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
- New Hampshire Public Radio (NHPR) interviewed Kylie Brunette, University of Maine Ph.D. student in wildlife ecology, on revealing the first known evidence of American woodcock […]
- Mainebiz and Fox22 Bangor highlighted the University of Maine’s role in the newly launched NSF Seafood Engine, a $15 million National Science Foundation initiative designed […]
- Engineers are exploring ways to harness nuclear fusion, as it has the potential to generate four times as much energy as existing nuclear fission reactors […]
- WABI (Channel 5 in Bangor) and News Center Maine covered the University of Maine’s annual Downeast Wild Blueberry Field Day, where growers, researchers and industry […]
- American woodcock, short, plump shorebirds with long, thin beaks, are widely known for their bobbing stride and nasally “peent” calls, but not for being aggressive. […]
- The Cool Down, National Fisherman, News Center Maine, Maine Public, CBC’s “Island Morning” radio show and WMTW (Channel 8 in Portland) featured University of Maine […]
- National Parks Traveler and The Ellsworth American featured University of Maine doctoral student Deirdre McGrath for receiving an Acadia Science Fellowship to study erosion affecting […]
- The University of Maine Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR) has announced the 2026 recipients of the CUGR and Maine Space Grant Consortium (MSGC) Summer Research […]
