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Pemaquid Point, Bristol, Maine.

On August 16, this semester’s ESS group made their way to Schoodic Point and moved into a house on the coast of Maine together*—eight students-turned-roommates embarking on a two-month-long learning experience that would change their understanding of the environment, scientific studies, community impact, the connectivity of the planet, and well, everything. Follow along as we share their stories over the next few months—#GreetingsFromESS—it's the next best thing to being there.

Wells, Maine.

Imagine ten weeks spent in a breathtaking place, with eight like-minded strangers-turned-friends, growing together through a shared desire to understand and collaborate with the world around them—two months of immersive learning, pancake-flipping, late-night card games, big questions, big answers, and connections that will last a lifetime. The Environmental Science Semester, also known as the ESS program, gives sophomore and junior students at #SaintJoesMaine the opportunity to learn as a lifestyle, 24-hours a day for 60 days, diving headfirst into five courses: Climate Change, Glacial Geology, Marine Ecology, Oceanography, and Field Methods.

Pemaquid Point, Bristol, Maine.

Beginning in mid-August, ESS students travel to New Hampshire’s White Mountains to view the effects of alpine glaciation, then to eastern Maine, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick to investigate evidence of both Ice Age and tropical climates. The group travels to Cape Cod and to the southern coast of Maine for studies of ecosystem interactions in the marine environment. Finally, in October, students plumb the depths of the Gulf of Maine from a historic Maine schooner.
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Greetings From ESS

Saint Joes November 27, 2020
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Beginning in mid-August, Environmental Science Semester students travel to New Hampshire’s White Mountains to view the effects of alpine glaciation, then to eastern Maine, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick to investigate evidence of both Ice Age and tropical climates. The group travels to Cape Cod and to the southern coast of Maine for studies of ecosystem interactions in the marine environment. Finally, in October, students plumb the depths of the Gulf of Maine from a historic Maine schooner.

Learn more and follow along with notes from the road on Instagram.

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