The Schoodic Education and Research Center (SERC) is open for business. 

As many regular visitors to Schoodic already know, SERC occupies what was once the Navy base at Schoodic Point. The Navy base, extending over approximately 100 acres on Big Moose Island, was transferred to the National Park Service and Acadia National Park on July 1, 2002. After considering alternative uses for the site, and after gathering input from citizens and other interested groups, the Park Service decided to use the facility as a Research Learning Center, one of thirteen such centers across the United States operated by the Park Service.

As part of its effort to develop the learning center, the Park Service created Acadia Partners for Science and Learning, a non-profit organization dedicated to managing the center and ensuring its financial success.

SERC's mission is to "facilitate education and research to promote the understanding, protection, and conservation of natural and cultural resources of the National Park System and related research at the regional, national, and international levels." Consequently, there is a focus on research that takes place within the Park.

Acadia Partners, in its effort to bring people from outside the Park in to make use of the facilities, is reaching out to colleges, universities, and to local governments and non-governmental organizations along the Downeast coast. Acadia Partners works to use the facilities at SERC as a place to bring people with natural resources expertise together with the citizens and decision makers who need access to such expertise. 

Friends of Schoodic, as well as Friends of Acadia as a whole, is engaged in working with the staff at Acadia National Park and with Acadia Partners for Science and Learning to help ensure the success of the education and research center.

Acadia Partners for Science and Learning maintains a website that provides current information about upcoming events at SERC, many of which are open to the public. The website also provides information about arranging to use the SERC facilities for meetings and conferences, as well as articles and analysis about local natural resource issues. The website is at www.acadiapartners.org.