Vision
Make Maine a national leader in transformative environmental genetic research, innovation, outreach, and training for the sustainability and wellbeing of natural and human ecosystems and the people that depend on them.
Mission
Foster broad-based environmental genetics collaborations, partnerships, and infrastructure that contribute to the sustainability of current and future natural resource industries and agriculture, improve human health and wellbeing, and prepare a technologically skilled workforce.
Message from the Director
Welcome to the website of the Maine Center for Genetics and the Environment, or MCGE as we often call it. The Maine Center for Genetics in the Environment (MCGE) was formed in 2019 as a sustainability element of the NSF EPSCoR RII Track-1 Maine-eDNA Program (NSF #OIA-1849227). The center was founded around a vision to make Maine a national leader in transformative environmental genetic research, innovation, outreach, and training for the sustainability and wellbeing of natural and human ecosystems and the people that depend on them. I like to say that environmental genetics is a scientific bridge…
Maine Research News
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Pest predictor identifies ingredients for ecological recipe for destruction
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Maine’s first research satellite enters orbit
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Forest-based economy, jobs focus of new university-nonprofit partnership
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Graduate student documents Chilean research voyage with photography
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Math teachers enhance instruction with support from UMaine’s RiSE Center
Maine-eDNA News
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Understanding invasive species’ incursions into the Gulf of Maine
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From forests to fields: the transition from kelp to turf amidst climate change in the Gulf of Maine
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Investigating marine biology and developing as a researcher through environmental DNA
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Maine’s kelp forests and the impact of environmental change
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White Shark Migration and Taking Part in the Research Process with Patrick Tardie