The larval health of an Antarctic cold-water coral species may be resistant to warming water temperatures, a University of Maine study finds, bringing new hope for the climate change resilience of deep-sea ecosystems in the Western Antarctic Peninsula. The past few decades have shown unprecedented levels of warming, particularly in the Earth’s polar regions. The […]
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The University of Maine Darling Marine Center (DMC) hosted a three-day orientation program last week for 30 first-year students in the School of Marine Sciences (SMS). William “Wge” Ellis, associate director of UMaine SMS, leads the annual boot camp, in cooperation with DMC director Heather Leslie and the other seven UMaine faculty based at the […]
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In articles about the company American Unagi, which is opening the country’s first commercial eel aquaculture production facility in midcoast Maine, the Bangor Daily News and Maine Monitor noted that the company has been operating out of the University of Maine’s Center for Cooperative Aquaculture Research in Franklin since 2018. Egreenews shared the BDN report.
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PBS interviewed Steve Eddy, director of the University of Maine Center for Cooperative Aquaculture Research, and Deborah Bouchard, director of the university’s Aquaculture Research Institute, about new ways to make the industry more sustainable. Eddy discussed using lumpfish to remove sea lice from farmed salmon, as opposed to expensive showers to wash fish from boats. […]
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The Bangor Daily News, Boothbay Register, Wiscasset Newspaper and Lincoln County News reported on the sixth annual Science for Economic Impact and Application Fellows Symposium, held this year on Aug. 9 at the Downeast Institute in Beals. The SEA Fellows program encourages students in marine research to collaborate on climate-relevant science; network with other undergraduates; […]
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Nils Haëntjens, research assistant professor in the University of Maine’s School of Marine Sciences, has just returned from a two-week trip to the North Pole to study phytoplankton distributions in relation to sea ice properties on-board the cruise vessel Le Commandant Charcot. The vessel, which is also an ice breaker, was on its first voyage with passengers […]
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WABI (Channel 5 in Bangor) and Fishing Wire reported that the Local Catch Network, based in the School of Marine Sciences at the University of Maine, is working with fisheries scientist and science communicator, Emily De Sousa, to facilitate the second annual Find Your Seafood Week. The social media campaign helps connect community members directly […]
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Michael Horst, visiting scientist at the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center, spoke to the Portsmouth Herald about epizootic shell disease in lobsters, which is on the rise in the Gulf of Maine. Horst said that the disease causes bacteria and fungi to grow on the lobster’s carapace so that the lobster is unable to […]
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Beals, Maine — Twenty-five students from 15 universities nationwide presented their summer marine research at the sixth annual Science for Economic Impact and Application (SEA) Fellows Symposium, held this year at the Downeast Institute (DEI) in Beals, Maine. More than 50 people, including students and their family members; researchers; local municipal leaders and other community […]
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Ian Bricknell, professor of aquaculture biology at the University of Maine and internationally recognized researcher on sea lice, is a co-editor and major contributor to “Sea Lice Biology and Control,” published by 5m Books and available in October 2022. The other co-editors are James Bron and Jim Treasurer. Bricknell is one of 69 authors who […]
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