School of Marine Sciences

The U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) recently announced a $1.5 million award to the University of Maine to support a major waterfront infrastructure investment at the Darling Marine Center (DMC), UMaine’s marine laboratory in Walpole, that will benefit marine industries statewide. Together with matching funds from UMaine and state marine bond funds, the EDA award […]

Emily Nocito, a graduate student in Marine Policy in the School of Marine Sciences, recently presented her research at the 4th International Marine Protected Areas Congress in La Serena, Chile.  The meeting, which takes place every four years, brings together world leaders to discuss policies for marine protected areas and addressing climate change impacts on […]

Summer is coming to the Gulf of Maine, longer and warmer than ever — as much as two months longer. That’s the message of a new research article by a team of scientists led by Andrew Thomas of the University of Maine School of Marine Sciences. The study, published in the journal Elementa, examined the […]

The NASA Earth Observatory featured an image produced by UMaine researcher as its image of the day: “Oyster Prospecting With Landsat 8.” The research, led by Jordan Snyder, a graduate research assistant in marine sciences, and Emmanuel Boss, professor of marine sciences, uses satellite data to identify areas along the Maine coast ideal for oyster […]

  From the top of a lighthouse or the stern of a boat, stretches of big, blue ocean may all look quite similar. A closer look, however, reveals that marine ecosystems and people’s connections to them are quite varied. People on the Maine coast know this from their experiences; recreational clamming and beach access opportunities […]

​​ By Sarah M. Reiter, Adjunct Faculty, Vermont Law School; Aaron Strong, Assistant Professor of Marine Policy, School of Marine Sciences, University of Maine, Orono  Along the rocky shores of Maine, in that dynamic place where land meets sea and the tides ebb and flow, no one knows who owns the seaweed. The legal status […]

University of Maine undergraduate Alyson East measures plant diversity and cover near the Schoodic Woods Campground. Opened in late 2015, the Schoodic Woods Campground provides greater visitor access to Schoodic Peninsula, increasing the value of ecosystem services (economic benefits to humans provided by ecosystems) in terms of recreational experiences. However, effects to other ecosystem services, such […]

August 8, 2017 Robert Steneck, a professor of marine sciences at the University of Maine, was quoted in a CBC News report about the viability of sea urchin aquaculture. Sea urchin aquaculture research is underway in several countries, including the U.S. and Canada, and a new land-based sea urchin aquaculture operation by Quoddy Savour Seafood […]

August 8, 2017 Les Watling, School of Marine Sciences professor emeritus, was quoted in a Live Science article concerning the rare attack on an Australian teenager by tiny, shrimp-like crustaceans known as sea fleas, or lysianssid amphipods. The teen sustained hundreds of tiny needle-like wounds which bled profusely. The article states that anticoagulants produced by […]

August 8, 2017 From the top of a lighthouse or the stern of a boat, stretches of big, blue ocean may all look quite similar. A closer look, however, reveals that marine ecosystems and people’s connections to them are quite varied. People on the Maine coast know this from their experiences; recreational clamming and beach […]