Maine Sea Grant

Gayle Zydlewski Lower Penobscot Watershed Coalition www.covebrook.org/lpwc The Lower Penobscot Watershed Coalition and partners welcomed over 500 guests to the Bangor Waterfront to celebrate the return to a healthy river. Live music by Stiff Whisker and the Driftwood Kids, the Eric Green Band, and the Burnurwurbskek singers from the Penobscot Indian Nation, kept people entertained, […]

Nishanta Rajakaruna College of the Atlantic 105 Eden Street Bar Harbor, ME 04609 207.288.5015 ext. 261 nrajakaruna@coa.edu Plants that grow in metal-rich soils are often physiologically and taxonomically distinct populations, providing model systems to examine the process of plant evolution. Current understanding of how new plant species arise has benefited from research conducted on metal-tolerant […]

Habib Dagher 5793 AEWC Bldg, Room 142 University of Maine Orono, ME 04469 207.581.2138 In March, Sea Grant provided travel support for Danish environmental educator Søren Hermansen, who came to the University of Maine to speak about how his island of Samso, Denmark, became energy independent. Hermansen was named one of Time’s 2008 Heroes of […]

Ruth H. Carmichael University of Maine at Machias 9 O’Brien Ave. Machias, ME 04655 207.255.1206 Email Ruth Carmichael Maine is home to the northernmost population of the Atlantic horseshoe crab. Species at the edge of their range are often considered unique and potentially fragile. If Maine’s horseshoe crabs are at the fringe of their viable […]

Laura Taylor Singer Gulf of Maine Research Institute 350 Commercial Street Portland, ME 04101 207.772.2321 Gulf of Maine Research Institute The Gulf of Maine ecosystem is among the most complex and well-studied bioregions in the world. However, the groundfish fishery that was once the mainstay of many coastal communities remains vastly diminished. In response, some […]

Sandra Shumway Department of Marine Sciences University of Connecticut 1080 Shennecossett Road Groton, CT 06340 P. 860.405.9282 sandra.shumway@uconn.edu The 100th annual meeting of the National Shellfisheries Association took place April 6-10, 2008, in Providence, Rhode Island. The meeting overlapped with the 37th annual Benthic Ecology Meeting. Sessions at the conference featured topics such as horseshoe […]

Rich MacDonald Gulf of Maine Expedition Institute 285 Knox Road Bar Harbor, ME 04609 207-288-4205 rich@gomexpedition.org The Gulf of Maine Expedition was a sea kayaking journey organized to raise awareness and caring about the ecology and cultural legacy of this international watershed and to promote low-impact coastal recreational practices, safety, and stewardship principles. The successful […]

Mary E. Rumpho-Kennedy Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology 5735 Hitchner Hall University of Maine Orono, ME 04469 P. 207.581.2806 Like many vast and diverse ecosystems on Earth, the sea represents an oasis of potential medicines and healing substances, including anticancer compounds. For example, the toxic chemicals generated by some organisms as protection against […]

Ben Letcher Silvio O. Conte Anadromous Fish Research Center Very little is known about the life history of sea-run brook trout in Maine. Yet knowing how brook trout utilize marine habitat is important information for fisheries managers who are charged with maintaining and protection brook trout populations. This project will attempt to identify the range […]

Robert Snyder Island Institute P.O. Box 648 386 Main Street Rockland, ME 04841 P. 207.594.9209 The Island Institute in Rockland, Maine, coordinated an assessment of climate change impacts on the Maine lobster fishery. They completed several months of research on fishermen’s observations regarding trends in weather, climate, water temperature, runoff, and salinity in relation to […]