Barry Costa-Pierce Rhode Island Sea Grant South Ferry Road Narragansett, RI 02882 401.874.6800 bcp@gso.uri.edu The development of offshore renewable energy systems is an international priority driven by the need to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and decrease human impacts on global climate. This symposium was an opportunity to document progress toward a new vision […]
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Patrice McCarron Maine Lobstermen’s Association 21 Western Ave. #1 Kennebunk, ME 04043 207.967.4555 patrice@mainelobstermen.org The Maine lobster fishery is experiencing serious economic challenges due to a combination of poor lobster prices and escalating operating expenses. The Maine lobster fishery is comprised of 5,500 commercial license holders with landings valued at more than $244 million in […]
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Christie Mahaffey 5711 Boardman Hall University of Maine Orono, ME 04469 207.433.0200 christie.mahaffey[at]umit.maine.edu With so many diverse uses and activities in the waters of the Gulf of Maine, avoiding conflict or reducing impacts on rare native species like whales is a priority. This project aimed to study the physiological contraints in deep-diving cetaceans in the […]
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Hauke Kite-Powell Marine Policy Center Crowell 204 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Woods Hole, MA 02543 508.289.2938 Entanglement in fishing gear is, along with ship strikes, the dominant source of human-caused injury and mortality for the endangered North Atlantic right whale. Lobster gear has been implicated in a number of entanglement cases, and recent management decisions […]
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Daniel Belknap Department of Earth Sciences University of Maine Orono, ME 04469 207.581.2159 belknap@maine.edu http://climatechange.umaine.edu/Directory/people/belknap.html Joseph Kelley Department of Earth Sciences University of Maine Cynthia Loftin USGS Cooperative Research Unit Salt marshes protect coastal lands from flooding and erosion, absorbing the impacts of storms and high tides while maintaining water quality and providing habitat for […]
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Franz Hover Room 5-207 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge MA 02139 617.253.6762 Email Franz Hover Using Technology to Assess the Impacts of the Invasive Sea Squirt Didemnum Vexillum, on Fisheries and Ecosystems – University of Maine In-situ Sound & Color Lab One of the most dominant and aggressive non-native species in the Gulf […]
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Yong Chen 218 Libby Hall School of Marine Sciences University of Maine Orono, ME 04469 207.581.4303 Email Yong Chen Carl Wilson Maine Department of Marine Resources The American lobster supports the most valuable commercial fishery in the northeastern U.S., and the fishery is critical to the Maine economy. Landings have increased steadily since the early […]
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Sean Todd Allied Whale College of the Atlantic 105 Eden St. Bar Harbor, ME 04609 In the United States, marine mammals and sea turtles are federally protected by a number of laws, including the Marine Mammal Protection Act (1972), and the Endangered Species Act (1973). Federal law mandates response to marine mammals and sea turtles […]
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Stephen Coghlan 5755 Nutting Hall, Room 240 University of Maine Orono, ME 04469 207.581.2880 Stephen.Coghlan@umit.maine.edu http://umaine.edu/wle/faculty-staff-directory/stephen-m-coghlan-jr-2/ Kevin Simon School of Biology & Ecology, University of Maine Joseph Zydlewski USGS Cooperative Research Unit Maine’s rivers were once linked to the ocean by spawning migrations of diadromous fishes. These fish brought nutrients and energy from the marine […]
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Hannah Webber Fields Pond Audubon Center Holden, ME 207.989.2591 hwebber@maineaudubon.org The collaborative, community-based restoration of Sedgeunkedunk Stream, including removal of two dams, is serving as a model for other barrier removal efforts throughout Maine. The project and its follow-up monitoring should be of great interest to municipal personnel and planners; representatives from land trusts, lake […]
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