Damon Gannon Bowdoin College 6500 College Station Brunswick, ME 04011 207.798.4267 dgannon@bowdoin.edu Coastal and marine policy in the United States is a patchwork of laws under the jurisdiction of many different agencies within local, state, and federal levels of government. As ocean policy reform continues to chug along in Washington, ecosystem-based management is being touted […]
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Stephen Coghlan 5755 Nutting Hall, Room 240 University of Maine Orono, ME 04469 207.581.2880 Stephen.Coghlan@umit.maine.edu http://umaine.edu/wle/faculty-staff-directory/stephen-m-coghlan-jr-2/ Kevin Simon School of Biology & Ecology, University of Maine Joseph Zydlewski USGS Cooperative Research Unit Maine’s rivers were once linked to the ocean by spawning migrations of diadromous fishes. These fish brought nutrients and energy from the marine […]
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Charles Curtin Antioch University PO Box 418 North Haven, ME 04853 ccurtin@earthlink.net In many coastal communities, local populations of sea-run alewives have gone extinct because they cannot access their spawning habitat due to dams, fishing pressure, pollution, and land use change. Curtin is working with local fishermen and other community members to restore alewives to Fresh […]
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Teresa Johnson School of Marine Sciences 5706 Aubert Hall Orono, ME 04469 207.581.4362 Email Teresa Johnson Johnson Lab Once upon a time, Maine fishermen and women harvested a diversity of species, from groundfish and herring to lobsters, clams, shrimp, and scallops, depending on market conditions and resource abundance. Today, Maine’s fishing culture is concentrated in […]
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Robert Rocha Conference Chair New Bedford Whaling Museum 18 Johnny Cake Hill New Bedford, MA 02740 508.997.0046 x149 Email Robert Rocha The National Marine Educators Association Conference is the biggest yearly event in North America dedicated to the teaching and discovery of oceans, marine life, estuaries and coasts. More than 400 educators, researchers, advocates and […]
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Rob Snyder Island Institute P.O. Box 648 386 Main Street Rockland, Maine 04841 207.594.9209 Coastal and marine planning initiative require spatial data, such as information about oceanography, habitat, and other biophysical characteristics across large areas of the ocean. Yet human uses of the ocean, especially those at local and regional scales, are not as readily […]
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Christopher Rigaud Darline Marine Center 193 Clark’s Cove Road Walpole, ME 207.563.3146 x232 Email Christopher Rigaud The University of Maine has been a member of the American Academy for Underwater Sciences (AAUS) since 1996, one of over 120 member organizations who are engaged in underwater research and education. Each year, AAUS hosts a symposium where […]
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National Audubon Society www.projectpuffin.org Most information about Atlantic puffins comes from studies of individual colonies. Puffins leave their nesting areas to find food, and little was known about where they travel or where foraging and wintering areas are located; some studies suggested they usually stay within seven kilometers of their colony, but when food is […]
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Gillian Garratt-Reed Island Institute 386 Main Street Rockland, ME 207.594.9209 ggarratt-reed@islandinstitute.org Community engagement in discussions related to the marine environment are often hampered because Maine’s coastal residents do not have access to clear, accurate translations of the complex scientific and technical factors needed to make informed decisions. To fill this gap, in 2010 The Working […]
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Steve Coghlan 5755 Nutting Hall, Room 240 University of Maine Orono, ME 04469 207.581.2880 Many streams in Maine’s coastal watersheds once provided habitat for sea-run (or anadromous) fishes like Atlantic salmon and alewives, but populations of these fish have declined or disappeared as a result of centuries of dam construction and pollution. A growing number […]
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