By Rich Hewitt
Monday, April 23, 2007 - Bangot Daily News

BLUE HILL - When volunteers begin monitoring coastal waters this year, they’ll use a new method designed to provide more information about the phytoplankton that causes red tide, and help researchers predict red tide occurrences along the Maine coast.

Alison Sirois, volunteer coordinator for the Maine Department of Marine Resources, is traveling the coast to meet with the 60 or so volunteers who monitor about 46 sites along the coast from Cape Porpoise to Eastport to teach them the new method.

Salisbury Cove- The MDI Water Quality Coalition offered an Environmental Stewardship Through Service Learning Teacher Workshop on Tuesday, October 18th, 4:00-7:30pm at the MDI Biological Laboratory. This was a workshop for teachers ready to engage students in authentic environmental stewardship projects in their community and was made possible by funding from Maine Community Foundation and support from the MDI Biological Laboratory.

June 2, 2005
Bar Harbor Times Education Section

The Mount Desert 7th and 8th graders have teamed up with the MDI Water Quality Coalition to conduct an optical brightener study in Stanley Brook. An optical brightener study will provide information about whether the high bacteria counts that plague the brook in the summer months originate from sewage, or comes from other sources such as animal waste.

The Conners Emerson 8th graders partnered with the Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and the MDI Water Quality Coalition to plant a vegetative buffer on Eddie Brook. The planting took place on May 11th on the bank of the brook that abuts the Conners Emerson playground.