Sean Todd Director, Allied Whale and Steven K. Katona Chair in Marine Sciences College of the Atlantic 105 Eden Street Bar Harbor, ME 04609 207.801.5725 stodd@coa.edu Allied Whale has been studying endangered humpback, fin, and right whales from Mount Desert Rock’s marine field station for nearly 40 years. Visual observations from small vessels and from […]
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Jessica F. Muhlin Assistant Professor of Marine Biology Corning School of Ocean Studies Maine Maritime Academy Castine, ME, 04420 207.326.2403 jessica.muhlin@mma.edu The 51st Annual Northeast Algal Symposium convened April 20-22, 2012 at the Schoodic Education and Research Center at Schoodic Point, Maine, part of Acadia National Park. The symposium included a wide range of oral […]
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Jake Ward Department of Industrial Cooperation University of Maine Windstorm Challenge is an ocean energy design competition for middle and high school students hosted by the DeepCwind Consortium and the University of Maine. Teams work independently throughout the spring to design and build a scale-model floating wind turbine, and then come to the University of […]
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William Ambrose Bates College wambrose@bates.edu Bates College hosted the 2013 meeting of the New England Estuarine Research Society in Portland, Maine. Several scientists and students presented results of Sea Grant-funded research, and Maine Sea Grant distributed publications from our display in the sponsor exhibit area. NEERS is a nonprofit organization with a wide-ranging membership from […]
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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 […]
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William Ellis University of Maine School of Marine Sciences The Nor'easter Ocean Sciences Bowl is an annual regional competition for high school students focused on topics related to the oceans. In this one-day academic tournament, teams of high school students compete against other teams from northern New England to answer questions about the physics, chemistry, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Erik Chapman New Hampshire Sea Grant 131 Main Street Durham, NH 03833 603.862.1935 Community Supported Fisheries (CSFs), inspired by the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) model in which consumers pre-pay for a share of fresh local produce from local farmers, have been one approach that fishermen and fishing communities have explored to direct more money to […]
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Gillian Garratt-Reed Island Institute 386 Main Street Rockland, ME 207.594.9209 ggarratt-reed@islandinstitute.org Community engagement in discussion and decisions related to the marine environment are often hampred 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 […]
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