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		<title>SEEES Speaker Series</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cornell University is sponsoring the Sustainable Earth, Energy, and Environmental Systems (SEEES) speaker series for Fall 2010, featuring all new topics and speakers. The theme for this year is: the interwoven challenge of energy, climate, and the environment in the human and natural world. The series is designed especially for college freshmen and sophomores, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.goshoals.org/island/blog/?p=666</link>
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		<title>The Shoals Experience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Molly Smith &#8217;12, a natural resources major at Cornell, is no stranger to Shoals. She is the granddaughter of the lab&#8217;s founding director, John Kingsbury, and has traveled to Appledore with her parents &#8212; who met there decades ago &#8212; all her life. But this summer, for the first time, she arrived on the island [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.goshoals.org/island/blog/?p=663</link>
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		<title>The beautifully brutal life of gulls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Carl Zimmer: This week I’m on the Island of Science Writing. Today we wandered rocky coves with Tufts University biologist Julie Ellis, an expert on gulls. She showed us how to catch and band juvenile herring gulls–and how to recognize the matted remains of juvenile herring gulls coughed up by their great black-backed gulls [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.goshoals.org/island/blog/?p=658</link>
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		<title>I Am Cornell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To those of you still out on the island now&#8230; or SML alumni&#8230; post an I Am Cornell picture and send us a link? (Ken Stuart)]]></description>
		<link>http://www.goshoals.org/island/blog/?p=653</link>
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		<title>Gull Chicks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a very cute video with a gull chick breaking out of its egg &#8211; a learning moment for Shoals students. (Thanks Amy Warren!)]]></description>
		<link>http://www.goshoals.org/island/blog/?p=648</link>
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		<title>Animal Behavior Society 2010 Film Festival</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Signals for Survival, produced by Marc Dantzker &#038; David Brown, won a competition at the Animal Behavior Society&#8217;s 2010 Film Festival. Footage was taken on Appledore Island, our favorite gull nesting colony! Signals for Survival is a documentary on the communication systems used by Great Black–backed Gulls and Herring gulls. Here&#8217;s the Amazon link and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.goshoals.org/island/blog/?p=644</link>
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		<title>Shoals class experiment analyzes seaweed harvested</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As part of a year-long experiment on Appledore Island, six miles off the southern Maine coast, students and instructors cut rockweed, a brown seaweed (Ascophyllum nodosum) that anchors to the rocks where the ocean meets the island. Some strands were shorn at their holdfasts on the rocks, others were cut at 16 inches, and yet [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.goshoals.org/island/blog/?p=640</link>
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		<title>Shoals in CALS News</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On June 30, student interns at the Shoals Marine Lab activated 15 new solar panels, bringing the remote marine facility another step closer to energy independence. The panels, purchased through grant and donor funds, will generate electricity for Cornell’s teaching island&#8230; Read More or View Photos.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.goshoals.org/island/blog/?p=637</link>
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		<title>Ecology of Animal Behavior: In the News</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After the bird walk, the students spread out along the island&#8217;s shoreline to measure the length of rockweed, a brown algae growing on the rocks. The students were tackling the question of whether they thought the rockweed would be longer low on the rocks, where it spends more time completely submerged as the tide rises, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.goshoals.org/island/blog/?p=630</link>
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		<title>Gulls at the Isles of Shoals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an incredible set of photographs of gulls at the Isles of Shoals, complete with captions, from Rye Reflections: Even though I grew up in the Seacoast and was familiar with the sight and sound of gulls, I had never truly experienced gulls until seeing them during breeding season on Appledore Island. They take over [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.goshoals.org/island/blog/?p=625</link>
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