Research

R-NERR14-1 Coastal Hazards and Northeast Housing Values (Regional Project)

Robert Johnston Clark University Klaus Moeltner and Christine Blinn Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Christine Feurt University of New England This Northeast Regional Sea Grant Consortium project will combine coastal hazards data with novel property value matching models to quantify the economic consequences of the Northeast region’s coastal hazard vulnerability and related adaptation. These […]

R-12-01 Spatial and temporal variation in the growth of the soft-shell clam along the coast of Maine

William G. Ambrose, Jr. Professor of Biology Bates College Lewiston, ME 04240 207.786.6114 wambrose@bates.edu Brian Beal Professor of Marine Ecology University of Maine at Machias Machias, ME 04654 207.255.1314 bbeal@maine.edu Soft-shell clams (Mya arenaria) are one of the most important commercial marine species harvested in Maine. In the last decade, clam landings averaged $14 million […]

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 […]

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-12-02 General circulation and exchange between isolated regions in Casco Bay

Neal Pettigrew School of Marine Sciences University of Maine Orono, ME 04469 207.581.4384 Email Neal Pettigrew Casco Bay is a dynamic coastal region that hosts the greater Portland metropolitan area, Maine’s largest city. Casco Bay is home to both endangered and commercially important marine species, is used for many recreational and tourism activities, and is […]

DV-12-11 Downeast Smelt Fry

Dwayne Shaw Downeast Salmon Federation PO Box 201/187 Main St. Columbia Falls, ME 04623 207.483.4336 info@mainesalmonrivers.org On the third Friday in April, the Downeast Salmon Federation hosts a community smelt fry to celebrate spring and the annual harvest of rainbow smelt, a native sea-run fish. Friends, family, and visitors gather next to DSF’s Wild Salmon […]

DV-13-01 New England Estuarine Research Society Meeting

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 […]

R-10-05 Mapping Maine’s working waters

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 […]

DV-10-22 Jump starting an ecosystem: reintroduction of forage fish to North Haven

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 […]

DV-10-03 Identifying foraging habitat of breeding Atlantic puffins in Maine

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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