SALISBURY COVE – This summer the Mount Desert Island Water Quality Coalition hosted four teacher internships through the Community Environmental Health Laboratory (CEHL). CEHL is a research and education collaborative with the MDI Biological Laboratory.

Bar Harbor Times Education Section Sept. 30, 2004

Bar Harbor- The summer internship program at The Community Environmental Health Lab (CEHL), which took place at the MDI Bio Lab, was the most successful ever. With 10 interns and five different projects, it was a very busy lab. Nicole Grohoski from Middlebury College served as lab manager and coordinated all field and lab work. Danielle Bartlett from Acadia College and Michelle Brown and Lauren Kuffler from MDI High School monitored for phytoplankton, islandwide. They looked for toxic phytoplankton- those species responsible for red tide. They had more work than they bargained for when the biggest red tide in 40 years hit the coast of Maine in July.