James Sulikowski Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences University of New England 207.602.2730 Email James Sulikowski Shallow coastal waters provide nursery habitat for larval and juvenile stages of fish and invertebrates. These early life stages are the most vulnerable, and environmental conditions must be just right for the young animals to survive. Less is known about […]
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Jonathan Grabowski Gulf of Maine Research Institute Portland, ME 04112 207.563.3146 ext. 318 jgrabow@maine.edu Erika Clesceri University of Maine Darling Marine Center 193 Clarks Cove Road Walpole, ME 04573 207.563.3146 ext. 318 clesceri@email.unc.edu Several thousand tons of herring bait are used in the nearshore waters of Maine’s coast to support the lobster fishery. In the […]
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Shey Veditz Island Institute 386 Main Street PO Box 648 Rockland , ME 04841 207.694.9209 Working access to the Gulf of Maine is threatened by real estate development and other changing land uses. In order for fishermen, water-dependent businesses, land trusts, economic development groups, municipalities, and the public to succeed in preserving Maine’s working waterfronts, […]
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Gary Edwards Down East Resource Conservation & Development Council 87 Milbridge Road PO Box 210 Cherryfield, ME 04622 207.546.2368 gary.edwards@me.usda.gov The extensive mudflats and coves along the eastern Maine coast provide habitat for clams, scallops, mussels, and oysters, which in turn sustain the economies of coastal communities. However, recent habitat loss and harvest decline has […]
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David Townsend School of Marine Sciences Aubert Hall 355 University of Maine Orono, ME 04469 207.581.4367 davidt@maine.edu Lewis Incze Bioscience Research Institute University of Southern Maine 96 Falmouth St. Portland, ME 04106 207.228.8070 lincze@usm.maine.edu Daniel Schick Bureau of Resource Management Department of Marine Resources West Boothbay Harbor, ME 04575 207.633.9528 dan.schick@maine.gov The northern shrimp, Pandalus […]
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Stephen Miller Islesboro Islands Trust P.O. Box 182 Islesboro, ME 04848 Phone: 734-6907 iitsmill@midcoast.com The Town of Searsport is currently updating its comprehensive plan and writing new land use ordinances. This project will provide the town with a rigorous comparative cost-benefit analysis of three development scenarios for Sears Island : marine ecology, marine history, and recreational. […]
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Jonathan Grabowski Gulf of Maine Research Institute PO Box 7459 Portland, ME 04112 207.563.3146 jgrabow@maine.edu W. Lindsay Whitlow Department of Biology and Environmental Studies Bowdoin College 6500 College Station Brunswick, ME 04011 207.725.3213 lwhitlow@bowdoin.edu Each year, 20 million tons of crude oil are transported into Casco Bay, representing a real possibility of an oil spill. […]
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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 […]
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Carol Janzen School of Marine Sciences University of Maine Orono, ME 04469 207.581.4344 cjanzen@umeoce.maine.edu Neal Pettigrew School of Marine Sciences University of Maine Orono, ME 04469 207.581.4384 nealp@maine.edu Casco Bay imports more oil than any other Northeastern port, except New York, handling over 20-million tons of crude oil and oil products annually. It is also […]
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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 […]
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