Maine Sea Grant

Two UMaine graduates are working on national marine policy issues as Dean John A. Knauss Fellows. While their placements have just begun, we checked in with Karen Pianka and Noah Oppenheim to see how things were going so far. Their answer? “It’s been a whirlwind.” Karen Pianka studied aquaculture-related issues with Dr. Paul Rawson and Dr. Teresa […]

Preface by Natalie Springuel A few years ago, I had the great pleasure of facilitating a meeting of the newly forming Gull Working Group, an alliance of gull researchers in eastern North America. The meeting was hosted by John Anderson, faculty at College of the Atlantic (where my Sea Grant marine extension office is located). […]

by Elisabeth A. Maxwell Before I ever thought of attending the University of Maine, I knew about the iconic New England Clam Chowder. It was a menu item that seemed a staple for any seafood restaurant, regardless of which coastline I visited. Back then, I never would have thought that one day I would be […]

The Maine Sea Grant Scholar Program supports graduate students in the Marine Science/Marine Policy dual-degree program at the University of Maine. We’ve asked scholars to provide periodic updates on their work. Here’s a report from one of our new students, Mackenzie Mazur, who is working with Teresa Johnson and Yong Chen. I started graduate work […]

The December broadcast of Coastal Conversations on WERU-FM will be all about Maine’s winter holiday seafood traditions, past and present. As part of our research, we rode the ferry out to Islesboro to visit with food historian Sandy Oliver. It seemed appropriate to sit in her kitchen, an open space dominated by an Atlantic wood-burning […]

Freshwater fishing on Mount Desert Island is a tradition that predates the creation of Acadia National Park and continues to this day. Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island Historical Society, and Maine Sea Grant are working together to document the history of Mount Desert Island’s freshwater and diadromous fish populations. Nobody knows fish habits better […]

NOTE: Please visit oystertrailmaine.org for the latest information. It’s Spring of 2015, and the wheels of oyster tourism in the state of Maine have most certainly started to spin.  Last year, two companies just started to dip their proverbial toes in the waters of tourism and found to their satisfaction that America’s renewed love affair […]