Maine Sea Grant

Maine Sea Grant is excited to announce our 2026 cohort of undergraduate scholars, who hail from the University of Maine Orono, Maine Maritime Academy, the College of the Atlantic, and the University of New England. Our undergraduate scholars program provides tuition and research funding assistance to allow passionate students to pursue research interests in various […]

Not many students spend their undergraduate internships contributing directly to the conservation of endangered species. But for our five sea-run interns this summer, who worked with Atlantic Sturgeon, Shortnose Sturgeon, and Atlantic Salmon, protecting iconic species was just another day in the life.  Their work took them throughout the state, collecting data  alongside teams at […]

In October, Maine Sea Grant’s Dana Morse spent two weeks in Japan, as part of a celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Maine-Aomori sister-state relationship, and as part of a technology transfer exchange on scallop farming, between a group of growers and scientists from Maine, and scallop farmers, equipment manufacturers and processors in Aomori […]

Maine Sea Grant at the University of Maine is thrilled to announce the comprehensive update and re-release of Accessing the Maine Coast, a long-standing web resource containing information to help waterfront users, coastal communities, businesses, landowners, and others address issues related to coastal access and working waterfronts in Maine. The intent of this website is […]

Contributor: Kara Chuang, University of Maine graduate supported by Maine Sea Grant and former Knauss Fellow If you ask any previous Knauss Fellow what their time in the fellowship was like, they’ll most likely use a number of words to describe it: intense, fast-paced, energetic, extraordinary, profound. And how can it be anything else? The […]

How Maine scientists are reading the carbon story in salt marshes—and why restoring tidal flow may be a key to climate resilience. In 2022, Maine Sea Grant funded a study led by Beverly Johnson (Bates College) and Claire Enterline (Gulf of Maine Research Institute), measuring carbon gas emissions (methane) and carbon absorption in marshes along […]

Coastal Conversations show: June 25, 2025WERU 89.9 in Blue Hill and 99.9 in Bangor Host Catherine Devine, Cathy and Jim Gero Acadia Early Career Fellow in Science Communication, Schoodic Institute  This episode Naturalist Laura Sebastianelli has dedicated her summers to recording all the bird songs in Acadia National Park. We follow Laura on her chase […]

Contributor: Alicia Gaiero, Maine Sea Grant Fisheries Extension Associate, Outreach Coordinator for the Innovative Gear Library Since joining Maine Sea Grant in January, I’ve had the opportunity to support a forward-looking project in Maine’s lobster fishing industry: the Innovative Fishing Gear Library. This initiative was launched by the Maine Department of Marine Resources in response […]