Burns of Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences will lead an online presentation called “From Roommates to Intimate Partners,” about the symbiotic relationship between algae and spotted salamander eggs and larva, on Tuesday, March 9 at noon, hosted by Merryspring Nature Center.
Many Mainers are familiar with the Big Night that comes near the beginning of each spring, when yellow spotted salamanders migrate en masse from their underground hideouts to their spring breeding pools. In vernal pools they mate and lay their eggs, which swell to form a dense jelly mass holding around 100 embryos each. These eggs and embryos are colonized by a tiny green alga, which have adapted to one another to both benefit from this arrangement.
Ulf Svedrup to speak from Norway during this weekend’s Camden Conference Fri, 02/19/2021 - 3:45pm
Dr. Ulf Svedrup. (Photo courtesy Camden Conference)
Dr. Ulf Svedrup, director of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, will be joining the 2021 Camden Conference’s Saturday morning session, which will focus on the outlook for development in the Arctic region.
Vidar Helgesen, who was originally planning to speak, has been sidelined with COVID-19 this past week.
“Fortunately, we can report that Mr. Helgesen’s health is improving, but he has recommended Dr. Svedrup as the ideal choice to speak on how ‘A Frozen Region Goes Dynamic,’” said Camden Conference, in a news release.
Leslie Livingston Thu, 02/18/2021 - 9:30am
As the pandemic continues, families continue to face immense stress. It is important, now more than ever, to speak up or act if you are concerned for a child. Healthy Kids is offering through Zoom, the Front Porch Project workshop for any community member who has ever been concerned about a child or family in a public place like the grocery store, or your neighborhood.
The Front Porch Project workshop is three hours and will be offered twice, March 9 from 9 a.m. to noon and March 10 from 4-7 p.m. on Zoom.
The workshop looks at why people do (and don’t) get involved and provides strategies on how you can help by stepping in and supporting families. Specifically, this training teaches you to: Increase your awareness regarding prevention, identify when and how to get involved, increase your comfort level with intervening and differing parenting styles, think about possible responses, understanding the impact of culture, gender a
Leigh Dorsey and Dameon Colbry and their 21-ft open row boat. (Photo courtesy Come Boating!)
Come Boating! concludes its Winter Adventure Series, Tuesday, March 9, at 6:30 p.m., with a slide talk, “Rowing to Wild,” by Leigh Dorsey and Dameon Colbry, about their 10 day row of the entire coast of Maine in 2018.
In August 2018, Dorsey and Colbry rowed the entire coast of Maine in 10 days, starting in Kittery and ending in Lubec. Carrying everything they would need in their 21-ft open row boat, they camped on a different island each night along the way.
Join them for a day-by-day account of their journey accompanied by their photos of the lovely and wild Maine coast.