Blog Entry Archives - Maine Sea Grant

Maine Sea Grant's Keri Kaczor and Ohio Sea Grant's Jill Bartolotta pose with Hawaii Sea Grant's Marine Extension Team Leader, Darren Okimoto, and Education Staff Gavin Iwai, Anne Rosa, Morgan Mamizuka and two seasonal educators.

An Educator’s Exchange Trip of a Lifetime

Contributed by Keri Kaczor, Maine Sea Grant’s Environmental Literacy and Workforce Development Program Manager. As the education and workforce development lead for Maine Sea Grant, I have the honor of serving as our program’s liaison to the Sea Grant Educators Network (SGEN) that connects program educators from coastal and great lakes states. In 2023, the […]

Three people sit around a dining room table with three vases of wildflowers in the center. On the right, a student with headphones uses a hand-held recording device to document the stories of a man in a green vest. Another student sits at the table with them, listening.

Mapping Ocean Stories

Mapping Ocean Stories: Documenting and Sharing Voices from Maine Abigail Muscat, Maine Sea Grant Intern and Natalie Springuel, Maine Sea Grant Marine Extension Program Leader Stories are important. Yarns shared in the fish house, updates swapped on the dock, or stories told at the kitchen table all help us remember who we are as a […]

Navigating Offshore Wind in the Gulf of Maine

Author: Rachel Manuela Elsa Hale served as the Maine Offshore Wind Research Consortium Development Intern from May 2023 through October 2023, working with Maine Sea Grant staff and staff from the Maine Governor’s Energy Office (GEO) to provide support for the Maine Offshore Wind Research Consortium. Rachel continues to add capacity to our Maine Sea […]

UMaine Civil Engineering Graduate Student will Help Build Capacity for Coastal Resilience in Downeast Maine

Coastal communities in Maine have identified a lack of capacity to address climate change impacts on infrastructure as a persistent challenge in their efforts to increase resilience. Maine Sea Grant recently selected Alisha Shrestha, a PhD student in the civil engineering program at UMaine, for a fellowship that will begin to tackle this challenge. “My […]

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Working Together to Reduce Single-Use Plastic Packaging Waste at the Source

Contributor: Beth Bisson, Associate Director, Maine Sea Grant On a beautiful Saturday morning in September, Maine Sea Grant staff and University of Maine faculty and students met at the Harpswell Town Office to pick up trash bags and data sheets to participate in a Maine Coastweek Coastal Cleanup. The annual statewide cleanups, coordinated by the […]

2 people stand on dock next to a lobster boat in the water.

Challenges and Opportunities for Social and Economic Science in the American Lobster Fishery

Authors: Kat Maltby is a postdoctoral research associate at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute (GMRI) whose work examines the social resilience of the Maine and southern New England lobster fishery; Kanae Tokunaga, a senior scientist at GMRI, and Alexa Dayton, the executive director of the Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries, have worked to explore […]

Cover of the 2023 Maine Community Resilience Workbook.

New Resource for Climate Adaptation in Maine

Communities across Maine are already experiencing the impacts of climate change and are taking proactive steps to adapt and build resilience. To support these efforts, a new resource called the “Maine Community Resilience Workbook” has been developed. This workbook is intended for municipalities and service providers working on climate change-related projects. Its concepts and resources […]

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Seabirds of Passamaquoddy Bay

Chris Bartlett is a member of the Maine Sea Grant extension team. Maine hosts several festivals each spring to celebrate the return of migrating birds that nest in northern areas of the continent. Ecotourism efforts focused on bird watching have been growing in the United States, contributing up to $41 billion to the US economy […]

Reflection from a Program Advisory Committee member

Contributor: Jay McCreight served as a member of the Maine Sea Grant Program Advisory Committee from 2019 to 2022. I first became familiar with Maine Sea Grant as a member of the state legislature’s Marine Resources Committee. At the time, I had just been elected to represent House District 51, which includes Harpswell, Bath, and […]

Krissa Davis smiles for the camera with a body of water in the background.

UMaine Graduate student completes Maine Sea Grant-Native American Programs Collaborative Research Assistantship

Krissa Davis recently completed a Maine Sea Grant-Native American Programs Collaborative Research Assistantship. The assistantship was designed to build research collaborations with Maine Sea Grant and the Wabanaki Tribal Nations in what is now Maine and help train the next generation of transdisciplinary researchers with expertise in stakeholder engagement and interdisciplinary research. Krissa played an […]