Kent Island Scientific Station, New Brunswick

The Bowdoin Scientific Station on Kent Island, in the Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick, has run continuously since 1936, with the exception of World War II and the covid years. Undergraduate students engage in field research from April to September, focusing primarily on the remote archipelagos bird populations, but also pollinators, intertidal zones, and forest restoration. Students add to decades long bodies of research, creating uniquely long data sets, including those on savannah sparrows, leach's storm-petrels, tree swallows, macroalgae, and herring gulls. But anthropogenic change reaches even the most remote places, and recent studies show worrying declines in many of the bird populations.