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
- Ben Herzog, who manages the wood-composites lab at the University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center, was recently featured in Down East on the mass-timber construction […]
- Twelve undergraduates have been named 2026 Outstanding Graduating Students at the University of Maine. Hamidah Aldarwish College of Education and Human Development Bachelor of Science […]
- Zoe Furber of Vancouver, British Columbia is the Outstanding Graduating International Student in the College of Earth, Life, and Health Sciences. A double major in […]
- Michelle Staudinger, associate professor of fisheries science, is leading a new study at the University of Maine to find out whether lobsters are being consumed […]
- In a short 30-minute hike up several hundred feet, Abigail Hall of Olympia, Washington, was standing atop a volcano surrounded by a rocky expanse of […]
- Griffin Dill, the manager of University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s Tick Lab within the Diagnostic and Research Laboratory, was recently featured in a News Center […]
- Harbor seals in the Gulf of Maine have experienced several mass die-offs from viral outbreaks, while other seal species appear largely unaffected. A University of […]
- Ruth Griffith of Parkman, Maine, who is majoring in economics with minors in mathematics and international affairs, is the 2026 University of Maine valedictorian. Biomedical […]
