Maine Lakes Transparency, Color & Chemistry: Overall Mean Values
Bacon, Linda

This data set contains overall mean values for Secchi transparency, color and a series of water chemistry parameters for surveyed Maine lakes. Data were collected by Maine DEP (MDEP), the Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program (VLMP) [...] [ click to read more ]


Maine lakes water quality - pH, color, conductivity, alkalinity (by date)
Bacon, Linda

This data set contains pH, color, conductivity and alkalinity data for Maine lakes, by date of collection. Data were collected by ME DEP, Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program and other organizations. Data are provided by ME [...] [ click to read more ]


Maine lakes water quality - chlorophyll (by date)
Bacon, Linda

This data set contains chlorophyll data for Maine lakes sampled by ME DEP, Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program and other organizations. Data were provided by Linda Bacon, ME DEP.

Data are current through the 2018 sampling year.

To [...] [ click to read more ]


Maine lakes water quality - total phosphorus (by date)
Bacon, Linda

This data set contains total phosphorus data for Maine lakes, by date of collection. Data were collected by ME DEP, Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program and other organizations. Data are provided by ME Dept. of Environmental [...] [ click to read more ]


Maine lakes water quality - Secchi transparency (by date)
Bacon, Linda

This data set contains Secchi transparency data for Maine lakes, by date of collection. Data were collected by ME DEP, Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program and other organizations. Data are provided by ME Dept. of Environmental [...] [ click to read more ]


Maine lakes water quality - temperature & dissolved oxygen profiles
Bacon, Linda

This data set contains water temperature and dissolved oxygen data for Maine lakes. These data are current through 2018. Data were collected by ME Dept. of Environmental Protection, the Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program and other [...] [ click to read more ]


Maine Lakes Transparency, Color & Chemistry: Annual Mean Values
Bacon, Linda

This data set contains annual mean values (with maxima and minima) for Secchi transparency, color and a series of water chemistry parameters for surveyed Maine lakes. Data were collected by Maine Department of Environmental Protection [...] [ click to read more ]


Mercury contamination in fishes of Mount Desert Island and a comparative food chain mercury study
Burgess, John R.

To assess the scope of mercury contamination in lakes within and surrounding Acadia National Park, mercury concentrations were deteremined in fish species of ten lakes on Mount Desert Island, Maine, USA.  Five fish of the [...] [ click to read more ]


Lake fish surveys (Maine): 1938-1944
Cooper, G.; J. Fuller

G. Cooper and colleagues conducted detailed lake surveys of Maine lakes in the 1930s and 1940s. In addition to species lists, the fisheries data include relative abundance, food habits and age-growth. Other data generated [...] [ click to read more ]


Profundal chironomid communities in Maine lakes (data set)
Courtemanch, David

Profundal chironomid communities were sampled in late winter. The chironomid data were used to assign a chironomid-based lake type to each of the study lakes, based on Saether's 1979 lake classification scheme, which defines a [...] [ click to read more ]


Relationships between profundal chironomid communities, water quality, and the lake classification system in Maine
Courtemanch, David L

This study used a group 49 lakes with varying trophic state but which are geographically close and morphometrically similar to assess the use of the chironomid fauna as an alternative lake classification technique.

To view data [...] [ click to read more ]


A biological survey of the lakes and ponds of Mount Desert Island, and the Union and Lower Penobscot river drainage systems
Fuller, John L.//Cooper, Gerald P.
The report provides information from a detailed survey of fish, water quality and other limnological parameters in lakes of Mount Desert Island, and the Union and Lower Penobscot drainages.

To download the REPORT, click click to read more ]


Survey of freshwater aquatic vegetation of Acadia National Park : preliminary report based on 1995 field inventory
Greene, Craig W.

FIELD WORK: 28 July - 21 August1995.

Greene et al. surveyed 39 ponds, lakes, and streams in Acadia National Park (ANP) and Mount Desert Island (MDI).  The vascular flora of ANP freshwaters includes approximately 80 [...] [ click to read more ]


Survey of freshwater aquatic vegetation of Acadia National Park
Greene, Craig W.//Hellquist, C. Barre//Gregory, Linda

The authors surveyed 39 ponds, lakes, and streams in Acadia National Park (ANP) and Mount Desert Island (MDI). Field work was carried out 28 July to 21 August 1995, and 22 July to 9 September [...] [ click to read more ]


Survey of aquatic plants of Acadia National Park (data set)
Greene, Craig; Hellquist, Barre; Gregory, Linda

This dataset is derived from the study by Greene et al. (1999) of the aquatic plants of Mount Desert Island, Schoodic Peninsula & Isle au Haut.

To download the data set, click HERE.

Data were digitized [...] [ click to read more ]


Audubon Loon Counts: Maine
Maine Audubon

To DOWNLOAD this data file (and metadata), click HERE .

 (Note: If your screen displays the file "AudubonLoonCounts_Maine.zipx, please ignore this file - it is an old version of the data)

The data reported here are [...] [ click to read more ]


Lake fish of Maine
Maine Dept. of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife

To open data file, click HERE.

This data set contains lists of fish species in Maine lakes and are derived from MDIFW's lake survey database (2007 update). The database contains a listing of all fish [...] [ click to read more ]


Lake associations & environmental organizations in Maine
Maine Lake Monitoring Program

This file contains a list of lake associations and conservation / environmental organizations that work, in some capacity, with lakes in Maine.  The data include the MIDAS codes and names of lakes present in the [...] [ click to read more ]


Acadia National Park - Lake monitoring report: 2002-2005
Seger, Emily M.; W.G. Gawley; R.M. Breen

Freshwater fishes of Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine
Stone, Jennifer//Le, Bao. C.//Moring, John R.
FIELD WORK: 1998, 1999
A list of freshwater fishes is presented for Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine, based on past survey records, published and unpublished reports, and recent comprehensive surveys within or bordering [...] [ click to read more ]

Freshwater mussels of Maine
Swartz, Beth (data provider)

This data set contains the results of the statewide freshwater mussel survey conducted under the direction of MDIFW. Most of the survey was conducted between 1992 and 2009. In addition to survey-collected samples, there are [...] [ click to read more ]


Lake fish of Maine: Google Earth map
Vaux, P. (compiler). Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife (data source)

The map displays surveyed lakes, list of fish species at each lake and fishery management type (as designated by MDIFW).

Data may be viewed in this Google Earth file: Lake_fish.kmz.

Lists of fish species in Maine [...] [ click to read more ]


Assessment of natural resource conditions in and adjacent to Acadia National Park
Vaux, P., Nelson, S., Rajakaruna, N., Mittelhauser, G., Bell, K., Kopp, B., Peckenham, J. and Longsworth, G.
Download the report HERE.

This report is an assessment of condition of the natural resources of Acadia National Park (ACAD) and an evaluation of the threats and stressors that act on these resources. A variety [...] [ click to read more ]


Zooplankton community structure and dynamics in lakes of contrasting water clarity in Acadia National Park
Whitmore, Elizabeth A.//Webster, Katherine E.

To download the report, click HERE.

"This research has three objectives: (1) characterize seasonal patterns and relationships in the zooplankton communities (e.g., cladoceran and copepods) in the eight Acadia National Park (ANP) eutrophication study lakes; [...] [ click to read more ]