Beginning on the Wilson Museum Campus
Includes boating to an island in eastern Penobscot Bay

The Wilson Museum is excited to be partnering with Midden Minders and Maine Coast Heritage Trust to offer hands-on training for future “Midden Minders” on Thursday, August 8.

Midden Minders is a citizens-science project to document and monitor erosion of Wabanaki ancestral shell heaps along the coast of what is now Maine.

For this new partnership, the Wilson Museum will host Midden Minders for a training that will include an introduction to the program and its methodology. We will then travel with Maine Coast Heritage Trust to an island they steward in eastern Penobscot Bay for field training on the methods used to monitor vulnerable shell heaps.

The day will start at 9:00 am at the museum’s Hutchins Education Center for a short introduction. We will then make the short trip to the Castine town dock and board the boats to head out to the island. We expect to return to Castine by about 4:00 pm.