Marine Sciences
Marine Sciences, including a multidisciplinary Marine Research Solutions initiative to improve understanding of the physical, biological and socioeconomic processes that shape the ocean. Goals include being a reliable, deeply engaged partner with policy makers, fisheries stakeholders, marine industries and coastal communities, helping to develop solutions for the broad array of issues associated with Maine’s marine resources; and to provide high-quality, interdisciplinary undergraduate and graduate education, outreach and research for the Gulf of Maine.
Recent News
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Maine-eDNA an opportunity for DMC, Bigelow to collaborate, find solutions
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Maine Public interviews Wahle about new lobster studies
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Study finds conservation enables Caribbean reef to recover, Penobscot Bay Pilot reports
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New studies attribute warming waters, local differences in oceanography to rise and fall of American lobster populations in the Gulf of Maine
UMaine Today
Watching for eyes
Reproduction endocrinology research could improve survival rates of Atlantic salmon embryos
Farming the sea
Maine’s aquaculture industry grows through research, innovation and collaboration
Stellar in STEM
UMaine boasts five NSF Graduate Research Fellows