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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Will Hopkins Cobscook Bay Resource Center Eastport, ME 04631 207.853.4560 wilhopkins@nemaine.com Heidi Leighton Cobscook Bay Resource Center Eastport, ME 04631 207.726.5543 cobscook@prexar.com Cobscook Bay in Maine supports a significant wild capture fishery, as well as the salmon aquaculture industry, both of which are commercially important to local communities and the state. In order to better […]
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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 […]
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Sandra Shumway Department of Marine Sciences University of Connecticut 1080 Shennecossett Road Groton, CT 06340 P. 860.405.9282 sandra.shumway@uconn.edu The 100th annual meeting of the National Shellfisheries Association took place April 6-10, 2008, in Providence, Rhode Island. The meeting overlapped with the 37th annual Benthic Ecology Meeting. Sessions at the conference featured topics such as horseshoe […]
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Rich MacDonald Gulf of Maine Expedition Institute 285 Knox Road Bar Harbor, ME 04609 207-288-4205 rich@gomexpedition.org The Gulf of Maine Expedition was a sea kayaking journey organized to raise awareness and caring about the ecology and cultural legacy of this international watershed and to promote low-impact coastal recreational practices, safety, and stewardship principles. The successful […]
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Yong Chen 218 Libby Hall School of Marine Sciences University of Maine Orono , ME 04469 207.581.4303 ychen@maine.edu 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 1970s and fishing effort is intense and increasing […]
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Ken La Valley New Hampshire Sea Grant 219 Nesmith Hall 131 Main Street Durham, NH 03824 603.862.4343 Email Ken LaValley Northern shrimp stocks are healthy, but due to historic declines and market volatility, regional shore-side infrastructure (i.e., processing facilities) is reduced. To compete in this market, fishermen have tried to improve quality and consistency to […]
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Susan Brawley School of Marine Sciences University of Maine Orono , ME 04469 207.581.2973 brawley@maine.edu Growing sea vegetables (marine macroalgae, seaweed) in concert with finfish aquaculture can mitigate nutrient overenrichment that can occur near fish farms. Sea vegetables benefit from polyculture with finfish because they need the nutrients released by farms in the form of […]
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