Current Projects

R-NERR14-2 A Comparative Assessment of Approaches to Employing Public Funding to Vulnerable Coastal Properties (Regional Project)

Porter Hoagland, Di Jin, and Hauke Kite-Powell Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution John Duff University of Massachusetts-Boston Investigators will examine various legal and fiscal/economic mechanisms employed by coastal communities in the Northeast to formulate and carry out disaster response and mitigation programs. Local responses to flooding and erosion, such as beach nourishment and armoring, will be […]

R-12-11 Climate change adaptation and ecosystem service resilience in Northeast coastal communities

Robert J. Johnston George Perkins Marsh Institute Clark University Worcester, MA 01610 508.751.4619 rjohnston@clarku.edu Northeast coastal communities are increasingly vulnerable to hazards from a variable and changing climate, including sea-level rise and increasing frequency and magnitude of storm-related floods. Those affected seek economic information to help communities adapt to coastal hazards. Johnston will adapt established […]

DV-13-08 Developing statewide research priorities on ocean acidification

Suzanne Arnold Island Institute 207.594.9209 As carbon dioxide increases in the atmosphere, it also increases in the ocean. Once in the ocean, carbon dioxide goes through chemical reactions that make seawater more acidic. The Gulf of Maine may be uniquely susceptible to ocean acidification because cold water tends to be more acidic since it holds […]

A-12-04 The American Lobster in a Changing Ecosystem: A US-Canada Science Symposium

27-30 November 2012 | Portland, Maine The conference steering committee would like to thank the 130+ people who attended the symposium, all the presenters, and sponsors. Final Conference Program (PDF, 3.2 MB) November 2013 Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences Special Issue The symposium grew out of a consensus among the scientific community […]

R-12-10 The governance role of local authorities in marine spatial planning: a legal assessment of prospects and problems

John Duff Environmental Earth and Ocean Sciences University of Massachusetts 100 Morrissey Blvd. Boston, MA 02125 john.duff@umb.edu 617.287.7445 Efforts to employ marine spatial planning to improve coastal and ocean resource stewardship are underway, but the challenges faced by local governments are not well understood. Duff will examine how federal, state, and local authorities are working […]

R-12-09 Social and economic impact assessment of catch share management in the Northeast multispecies fishery

Christopher Glass Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space University of New Hampshire 8 College Road Durham, NH 03824-3525 603.862.0322 chris.glass@unh.edu The project aims to assess the social and economic impacts of New Hampshire’s multispecies fishery catch share program. The resulting insights will help determine whether the catch share fishery program, now […]

DV-12-17 Microplastics pollution monitoring project

Susan Shaw Marine Environmental Research Institute 55 Main Street Blue Hill, ME 04614 207.374.2135 sshaw@meriresearch.org The world’s oceans are littered with plastic debris. With the 1997 discovery of staggering amounts of plastic collecting in the Pacific Ocean and North Atlantic gyres emerged the question of what happens to these plastics as they break down, since plastic particles […]

DV-12-16 Sea gulls as potential bioindicators of ecosystem health in the Gulf of Maine

John Anderson College of the Atlantic 105 Eden Street Bar Harbor, ME 04609 207.801.5717 Email John Anderson Recent declines in sea gull populations in the Gulf of Maine suggest significant changes in the ecosystem. Gulls nesting on the Maine coast travel long distances across the United States and Canada, and there is no coordinated effort […]

DV-12-13 Feasibility of genetic fingerprinting to determine scallop lineage

Erin Owen Husson University 1 College Circle Bangor, ME 04401 207.941.7744 Email Erin Owen Maine’s small but unique coastal scallop fishery has been a lucrative source of income for fishing communities, only second in value to the state’s lobster fishery. In response to a steady decline in landings, the Maine Department of Marine Resources initiated […]

DV-12-08 Preliminary sampling of sea lice on wild fish from Cobscook Bay

Ian Bricknell Aquaculture Research Institute Hitchner Hall University of Maine Orono, ME 04469 207.581.4380 ian.bricknell@umit.maine.edu In an effort to reduce the threat of infection by parasitic sea lice, Maine’s salmon farming industry has adopted a three-year production cycle that rotates production sites. If wild fish are carrying sea lice, they can make this strategy […]

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