Maine Sea Grant

NOTE: This blog was written by Jacque Miller, a graduate student at the University of Maine, working on a Sea Grant-funded project with Dr. Alice Kelley I left Kansas in June of this year to begin a Master’s program in Earth and Climate Sciences at UMaine, Orono with Dr. Alice Kelley. The project I work on is titled […]

Along the coast of Maine are places where, twice each day, rivers flow backwards and then forwards in an everchanging diorama of freshwater, saltwater, rollocking rapids and tranquil calms. These are the eight “tidal” or “reversing” falls, found where rivers and bays make a narrow passage to meet the sea. These places are not many. In Harpswell, […]

NOTE: This blog was written by Thew Suskiewicz, a graduate student at Université Laval in Quebec working on a Sea Grant funded project with Dr. Robert Steneck  These are dynamic times for the Gulf of Maine. Over the past decade, water temperatures here have risen faster than almost anywhere on the planet, and already fishermen and researchers are noticing drastic […]

The following story on Signs of the Seasons: A New England Phenology Program was published on the NOAA Education and Outreach Facebook page on August 9, 2016. By NOAA Education and Outreach  Signs of the Seasons is a New England #CitizenScience program with two purposes: to train and support volunteer observers to collect robust phenology […]

A new publication by Dr. Yong Chen and colleagues, “An evaluation of underlying mechanisms for ‘fishing down marine food webs‘” takes a closer look at a metric, mean trophic level, commonly used to evaluate fishery sustainability. This paper adds to a long list of publications by Dr. Chen addressing the emergent patterns and underlying processes involved in the management […]

NOTE This blog post was written by Marissa McMahan, a graduate student at Northeastern University, working on a Sea Grant funded project to explore the potential for a soft-shell green crab seafood industry in Maine. The idea for this project began with a conversation at a Christmas party last year. A friend of mine, Jonathan […]

NOTE: This post was written by Amalia Harrington, a graduate student in Rick Wahle’s lab at the Darling Marine Center, working on Wahle’s latest Sea Grant research project.  It is no secret that the American lobster supports the most productive fishery in Maine. Many researchers have dedicated their careers to understanding the biology of this important species. […]

This week, Sea Grant-supported researcher Skylar Bayer will be reporting from the International Marine Conservation Congress of the Society for Conservation Biology. Bayer is a guest speaker at the storytelling workshop on the 28th, and then is presenting on her research, “Building a tool kit to assess reproductive performance of commercially exploited broadcast spawners inside and outside […]

Have you heard about Maine Sea Grant’s radio show Coastal Conversations? It airs on the fourth Friday of each month at 10 AM on WERU Community Radio 89.9 FM, which broadcasts from roughly mid-coast to nearly the Canadian border. You can also access past shows online anytime. Since we started the show in January 2015, […]