Colby College finding purpose for Midcoast islands once home to the Wyeths.

The Waterville college is working to expand its programming on Allen and Benner islands, which have hosted resident student fellows and other visitors since Colby purchased them last year.

ALLEN ISLAND — The tide is low, so the rockweed on the south end of Allen Island glints in the midafternoon sun. Margaret Staller climbs over the slick rocks, taking careful steps in her tall brown boots. She crouches over the tide pool and begins to count.

Staller, 22, graduated from Colby College in the spring. She is one of four students who are living and working on Allen Island for the entire summer. For weeks, she has been gathering samples of snails and analyzing them for what she hopes will be her first paper in a peer-reviewed journal. On this day, she joined a faculty member and three student researchers who were visiting the island for a week to gather data in the rocky intertidal zone.'>

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