Marine Sciences

Printing Services earns platinum award for DMC brochure

The Association of College and University Printers (ACUP+) awarded University of Maine Printing Services a first-place platinum production award (large institution) for its work on a Darling Marine Center trifold recruitment brochure. “I am very proud of our staff for their outstanding work producing this brochure and for identifying this job as a competition worthy […]

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Lobster research

UMaine researchers find rising ocean temperatures, acidification worsen immune response, physiology in lobsters  

Rising ocean temperatures and acidification, which results from decreasing pH levels, can increase adolescent lobsters’ vulnerability to disease and impact their physiology, according to University of Maine scientists. Amalia Harrington studied the individual and combined effects of increased ocean acidification and warmth on adolescent, female American lobsters as a postdoctoral researcher at UMaine. Faculty from […]

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Leslie to share progress of Maine Climate Council on Aug. 7

Heather Leslie will present a webinar titled “Climate science and action for Maine’s coast and coastal communities” at 10:30 a.m. Friday, Aug. 7. Leslie is the director of the Darling Marine Center and an associate professor in the School of Marine Sciences. Since September 2019, she has co-led the Coastal and Marine Working Group of […]

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Wiscasset Newspaper promotes Estapa’s ocean life, climate webinar

The Wiscasset Newspaper ran a University of Maine Darling Marine Center media release about Margaret Estapa’s free webinar “Untangling the links between ocean life, the global carbon cycle, and future climate” at 10:30 a.m. Friday, July 24. Estapa, now an assistant professor of geosciences at Skidmore College, will join UMaine later this summer as an […]

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Ocean research

Estapa to discuss links between ocean life, future climate in DMC webinar

Margaret Estapa will talk about “Untangling the links between ocean life, the global carbon cycle, and future climate” at 10:30 a.m. Friday, July 24, during a free webinar hosted by the University of Maine Darling Marine Center in Walpole.  The assistant professor of geosciences at Skidmore College in upstate New York will soon be an […]

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Kelley speaks with AP about rising sea levels threatening salt marshes 

The Associated Press interviewed Joseph Kelley, a professor of marine geology at the University of Maine, about the threat rising sea levels pose to salt marshes. A group of scientists led by Neil Ganju, a Woods Hole, Massachusetts-based oceanographer, found that four of the country’s coastal salt marshes would be gone in 350 years, and […]

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MD Islander highlights Muscat selection as NOAA scholar

The Mount Desert Islander profiled University of Maine student Abigail Muscat, who was recently named a 2020 Ernest A. Hollings Undergraduate Scholar by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Muscat, a third-year marine sciences major and international affairs minor from Tremont, is the fourth UMaine student in four years to receive this prestigious scholarship. After […]

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Media highlight UMaine’s assistance for new RAS facility

Mainebiz and The Ellsworth American highlighted the University of Maine assisting Kingfish Maine, a Dutch land-based aquaculture company, in building a recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) facility in Jonesport. UMaine conducted a study on the economic effects of the project on Jonesport for the company. The preliminary data from the study “shows a potential value-added, multiplier impact […]

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News Center Maine highlights UNE documentary featuring Wahle

News Center Maine reported on a documentary created by the University of England about the effects of climate change on Maine that features Richard Wahle, a research professor in the University of Maine School of Marine Sciences and director of the Loberst Institute at UMaine. “Reckoning with Climate Change in the Gulf of Maine,” which […]

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