Mercury resources, useful for students:

• Podcast about mercury at Acadia, a good starting place for teachers and students interested in watersheds
• Fact sheet about mercury at Acadia - companion to podcast above
• Mercury Connections report, BioDiversity Research Institute (pdf file)
• Mercury Matters report, Hubbard Brook Research Foundation (pdf file)

Resources about fish and eels:

• Distribution map and graph
• PEARL fish data sets - some are not functioning but we will eventually link them more directly here.
• Recent article about eels in National Geographic

Resources about dragonflies & damselflies:

• Dragonfly nymph (or larvae) identification key
• Maine Dragonfly and Damselfly Survey (MDDS) project

More generally, aquatic macroinvertebrates:

• Macroinvertebrate key - looks like a really useful one.
• Macroinvertebrates - from the UK, but includes a bit of info about what each type generally eats.
• Make your own D-Nets
• A great guide book to inverts, highly recommended, J. R. Voshell, Jr. A guide to common freshwater invertebrates of North America. around $23 here.
• Link to Maine Department of Environmental Protection's biomonitoring data and information

For a description of the Acadia Learning Project, see our main page here.