BANGOR DAILY NEWS • October 30, 2021
Ed Lindsey’s science classroom at Old Town High School was buzzing with life on Friday. The half dozen students in his collaborative research class were moving between lab stations getting glass jars of the chemical mixture soda lime ready and preparing contraptions to place outside until the spring. Those contraptions will collect whatever the soil releases, which could tell us how climate change is affecting the ability of Maine’s forests to hold in carbon dioxide and, therefore, mitigate climate change. The students’ field research is part of a collaboration with researchers from the University of New Hampshire.