Guide to the Coastal Studies Center Records, 1964-2018
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Cite as: Coastal Studies Center Records, George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine
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The Coastal Studies Center (CSC), founded in 1998, is on Bowdoin College's Thalheimer property, Orr's Island, Maine. The facilities, research support and co-curricular programming offered in this coastal setting encourage student and faculty research on coastal issues and enhance multi-disciplinary courses.
This collection contains ownership history and environmental history of the property that became the Coastal Studies Center, as well as reports with recommendations for the use of the property as a Coastal Studies Center. Also included are the annual reports of the Coastal Studies Center beginning with the first annual report, 2001-2002, as well as brochures, maps, and other printed material.
Arranged chronologically.
1964-1997, undated - Historical material
1989, Report from Environmental Studies course 315
1992, 1996, undated - Miscellaneous correspondence, memos and printed material
1994, Reports - draft proposal for a Coastal Studies Center and an Interim Report
1999, Environmental history of the Coastal Studies Center by Payton Deeks
2001 Sep - 2002 Aug, annual report, number 1 -
2002, report by Joshua P. Atwood, "Stories From Soil, Landscape, and People: Discovering the Land Use History of Bowdoin College's Coastal Studies Center: A Summary of Findings from A Rusack Coastal Studies Fellowship"
Announcements and articles, 2012-
undated, brochure, "Interpretive Trail Guide: Bowdoin College Coastal Studies Center"
undated, maps
Posters, 2016-