Maine Sea Grant

by Maine Sea Grant’s Annie Fagan As an outdoor educator and now a marine extension associate with Maine Sea Grant, I love when my passions for experiential learning and aquaculture can collide. This is exactly what happened at the end of May at our inaugural Aquaculture Bootcamp. Aquaculture in Shared Waters is a longstanding seminar-style […]

This project was partially funded with Maine Sea Grant program development funds. Maine Sea Grant supports scientific research that addresses issues of importance to Maine’s coastal communities through a biennial research competition and project development funds for seed or pilot projects. More information is available on our Funding page. Across the state of Maine, a […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]