Coastal Conversations Radio Program: Acadia Summits

Coastal Conversations Show: 25 April 2025

Hosts: Catherine Devine, Cathy and Jim Gero Acadia Early Career Fellow in Science Communication, Schoodic Institute

This Episode

In this episode of Schoodic Institute’s Sea to Trees podcast we discuss the degradation occurring on Acadia’s summits, and a community-driven effort to bring vegetation back. The effort, called Save Our Summits, mobilized members of Acadia’s community to hike soil up two mountains in Acadia. But, what happens next? How is this soil put to work?

To answer this question we speak to Chris Nadeau, Climate Change Adaptation Scientist at Schoodic Institute and one of the creative minds behind Save Our Summits. We also talk to Save Our Summits volunteers and attendees, and we close with a conversation with Ivan Fernandez, Professor at University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute and School of Forest Resources, who addresses the challenges of preserving specific characteristics of ecosystems and the importance of resilience and adaptation in the face of climate change.

Coastal Conversations is supported by Maine Sea Grant in partnership with Schoodic Institute and The First Coast.

Guests

Chris Nadeau, Climate Change Adaptation Scientist at Schoodic Institute 

Ivan Fernandez, Professor at University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute and School of Forest Resource

For more information

How to Save a Summit | Schoodic Institute

Listen to the show on WERU archives

More information about Coastal Conversations Radio Program