Projects

The Wells Reserve completed the first application of environmental DNA techniques to the detection of imperiled rainbow smelt.

How will warming coastal waters affect female lobsters and inshore larval recruitment in the Gulf of Maine?

Margaret A. Davidson Graduate Fellows address key questions that help scientists and communities understand coastal challenges relating to future policy and management issues. Students receive an annual stipend for research and travel.

Friends of Hope Cemetery & Woods wanted to capture and share the history of a Kennebunk landmark, in part by providing a resource for locating graves and preserving the stories of the people buried there. The reserve's GIS lab and students from the University of New England stepped in.

Can climate change induce reproductive failure in American lobster? Case study of a collapsed stock.

Stewardship and mapping of wild and seedling apple trees growing on the property and investigation of their fruit.

Volunteers in the Southern Maine Beach Profile Monitoring Program monitor 13 beaches from York to South Portland for sand erosion and accretion.

Bringing together the shared experiences of National Estuarine Research Reserves in managing conflict during collaborative research projects.

The ¼-mile Webhannet Marsh Trail, along Harbor Road in Wells, is the Wells Reserve's first ADA-compliant trail.

The Site Profile of the Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve, released in 2007, describes aspects of the physical characteristics of the Wells Reserve protected area.