STUDENT RESEARCH

Research makes textbook learning come alive.  All Corning School faculty have active research programs and enjoy helping students do research in their labs.  This is possible at many levels.  New students help in the lab or field, assisting others and gaining valuable experience.  More advanced students work on their own portions of larger projects.  Students with special interests design projects with the help of a faculty mentor for independent study credit (OS 499).  All Corning School juniors enroll in OS 400-401 where they learn to design and do research.

Faculty grants also help support students, such as  Drs. Cleveland and Verde's recent collaboration with Maine Maritime students in the Philippines, or the internships of Melissa Lubas, Caitlin Carr and Michelle Harrington here in Maine.  Grant-funded projects have ranged from investigating the circulation of Penobscot Bay in relation to migrating salmon, to studies of beach biota along the Atlantic seaboard, to the behavior of coral reef fish.

Approximately half of Corning School students complete research internships at other institutions or at sea, on oceanographic vessels.  Many others find career-related summer employment, for example, as naturalists on whale watching vessels or as educators at marine theme parks and aquaria.   

Check out what Corning School students have researched recently!