Jordan Chalfant

Ecologist

Jordan Chalfant attended College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine and graduated in 2012 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Human Ecology, focusing on botany and ornithology. Since then, she has collaborated with Maine Natural History Observatory on projects including the Maine Seabird Breeding Atlas, “The Plants of Baxter State Park” field guide, rare plant surveys, and invasive plant management. Her current passion project is creating a field guide to the seaweeds of Maine. Jordan’s other occupations have included working as a contract field biologist for Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge, tour guiding in Acadia National Park, managing The Naturalist’s Notebook– a nature and science bookstore in Seal Harbor, and estate gardening on Mount Desert Island where she lives with her partner Tim and two dogs, Phoebe and Juniper. Jordan maneuvers her free time around low tide, which she spends peering into tidepools, searching for new seaweed species to document.