The Bangor Daily News published answers to the biggest questions posed during its webinar about warming in the Gulf of Maine and its ramifications. The online talk, which was part of the Bangor Daily News Climate Conversation series, featured a panel of researchers that included Yong Chen, a professor of fisheries population dynamics at the […]
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Phys.org reported on a study co-authored by Heather Leslie, director of the University of Maine Darling Marine Center, that highlights the importance of formal and informal collaborations in sustainable fisheries management. The study was published in the peer-reviewed journal Marine Policy.
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Seacoastonline.com, the Saco Bay News and the Machias Valley News Observer shared a University of Maine media release about Joseph Kelley archiving nearly four decades of photos he captured depicting the history and change in Maine landscapes. The professor emeritus of marine geology partnered with the Maine Geological Survey to archive 8,000 of his landscape […]
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Integrating local norms and fishermen’s knowledge into fisheries regulations helps increase trust in fisheries management institutions and can make it easier for co-management to work. That was a discovery of University of Maine researchers Kara Pellowe and Heather Leslie, who looked at the interplay between formal and informal institutions and the implications for the co-management […]
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Every year since 1982, Joseph Kelley captured photos of the fastest deteriorating portion of Maine’s coast, located in Camp Ellis, for use in his work as a state marine geologist, and research and teaching at the University of Maine. Later this fall, the public will have the opportunity to view decades of geologic transformation captured […]
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ScienceDaily reported on a study co-authored by Robert Steneck, a professor of oceanography, marine biology and marine policy at the University of Maine, about the effects of predator loss and climate change on the devastation of living reefs in Alaskan kelp forests. According to the report, the red alga Clathromorphum nereostratum built the limestone reefs, […]
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A University of Maine fisheries scientist and the director of the Lobster Institute at UMaine will participate in the second webinar of the Bangor Daily News Climate Conversation series at 4 p.m. Sept. 17. “BDN Climate Conversations: A Warming Gulf of Maine and our Marine Economy,” will feature a panel of experts that include Yong […]
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Maine Sea Grant College Program staff and University of Maine scientists will advance a multimillion-dollar NOAA Sea Grant American Lobster Initiative (ALI), which has announced a second round of research funding. The newly funded research will continue to address critical gaps in knowledge about how American lobster (Homarus americanus) is affected by environmental change in […]
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WABI (Channel 5) and News Center Maine reported the University of Maine has been awarded $236,574 as part of the Sea Grant Lobster Initiative funded by NOAA’s National Sea Grant College Program. “Fishing in hot water: defining sentinel indicators of resilience in the American lobster fishery” was awarded $125,808. And “Incorporating changes in thermal habitat […]
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WIA Report, which tracks the progress of women in Academia, posted a University of Maine story about Susan Brawley receiving the 2020 Award of Excellence from the Phycological Society of America. The society promotes research and teaching in all fields of phycology, the study of algae. Brawley is a professor of plant biology and cooperating […]
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