Fish come from other fish. But understanding how fish reproduce, their habitat and how to care for them need to be valued if fishing is to continue in future generations. In Skylar Bayer’s humorous TEDxPiscataquaRiver talk titled “Why the Sex Lives of our Seafood Matter,” she discusses three iconic New England seafood species — Atlantic […]
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Old Town High School students will showcase research on a marine worm that is causing problems for oyster farmers in the state and around the world at a May 25 presentation at the University of Maine. Starting at noon in Norman Smith Hall, Room 107, four underclassmen will each share a slide show on the […]
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Register by June 1 for the Natural Science Illustration Workshop held July 11–15 at the University of Maine Darling Marine Center in Walpole. The workshop is for people who want to illustrate a natural history journal with sketches or watercolor, hone skills and talents to create scientifically accurate drawings, or plan to bring art and […]
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Chris Davis, executive director of the Maine Aquaculture Innovation Center, will instruct an “Applied Methods in Shellfish Farming Workshop” June 20–24 at the University of Maine Darling Marine Center in Walpole. The intensive, hands-on workshop is intended to familiarize participants with practical methods used to cultivate commercially important bivalve molluscs, including oysters, mussels, clams and […]
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An international research team led by Heather Leslie found fishermen’s decisions are shaped by differences in both natural and social environments. The team discovered the community with stronger fishing rights exerted more control over fishermen’s decisions than communities with weaker rights, and did so in a way consistent with the impacts of climate variability on […]
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Rhian Waller received an incredible gift to celebrate the National Park System’s 100th anniversary in 2016. The University of Maine associate professor led the first-ever extensive expedition of the underwater fjords in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in Alaska. “Glacier Bay National Park is such an amazing area, it’s very hard to put it […]
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Faculty members in marine sciences, engineering technology and political science have been named recipients of Presidential Achievement Awards, the University of Maine’s top honors. Howard M. “Mac” Gray, professor of construction engineering technology, will receive the 2016 Presidential Outstanding Teaching Award; Neal R. Pettigrew, professor of oceanography, will receive the 2016 Presidential Research and Creative […]
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Intoxicated people aren’t alone in engaging in risky behavior. Intoxicated tiny crustaceans in the ocean — or copepods — do too. And it can get them killed. Rachel Lasley-Rasher studies small shrimp-like animals that become intoxicated from grazing on blooms of toxic phytoplankton. The University of Maine marine researcher said the common calanoid copepods Temora […]
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For people looking to settle down, a location’s odor can be a factor in whether they stay or go. Turns out the same is true for mussel larvae. Mussel larvae swim toward odors from adult mussels, and swim away from odors from predators, including green crabs and dog whelks, says Scott Morello, a visiting researcher […]
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University of Maine marine scientist Rick Wahle was quoted in a Gloucester Daily Times editorial that argued American lobsters are not a threat to the Sweden lobster industry and that U.S. officials need to protect the trade market. “Attempts to introduce American lobsters elsewhere have failed,” Wahle was quoted in the editorial. “A newly introduced […]
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