Maine Sea Grant

Jay Adams Old Fort Western Fund 16 Cony St. Augusta, ME 04330 oldfort@oldfortwestern.org The second annual Spring Running took place on June 2, 2007. The festival, a celebration of the renewed health of the Kennebec River and the rebounding populations of fish resulting from the removal of the Edwards Dam, provides an opportunity to educate […]

Don Hudson Gulf of Maine Marine Education Association The Gulf of Maine Marine Education Association (GOMMEA) hosted the annual conference of the National Marine Educators Association in Portland, Maine, in July 2007. At the sold-out conference, GOMMEA hosted the first meeting of a new Traditional Ecological Knowledge Committee, bringing native and first nations people together […]

Yong Chen Professor of Fisheries Dynamics School of Marine Sciences University of Maine Orono, ME 04469 ychen@maine.edu Traditional models of fish stock assessments, which are used to regulate commercial fisheries, are often inadequate to evaluate the true status of fish populations because they assume that the spatial distribution of fish in the ocean is not […]

Doug McNaught Assistant Professor of Marine Ecology Science 117 University of Maine at Machias 9 O’Brien Ave. Machias, ME 04654 207.255.1206 dmcnaught@maine.edu After a rapid boom-and-bust in the 1990s, the Maine sea urchin fishery continues to rely on a depleted resource, especially in southern Maine. Without urchins, many areas became colonized with kelp and other […]

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 […]

Charles Tilburg Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Physics University of New England 11 Hills Beach Road Biddeford, ME 04005 207.602.2422 Email Charles Tilburg University of New England researcher Charles Tilburg worked with eighth graders at Biddeford Middle School to map the fate of the freshwater plume out of the Saco River, the fourth largest river […]

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 […]

November 19–22, 2008 Charleston, South Carolina, USA The 11th International Conference on Shellfish Restoration was held in historic Charleston, South Carolina. The meeting provided an opportunity for resource managers, shellfish farmers, community activists, historians, and anthropologists to exchange ideas to inform restoration of molluscan shellfish populations while improving water quality and the environmental health 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 […]

Gayle Zydlewski Lower Penobscot Watershed Coalition www.covebrook.org/lpwc The first Penobscot River Revival, a festival on the Bangor waterfront in July 2008, was imagined as a way to celebrate the restoration of the Penobscot River. The event was modeled after the successful Spring Running event, which Sea Grant has also supported. Total: $2,000 Please visit the […]