Marine Sciences

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UMaine shows water temperature impacts bacteria present on lobsters shells

The health of Maine lobsters is always top of mind, and is becoming even more tenuous as the climate warms and changes the dynamics of ocean ecosystems. A University of Maine study found that the bacteria present on lobster shells is highly dependent on water temperature, indicating that climate change may have a direct impact […]

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Media report on UMaine ARI funding for recirculating aquaculture systems research

The Bangor Daily News, The Ellsworth American, the Mount Desert Islander, Aquafeed.com, RASTech Magazine, the Fish Site and Intrafish reported that the University of Maine Aquaculture Research Institute (ARI) has been awarded $2.25 million per year of congressional programmatic funding for recirculating aquaculture systems research. The funding was awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service, […]

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Media notes UMaine role in Camp Mummichog summer day camp

In an article about the Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust’s Camp Mummichog summer day camp, the Boothbay Register and Wiscasset Newspaper noted that campers ages of 9–12 who are participating in “Marine Adventures” July 31–Aug. 4 will conduct their own experiments, dissect a squid, visit a lab at the University of Maine Darling Marine Center to […]

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UMaine Aquaculture Research Institute awarded $2.25 million for recirculating aquaculture systems research

The University of Maine Aquaculture Research Institute (ARI) has been awarded $2.25 million per year of congressional programmatic funding for recirculating aquaculture systems research.  The funding was awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), and supports studies ARI scientists will conduct at the National Cold Water Marine Aquaculture Center.  Recirculating aquaculture […]

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French and Italian media cover latest Tara expedition, Tara-Europa

French media outlets, including La Provence, Ouest-France, Le Télégramme, Paris Match, France 24, Les Echos, and Le Figaro, and the Italian media outlet The Map Report reported on the latest Tara Ocean Expedition, Tara-Europa, which recently left the port of Lorient for a pan-European study of land-ocean interaction. Lee Karp-Boss and Emmanuel Boss, professors at […]

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Times Record column highlights UMaine food pilot plant

A Times Record column about gefilte fish and food waste reduction highlighted the University of Maine Dr. Matthew Highlands Pilot Plant, with a particular focus on its research to make food products from green crabs. “With the help of a deboning machine, they can separate the not-so-meaty crabs from their meat, resulting in a pile […]

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Civil Eats cites UMaine working waterfront data in article about oyster farmers

In an article about the challenges faced by young oyster farmers as working waterfronts disappear, Civil Eats cited 2019 data from the University of Maine that shows only 20 miles of Maine’s 5,300-mile coastline supports working-waterfront activities, a number that has decreased 20 percent since 2002. The data also show that working waterfronts generate more […]

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