Current Projects

DV-17-21 Midcoast Maine Water Quality for Our Communities

Sarah Gladu Damariscotta River Association Damariscotta, ME The Maine Coastal Observing Alliance (MCOA) consists of nine coastal citizen monitoring groups who collect water samples and analyze pH, temperature, dissolved oxygen, nutrients (total nitrogen), salinity, and turbidity in eight coastal estuaries and embayments between Casco Bay and Penobscot Bay. This coastwide survey, initiated in 2013, of […]

DV-18-08 Building a Maine Midden Minders Network for statewide citizen science

Alice Kelley School of Earth and Climate Sciences University of Maine More than 2,000 historic Wabanaki shell middens are located on the coast of Maine. These human-created accumulations of shells, faunal remains, and artifacts were once seen as trash heaps, but are now viewed as archives of over 4,000 years of coastal lifeways and environmental […]

DV-17-22 Bagaduce Watershed Monitoring

Bailey Bowden Town of Penobscot Alewife Committee Penobscot, ME There has been a lot of activity in the Bagaduce River watershed, including participation in the SEANET project and two fish passage restoration projects supported by NOAA’s Habitat Blueprint. New fishways at Pierce’s and Wight’s Ponds in Penobscot are part of a focus on restoring alewives […]

DV-18-10 Investigating Maine’s changing water cycle through a cultural lens

Darren Ranco Coordinator of Native American Research University of Maine Katherine Allen School of Earth and Climate Science University of Maine The flow of water across Maine’s landscape, through its rivers, and into the sea represents a key link in the regional water cycle, impacting both terrestrial and marine environments. River runoff contributes […]

E-17-01 Sustainable post-harvest processing and value-addition of cultured seaweed

Balunkeswar Nayak Assistant Professor of Food Processing School of Food and Agriculture University of Maine John Belding Advanced Manufacturing Center, UMaine Mary Ellen Camire School of Food and Agriculture, UMaine Xuan Chen School of Economics, UMaine Jennifer Perry School of Food and Agriculture, UMaine Denise Skonberg School of Food and Agriculture, UMaine Peter Van Walsum […]

DV-18-11 Selection in response to short-term temperature stress in early larval lobster stages

Carolyn Tepolt Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Genetic adaptation may play an important role in the ability of lobsters to adapt to changing environmental conditions in the Gulf of Maine. Earlier research has suggested that lobsters may have evolved genetic variation related to temperature. However, the potential of rapid genomic adaptation to contribute to lobster […]

E-17-02 Large-scale culture methods for blue mussel seed production in Maine and the Northeast: experimental laboratory & field trials

Brian Beal Downeast Institute for Applied Marine Research Demand for mussels in the Northeast exceeds the current domestic supply. In 2015, nine million pounds of live mussels were imported from farms in Canada, especially Prince Edward Island. This represents about half of the U.S. market, and demand is projected to increase by nearly one-third […]

DV-18-12 Data compilation, analysis and visualization training for citizen scientists

Kathleen Thornton Darling Marine Center University of Maine Citizen groups, aided by new technologies such as autonomous buoys, sondes, and other hand held instrumentation, as well as an expanding network of volunteer monitors, are obtaining a steadily increasing volume of coastal and estuarine water quality data. Even as the amount of data increases, there exist […]

R-18-02 Reconciling multiple stakeholders in rockweed habitats: Science to help achieve the intersecting goals of a fishery and coastal wildlife

Amanda Klemmer Assistant Research Professor of Food Web Ecology University of Maine Brain Olsen University of Maine Jessica Muhlin Maine Maritime Academy Aaron Strong University of Maine Hannah Webber Schoodic Institute Coastal ecoystems support two of Maine’s largest economic activities: fishing and tourism. Sustaining both activities into the future depends […]

DV-18-13 Determining causes of replicate variability in levels of Vibrio parahaemolyticus in Eastern oysters in order to improve the efficacy of a cold water pathogen reduction process

Meredith White Mook Sea Farm Some of the greatest risks facing oyster growers in Maine stem from ecosystem changes including increased temperature and changes to seawater chemistry that affect abundance of Vibrio species, an illness-causing bacteria. Illnesses linked to consumption of shellfish from cooler northeast waters had historically been rare but has increased in […]

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