United Press International (UPI) interviewed Damian Brady, an associate professor of marine sciences at the University of Maine; Amalia Harrington, a Maine Sea Grant marine Extension associate; and Andrew Goode, a UMaine postdoctoral researcher, about how climate change threatens Maine’s lobster industry and efforts to better understand those possible ramifications. “We’re not too hot for […]
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The Bangor Daily News and Machias Valley News Observer highlighted Lee Karp-Boss and Emmanuel Boss, professors in the University of Maine School of Marine Sciences, participating in a marine microbiome research expedition in the Atlantic Ocean overseen by the Tara Ocean Foundation.
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Lee Karp-Boss and Emmanuel Boss, professors at the University of Maine School of Marine Sciences, completed a month-long research cruise in the western South Atlantic Ocean as part of Tara Ocean Foundation’s Mission Microbiomes project. Tara, a French nonprofit that conducts ocean expeditions using its titular research schooner, launched the project in December 2020 to […]
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A first-of-its-kind climate vulnerability assessment of 52 marine, estuarine and riverine habitats in the Northeast United States found more than half impacted negatively by climate change. Coastal habitats also are highly vulnerable, due in part to nonclimate, human-caused stressors, according to a NOAA-led research team that included Damian Brady, University of Maine associate professor of […]
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Jocelyn Cooper of Boxford, Massachusetts, is a University of Maine senior majoring in marine sciences with a concentration in marine biology. She is a UMaine Center for Undergraduate Research-Maine Space Grant Consortium Fellow and Brooke Olson Award recipient, conducting research in the Waller Lab, led by associate professor Rhian Waller, at UMaine’s Darling Marine Center, […]
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A column published in the Forecaster highlighted tidal power impact research from the University of Maine Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions has been conducting. Gayle Zydlewski and Teresa Johnson, faculty from the UMaine School of Marine Sciences, have been working with local stakeholders in the Cobscook Bay area to ensure that tidal […]
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Robert Steneck, a professor of oceanography, marine biology and marine policy at the University of Maine, spoke to News Center Maine about new research conducted to help craft animal welfare legislation for the United Kingdom. The legislation, if adopted into law, would grant protections to sentient animals. An investigation led by the London School of […]
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Aquaculture North America interviewed Ian Bricknell, professor of aquaculture biology at the University of Maine, about emerging parasites among fish. “Aquatic parasites cost global finfish aquaculture around $9.6 billion a year and sea lice (Lepeophtheirus salmonis and Caligus rogercresseyi) represent around 11.5% of that,” said Bricknell.
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University of Maine President Joan Ferrini-Mundy will welcome more than 150 researchers, policy makers and coastal community partners to a blue economy virtual discussion at 12:30 p.m. on Nov. 18. The event will focus on the challenges and opportunities for Maine in the blue economy and how Maine’s public research university factors into solutions. Heather […]
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WCVB (Channel 5 in Boston) reported on University of Maine-affiliated lobster research. The program explored research conducted at the Wells Reserve at Laudholm that was funded by the UMaine Lobster Institute. It also featured Marin Skincare, a startup founded by UMaine alumni Amber Boutiette and Patrick Breeding that sells a specialty skincare product made with […]
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