Frozen Obsession. (Photo courtesy Camden Conference)
Frozen Obsession. (Photo courtesy Camden Conference)
The Camden Conference and Belfast Free Library will present the film
Frozen Obsession, Monday, March 15, at 6 p.m. This is a special opportunity for Camden Conference, as the film will be shown on PBS later in the year.
Frozen Obsession documents the 18-day, 2,000-mile Northwest Passage Project expedition through the Canadian Arctic aboard the Swedish research icebreaker
Oden. The film highlights the research done by scientists and students as they work to understand the consequences of changing climate in the Arctic. As
Frozen Obsession bears witness to a dramatically changing Arctic and the urgent efforts of science to understand the consequences, we gain a sobering assessment of what s at stake. But in a hopeful turn, the film also witnesses the exhilarating life-changing experiences of the students on this expedition, who represent the next generat
Tom Schmeelk. (Photo courtesy Belfast Free Library)
Releasing a salmon into the Penobscot River. (Photo courtesy Belfast Free Library)
This month the Belfast Bay Watershed Coalition in collaboration with the Belfast Free Library will offer two virtual programs on Zoom, one about fish restoration one the Penobscot River, the other about curbing brown tail moth infestation.
The first, on Thursday, March 18, at 6:30 p.m., “What’s New in the Penobscot River?” with fish biologist, Danielle Frechette who will give an overview of diadromous fish restoration in the Penobscot River as a result of the Penobscot River Restoration Project.
Frechette is a Marine Resource Scientist for the Department of Marine Resources, Division of Sea-Run Fisheries and Habitat working on the Penobscot River Restoration Project.
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.
Belfast Climate Crisis Committee to Meet Tuesday, February 16, 2021 4:56 PM Belfast’s Climate Crisis Committee will host its monthly program featuring three young speakers, all involved in promoting efforts to reduce the effects of climate change, on Monday, February 22, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Belfast Free Library will cohost.
Speaker Ania Wright is a recent graduate of College of the Atlantic and serves as a member of the Maine Climate Council. She is also active with Maine Youth for Climate Justice and provides guidance to climate-action teams throughout the state, including those in schools.
Also speaking will be Anna Siegel, a ninth-grader at Waynflete School in Portland, who has been working as an environmental activist for several years.
Paul DeOrsay. (Photo courtesy Camden Conference)
The Camden Conference, Penobscot Marine Museum, and the Belfast Free Library will present Paul DeOrsay in a repeat performance of his talk: Arctic exploration, science, and the Inuit.
The repeat performance will be Wednesday, Feb. 17, at 6 p.m. This event will be open to all on Zoom.
The 19th century saw a prolific bloom of interest in the Arctic among European and North American nations. Some 50 major expeditions were mounted between 1815 and 1909, most in search of a Northwest Passage. Along the way, these expeditions gathered data on geology, oceanography, flora and fauna, magnetism, gravity and astronomy. Later, as it was learned that the passage existed but was essentially impassable, exploration focused on discovering just what lay farther north: an open sea, another continent, or just more ice. Finally, the focus became reaching the North Pole, a somewhat intangible goal, but one that generated public enthusiasm and nationa