UMaine Researchers Present at Climate Change Conference, Media Report

Robert Steneck, professor in the School of Marine Sciences at the University of Maine’s Darling Center, and Andrew Pershing, professor in the Gulf of Maine Research Institute at UMaine, were among about 100 scientists, fisheries managers and commercial fishermen to attend an Island Institute-hosted symposium in Portland on climate change and fisheries.

Steneck and Pershing spoke about the warming temperatures in the Gulf of Maine and what that means for lobsters and other species. The Bangor Daily News and Portland Press Herald reported on the conference.