Maine Sea Grant

You don’t have to travel far in Maine before running into former Knauss Marine Policy Fellows working at all levels of state government, in nonprofit organizations, industry associations, and other organizations serving Maine’s coastal ecosystems and communities. Since 1979, more than 1,000 young professionals have spent a year immersed in marine policy as Dean John […]

by Chase Brunton The Marine Sciences Club at the University of Maine in Orono has designated this week (April 18-22) “Ocean Conservation Week.” The event is an effort to spread awareness of marine issues and show how people can act in support of the world’s oceans. The club will be present at a table in the Memorial […]

The fourth class of the Aquaculture in Shared Waters program is underway in Thomaston, Maine. The class of 30 students, including a number of commercial fishermen, meets weekly to learn about the business of aquaculture. The project, which has held classes in 2013 and 2015 in the towns of Harpswell and Corea, is a collaborative effort […]

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 […]