Esperanza Stancioff, Extension professor and climate change lead for UMaine Cooperative Extension and Maine Sea Grant, has received a 2020 Mitchell Center Sustainability Award. She is recognized for her outstanding contributions toward the development of a solution by a researcher or research team through her work on the Collaborating Toward Climate Solutions project. Read the […]

A team of researchers, aquaculture production specialists and educators in Maine, Rhode Island and New Hampshire will be working to help transform a the sea urchin fishery by supporting green sea urchin aquaculture efforts in New England. The team — which includes Steve Eddy and Luz Kogson at the University of Maine, Dana Morse with […]

Maine Sea Grant and the Lobster Institute are pleased to announce that University of Maine PhD student Nathan Willse  has received a Maine Sea Grant Scholar award, which provides a one-year research assistantship to support his graduate work. Willse is a researcher in the Chen lab, studying lobster gear and the risk it may pose […]

Maine Sea Grant is pleased to announce that Buoy Maine, a pitch competition designed to foster innovation and entrepreneurship that supports Maine’s working waterfront and coastal communities, will fund ten innovative projects and ideas that help better address the challenges of operating a business during the COVID-19 pandemic. Funding for the awards comes from the […]

Maine Sea Grant in partnership with UMaine Cooperative Extension and New Hampshire Extension is offering another two-part training focusing on The Art and Science of Virtual Facilitation. During the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual meetings have become a mainstay for successful communication and collaboration in organizations and communities. Virtual formats bring their own challenges and opportunities, and […]

Aquaculture in Shared Waters, a program that prepares fishermen and others to start aquaculture ventures in Maine, received a Sea Grant 2020 Superior Outreach Programming Award from the Sea Grant Extension Assembly. Superior Outreach Program Awards recognize projects and programs that can serve as an example across the entire National Sea Grant network.  “We’ve worked […]

Maine Sea Grant is pleased to announce the 2020 awardees of the Undergraduate Scholarship in Marine Sciences. This year’s recipients are from the University of New England (UNE), College of the Atlantic (COA), the Maine Maritime Academy (MMA), and Saint Joseph’s College of Maine. Scholarship recipients will join a statewide network of undergraduate scholars doing […]

September 3, 2020 – The Maine Sea Grant College Program staff and University of Maine scientists will advance a multi-million dollar NOAA Sea Grant American Lobster Initiative, which announced a second round of research funding today. The newly funded research will continue to address critical gaps in knowledge about how American lobster (Homarus americanus) is […]