Corals, Revealed

UMaine Alert

Posted: April 19, 2024 - 1:32 PM

At approximately 9:24 a.m. on Friday, April 19, a student was struck by a university vehicle on Long Road at the University of Maine campus in Orono.

Emergency services responded promptly to the scene and the student has been transported to a local hospital. The student’s family has been informed.

Counseling services and support are available for students, faculty or staff who may have been affected. The Counseling Center can be reached at 207-581-1392 or you may call the Dean of Students Office at 207-581-1406.

An investigation is underway and more details will be released when they become available. Our thoughts are with the student and their family.

Long Road has been cleared and is now accessible. Any witnesses to the incident are encouraged to contact Lieutenant Noel Santiago at noel.santiago@maine.edu.

More desmophyllum dianthus, this time living in a cave that was so deep we couldn’t see the end of it with our flashlights.

November 5, 2012 Research

Rhian Waller, a deep-sea and polar ecologist at the University of Maine, recently traveled to the Huinay Scientific Field Station near the fjords of Chile to collect corals. The species Waller studies normally grow at depths that are hard to reach without a submersible vehicle, but because of the phenomenon of deep-water emergence — areas where animals are living in much more shallow levels than their usual distribution — she was able for the first time to see up close some of the species in their habitat. Waller, whose trip was funded by National Geographic and who also has funding from the National Science Foundation and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, traveled to Chile with Chris Rigaud, who runs UMaine’s Scientific Diving program. Through a slideshow of images take in Chile, Waller talks about what she saw in the fjords.

For more information about Waller’s research, go to umaine.edu/news/blog/2012/08/22/on-the-hunt-for-deep-sea-corals. A National Geographic Explorers biography page also has more information about Waller.