Mainebiz and Phys.org shared a University of Maine news release highlighting a study that characterizes the range of public opinion regarding the growing aquaculture industry in Maine. The study, “Diverse Perspectives on Aquaculture Development in Maine,” was conducted by UMaine marine sciences faculty Joshua Stoll and Heather Leslie and master’s student Melissa Britsch. The researchers […]
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Heather Leslie, the director of the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center (DMC), penned a news release highlighting the DMC’s three-day marine sciences boot camp that was published in the Wiscasset Newspaper, the Boothbay Register and the Penobscot Bay Pilot. This orientation provides an opportunity for new marine sciences students to become acquainted with the […]
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Aquaculture creates many benefits for Maine people, including fresh seafood, stable jobs, and opportunities to enhance tourism, environmental conservation and community resilience. And, like all working waterfront activities, aquaculture operations occupy ocean space and are part of the busy coastal environment that we call home. People have varied perspectives about aquaculture and the future of […]
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Maine Public cited the University of Maine as co-leader of an ocean monitoring project funded by the National Science Foundation in an interview with co-investigator Dave Emerson, a senior research scientist at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences. The project involves capturing and sequencing organismal DNA in ocean water to assess species movement and to […]
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CNN Health interviewed University of Maine researchers Mary Ellen Camire and Joshua Stoll about what seafood is the healthiest for the human body and planet. Camire, a professor of food science and human nutrition, said “fattier fish from cold water are a better source of omega-3s,” and because it has the highest number of these […]
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Vancouver Is Awesome cited a University of Maine-led alternative seafood network study in a story about how one in the British Columbia-based city is thriving.
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Mainebiz reported that the University of Maine Darling Marine Center and the Maine Business School have introduced the “UMaine Blue Economy” program to deepen partnerships between science and business experts in the state’s fisheries and aquaculture sectors and other working-waterfront industries. A $50,000 award from the William Procter Scientific Innovation Fund supports the initiative, which seeks […]
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Phoebe Jekielek, director of research at Hurricane Island Center for Science and Leadership and a Ph.D. student at the University of Maine, and Dana Morse, a UMaine Cooperative Extension scallop specialist with Maine Sea Grant, spoke with the New York Times about scallop aquaculture in Maine. Jekielek is investigating the impact of scallop farming on […]
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The Boothbay Register noted that the University of Maine Darling Marine Center and Downeast Institute, a marine science field station for the University of Maine at Machias, co-hosted the annual Science for Economic impact and Application (SEA) Fellows Summer Science Symposium virtually on Aug. 10. More than 70 people participated in the virtual event, which […]
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In an effort to support Maine and the nation’s growing finfish aquaculture industry, University of Maine scientists seek to develop more effective, safe, sustainable and affordable fish vaccines using nanocellulose produced from Maine’s renewable wood pulp industry. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) awarded a team of UMaine aquaculture […]
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