School of Marine Sciences

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 […]

Recent UMaine graduate Chase Brunton has been selected as the recipient of the Dr. Arthur J. Bachrach Bonnier Dive Group publishing internship, sponsored by the Our World Underwater Scholarship Society (OWUSS).  Chase will help produce content and participate in the publishing cycle of Sport Diver and Scuba Diving magazines and their respective web sites, SportDiver.com […]

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Dr. Walt Golet Summer 2017 Despite a spring which brought with it mostly wet and cooler than average temperatures, the Gulf of Maine has already begun its transition to summer.  The spring phytoplankton bloom, stratification of the surface layer, and the arrival of several different migratory species of pelagic fish has begun.  These migratory fish […]

This month’s traveler is Emily Nocito, who was recently in New York City where she, her advisor, and two lab-mates attended The Ocean Conference at the United Nations. On June 5th, the first ever United Nations conference solely dedicated to the realm of oceans was held at the United Nations Headquarters in NYC. While our environment, […]

In a two-part series, we welcome four new faculty members to the School of Marine Sciences.  This month, we profile Professors Kristina Cammen and Josh Stoll.  In the next issue, we will profile Professors Aaron Strong and Nishad Jayasundara. Assistant Professor Kristina Cammen was born in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, and moved with her family to Maryland […]