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
- The future of Maine’s lobster industry may depend on a creature the size of a sesame seed. Researchers at the University of Maine have discovered […]
- News Center Maine, WABI (Channel 5 in Bangor), WGME (Channel 13 in Portland) and the Bangor Daily News reported on the University of Maine Advanced […]
- Wildlife ecology major Jordan Anderson spent the summer tagging Atlantic and shortnose sturgeon in the Penobscot and Kennebec rivers through a Maine Sea Grant internship […]
- Researchers led by the University of Maine are developing artificial intelligence technology that could make electric grids more resilient to cyberattacks, equipment failures and extreme […]
- A steady “snowfall” of tiny particles carries carbon, nutrients and pollution from the ocean’s surface toward the deep sea. Scientists can see those particles sinking, […]
- PBS’s “Modern Pioneering” program featured the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center for a segment on food systems in Maine. The segment highlighted its research […]
- Walter Golet, assistant professor of marine sciences at the University of Maine, was featured by Maine Public discussing recent white shark sightings off southern Maine […]
- News Center Maine, The Defense Post, Mainebiz and Penobscot Bay Pilot featured a new educational partnership agreement between the University of Maine and Portsmouth Naval […]
