Robert Steneck, a professor of marine sciences at the University of Maine, was quoted in a CBC News report about the viability of sea urchin aquaculture. Sea urchin aquaculture research is underway in several countries, including the U.S. and Canada, and a new land-based sea urchin aquaculture operation by Quoddy Savour Seafood Ltd, in Pennfield, […]
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Les Watling, School of Marine Sciences professor emeritus, was quoted in a Live Science article concerning the rare attack on an Australian teenager by tiny, shrimp-like crustaceans known as sea fleas, or lysianssid amphipods. The teen sustained hundreds of tiny needle-like wounds which bled profusely. The article states that anticoagulants produced by the amphipods could […]
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The University of Maine Advanced Manufacturing Center was included in an Assembly Magazine article about L.L. Bean’s tote bag production. L.L. Bean officials interested in developing automation to increase bag production, improve product quality and lessen physical demands on employees met with representatives of the AMC and Lanco Integrated. Lanco designed and manufactured a machine […]
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David Yarborough, a wild blueberry specialist with University of Maine Cooperative Extension, was quoted in a Portland Press Herald story about difficulties in the blueberry business. A glut of frozen blueberries has led to depressed prices and farmers are absorbing huge losses, according to the article. This summer, farmers may not pick berries because they’d […]
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Habib Dagher, executive director of the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center, was included in a Mainebiz article about legislation introduced by Sens. Susan Collins and Tom Carper to create financial incentives to spur the country’s emerging offshore wind industry. The Incentivizing Offshore Wind Power Act would create an investment tax credit redeemable […]
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Dana Morse, an aquaculture researcher with Maine Sea Grant, and Joshua Stoll, an assistant research professor of marine policy with the University of Maine School of Marine Sciences, were mentioned in a Portland Press Herald story about Georgetown resident Pat Burns. He co-founded Georgetown Aquaculture to help locals find alternatives to traditional fisheries. Morse has […]
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Casey Rogers, a rising senior at the University of Maine, shared her experience as a summer intern with the Maine Department of Education Migrant Education Program, with the Sun Journal. The Farmington native who majors in social work has been traveling to meet migrant workers harvesting broccoli in Aroostook County. “It was still just so […]
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Gulf Seafood Institute representatives wanting to learn how to jump-start an aquaculture hub in the Gulf of Mexico toured several facilities in Maine, including the University of Maine Center for Cooperative Aquaculture Research in Franklin. According to SeafoodSource, the 24 fishermen, scientists and state officials explored successful aquaculture companies and met seafood farmers. Carrie Castille, […]
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The Bangor Daily News highlighted University of Maine students Ian MacLellan, Parker Anderson, Kameron Haines and Madison Lawler, who are operating this season’s Black Bear Food Guild — an organic vegetable farm and community share agriculture (CSA) program at Rogers Farm. “I want to run my own farm one day, and this is a really […]
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A number of media outlets, including the Portland Press Herald, covered Jesse Orach and Rob Gomez’s dramatic finish at the TD Bank Beach to Beacon 10K race Saturday. Orach, who had a stellar academic, track and cross-country career at the University of Maine and was highlighted in the inaugural Black Bear Nation athletics magazine, won […]
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