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Ocean Shock: In Maine, warming seas set up lobster boom and bust.Meet the new generation of lobstermen riding high on a sweet spot of climate change. But will fast-warming waters reverse their fortunes?

Aquaculture comes to Hurricane!!This blog is the combined efforts of our Science and Research Director and our Director of Education. Cait Cleaver gives us the perspective of how the Limited Purpose Aquaculture (LPA) licensing process proceeded and Dr. Jenn Page adds in the actual implementation including the fun times we ha

NESSC 2012Archive of DISHS presentation and materials at NESSC "High School Redesign in Action" conference 3/22 & 3/23 2012.

Deer Isle grad conducting stem cell research with Nobel Prize winnerIn October, the Nobel Prize committee announced its choice for the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine to John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to develop into all types of cells in the body. Amy Foley, a 2006 graduate of Deer Isle-Stonington High School, works with Yamanaka as a stem cell biochemist at Gladstone Industries in San Francisco. She works with Yamanaka and her own research is related—focusing on ways for stem cells to repair damaged tissue in the heart after a heart attack.

Deer Isle-Stonington school makes dramatic turnaroundDEER ISLE, Maine — During the 2008-09 school year, Deer Isle-Stonington High School posted academic scores and statistics that weren’t just below state averages. They were below pretty much every other school in Maine. Just 57 percent of students graduated on time that year, the lowest rate of any school [...]

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