The Wrack

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Jennifer Seavey as the new Executive Director, effective January 5, 2026. Dr. Seavey brings deep family roots in Maine and more than two decades of leadership in marine science, conservation, and community-centered coastal resilience across the Gulf of Maine.

View the Fall 2025 issue of Watermark, our member newsletter.

The Wells Reserve at Laudholm just launched a new online mapping tool to aid coastal communities in southern Maine working to address coastal flooding and erosion. Read on to learn more about this tool and its uses.

Emma Knudson, NOAA Hollings Scholar and Summer Camp Assistant, reflects on her experience this summer.

Last week, we installed a brand-new weather station here on our Laudholm campus, with a little help from our friends!

View the Summer 2025 issue of Watermark, our member newsletter.

Eileen Willard knows trees, turtles, birds, books, and the Wells Reserve!

This acquisition marks a significant milestone in an ongoing coastal resilience project with the town of Wells that will ultimately replace a failing bridge on Drakes Island Road and restore vulnerable coastal marshland.

Reserve education staff members Suzanne Kahn and Caryn Beiter reconnected with Portland High School summer camp alumni and their teachers on a trip to the New England Aquarium. It was a fun and educational day with many firsts!

Due to changes in the landscape, the kestrel, like so many other wildlife species, is in decline in the northeast. We just installed our first American Kestrel nesting box as part of a local collaborative effort to reverse the decline of this magnificent bird.