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
- FOX News interviewed Dorothy J. Klimis-Zacas, a professor of clinical nutrition at the University of Maine, on new research which found wild blueberries have cardiometabolic, […]
- WMTW (ABC 8 in Portland) published an article exploring the logistics of snowmobiling in Maine and how to prepare for it. They referenced research from […]
- Technological advances over the past four decades have turned mobile devices and computers into the world’s largest library, where information is just a tap away. […]
- More than 70% of Maine’s fishing value comes from American lobster. The fishery has delivered prosperity for decades, but it also leaves coastal communities exposed […]
- Editor’s note: This story was updated on Jan. 30. In Maine’s warmer waters, oysters grow briny and firm, feeding on algae and plankton. Their cycle […]
- For more than a decade, Maine-based nonprofit Rural Aspirations Project has worked with schools across the state with a simple goal in mind: To expand […]
- University of Maine Honors College senior Eddie Nachamie has been featured in Spectrum News Maine, Seacoast Online, FOX Bangor and The Eagle-Tribune for his research […]
- The University of Maine Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions was featured in the Portland Press Herald for its role in helping Maine […]
