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Summer Field Seminar Calendar
We add seminars as they are scheduled.
Summer Field Seminars. This page features the traditional week-long, in-person, and in-residence field seminars we have been offering since 1987. All are intensive training opportunities that are taught by expert instructors. All involve field trips that are focused on learning about the ecology of species in their natural outdoor environment. The indoor classroom part of these seminars includes lectures, discussions, and lab identifications and studies of specimens that have been collected in the field. They begin with a Sunday late afternoon arrival and dinner at 7 PM, followed by an introductory program. Mondays through Fridays are full teaching days, with meal times as relaxed settings for informal discussions. Evenings are set aside for discussions by the fireplace in the dining hall's comfortable lounge or for follow-up classroom activities. They conclude after breakfast on Saturday.
Other Eagle Hill Natural History Programs:
Fall Weekend Workshops. These in-person and in-residence workshops offer shorter intensive learning opportunites over weekends with expert instructors. We have been offering them since 2014.
Online Seminars. These fully interactive seminars are taught online by expert instructors outside of normal work-week hours, i.e., during evenings (Eastern Time) and on weekends. They are offered by way of Zoom and are interactive without the use of recorded presentations.
Nature Retreats. The Eagle Hill Institute is open for Nature Retreats year-round, for guests who would like to escape to the coast of eastern Maine to immerse themselves in nature.
A nature retreat guest option is available during seminar weeks.
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Natural History Science Programs Overview
| Dates | Title | Instructor(s) |
2023 Summer Field Seminars (Some still pending) |
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| Titles are underlined when a link to the flyers has been added. Those marked with *1, *2, *3* or *4, see the tuition section here. | ||
| May 14 – 20 | Lichens and Lichen Ecology | Troy McMullin |
| May 21 – 27 | Marine Macroalgae: Ecology, Identification, Distribution, and Importance | Amanda Savoie |
| Jun 4 – 10 | Introduction to the Study of Bryophytes | Fred Olday |
| Jun 4 – 10 | Scientific Illustration: Flora and Fauna of Coastal Maine in Pen and Ink | Dolores Santoliquido |
| Jun 11 - 17 | Mosses in the Field: From the Beginning Full. | Jerry Jenkins |
| Jun 11 - 17 | Tardigrade Biology, Ecology, Field Sampling, and Identification | Emma Perry |
| Jun 11 - 17 | Practical Boating Course | Craig Shipp |
| Jun 18 - 24 | Diversity and Biology of Annual Mosses | Bernard Goffinet and William Buck |
| Jun 25 – Jul 1 | Ecology, Diversity, and Identification of Sphagnum Mosses *1 | Jon Shaw |
| Jun 25 – Jul 1 | Natural History of Native Bees: Biology, Ecology, Identification, and Conservation | Nicholas Dorian and Max McCarthy |
| Jul 2 - 8 | Grasses and Sedges as a Way to Read the Landscape | Brett Engstrom and Jerry Jenkins |
| Jul 9 – 15 | Wetland Identification, Delineation, and Ecology *2 | Rick Van de Poll and Joseph Homer |
| Jul 9 –15 | Grass Identification: An In-depth Review | Dennis Magee |
| Jul 16 – 22 | The Worlds of the Ants: Natural History, Cultural History, and Research Perspectives | Aaron Ellison |
| Jul 16 – 22 | Discomycetes and Pyrenomycetes *1 | Andrew Nicholas Miller, Teresa Iturriaga, and Alberto Miguel Stchiegel Glikman |
| Jul 23 – 29 | Ericaceous Heaths and the Ericaceae *1 | Paul Manos and José Meireles |
| Jul 23 – 29 | Spider Biology, Ecology, Field Sampling, and Identification *1 | Kefyn Catley |
| Jul 30 – Aug 5 | Identification Skills for the New Mushroomer: Foraging for Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms *1 | Greg Marley and Michaeline Mulvey |
| Jul 30 – Aug 5 | Field Botany of the Maine Coast: Learning to Network with the iNaturalist Community | Robert Wernerehl |
| Aug 6 – 12 | Lichens, Biofilms, and Stone | Judy Jacob and Michaela Schmull |
| Aug 6 – 12 | Submersed and Emergent Aquatic Flowering Plant *1 | C. Barre Hellquist |
| Aug 13 – 19 | EPT Taxa: The Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, and Trichoptera as Bio-indicators | Steven Burian |
| Aug 13 – 19 | Microlepidoptera: Diversity, Ecology, Field Sampling, and Identification Techniques | Jason Dombroskie |
| Aug 20 – 26 | Ferns and Lycophytes: Identification, Biology, and Natural History *2 | Robbin Moran, Carl Taylor, Alejandra Vasco |
| Aug 20 – 26 | Banding Songbirds and Raptors: Livetrapping, In-hand Aging and Sexing, and Data Collection | Adrienne Leppold, David Brinker, and Alison Fetterman |
| Aug 27 - Sep 2 | Identification of Trees and Woody Plants of the Northern Forest: A Wholistic Approach | Erika Mitchell |
| Aug 27 - Sep 2 | Introduction to the Study Lichens | Fred Olday |
| Sep 10 - 16 | Practical Boating Course | Craig Shipp |
| Sep 24 – 30 | Plein Air Artist's Fall Foliage Retreat on the Coast of Maine *3 | A mentored retreat with an open-house art show |
| Oct 1 – 7 | Ecological Conversations: Coyotes, Humans, and Ethics | Geri Vistein |
| Oct 1 – 7 | Plein Air Artist's Fall Foliage Retreat on the Coast of Maine *3 | A mentored retreat with an open-house art show |
| Oct 8 - 11 (3 days) | Fall Mushrooms in a Changing Climate *4 | David Porter and Michaeline Mulvey |
| Oct 8 – 14 | Plein Air Artist's Fall Foliage Retreat on the Coast of Maine *3 | A mentored retreat with an open-house art show |