Flintridge Prep Students Travel to Schoodic Institute as Part of their Climate Change Study

In early July, 10 Flintridge Prep students traveled to the Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park (Maine) as part of Prep’s Global Studies project on climate change. In partnership with Earthwatch, students spent time out in the field, laying down quadrats and transects to collect data at tidal pools around Acadia, encountering Maine’s wildlife from green crabs and mussels, to porcupines and even a mink (swipe left for the mink)!

In the lab, they worked on water filtration, data entry, and dissection/digestion of mussels for a microplastic research project. Students helped in researching the long-term changes in Maine’s tidal ecosystem due to decreasing pH levels caused by the Greenland glaciers melting.

“Our knowledge on climate change now extends beyond the classroom and reaches far into the world of devoted professional and citizen scientists who work every day to discover the effects of greenhouse gases,” Matthew Lavichant ’24 and Riya Koh ’23 wrote.

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