Maine Sea Grant

Stephen Miller Islesboro Islands Trust P.O. Box 182 Islesboro, ME 04848 Phone: 734-6907 iitsmill@midcoast.com The Town of Searsport is currently updating its comprehensive plan and writing new land use ordinances. This project will provide the town with a rigorous comparative cost-benefit analysis of three development scenarios for Sears Island : marine ecology, marine history, and recreational. […]

Jon Kachmar Maine State Planning Office 38 State House Station Augusta , ME 04333 207-287-1913 Jon.kachmar@maine.gov The Habitat Restoration Subcommittee of the Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment identified the need to produce and distribute science-based information about 1) salt marsh ecology, human impacts, monitoring, and habitat restoration and 2) American eel natural […]

Aram Calhoun Department of Plant, Soil, and Environmental Sciences University of Maine Orono, ME 04469 207-581-3010 Calhoun@maine.edu The Penobscot River Restoration Project plans to remove two dams on the lower Penobscot River. To date, there are no published studies of wetlands in the lower river or estuary. Researchers will identify, map, and survey vegetation of […]

Jane Disney MDI Water Quality Coalition P.O. Box 911 Mount Desert, ME 207-288-2598 Email Jane Disney There are many diverse users of Frenchman Bay in downeast Maine, and just as many visions for the future of the bay. Ambassadors of the Bay was a five-day sea kayak journey that high school students and community members […]

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 […]