EMCI granted over $30,000 in 2024 to support a wide variety of projects conducted in Washington County, Maine, including:
- An inventory of the status and distribution of seaweeds on offshore islands.
- Support of a local historical society to create a replica 19th century room.
- A clam recruitment monitoring network in Eastern Maine.
- A moss inventory on island environments.
- Establishment of distributional baselines for island land birds in regions of potential climate change refugia.
- Funding of graduate student summer internship to assist in restoring riverine processes and habitat suitability for Atlantic salmon.
- Ongoing mycorrhizal study on island environment.
- Support for University of Maine at Machias Summer Conservation Internship focusing on coastal observation skill development.
- Radiocarbon Dating Eroded Archaeological Sites on Falls Island, Pembroke, Maine.
- Environmental monitoring and conservation of priority coastal Spruce forests in Downeast Maine.
- Support of local high school program to create a vernal pool and study local ecosystems through inventory of native plants and pollinator conservation.
- Improving the accuracy of multispectral drone analysis of harvested rockweed beds.
- Assisting a local museum in the printing of a map and guide that covers local historical sites and cultural information.
- Support of emergency requisition of industrial saltwater pump system to enable ongoing scallop spat study.
- Establishment of baseline vegetation data on remote island environment.