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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A Portland Press Herald editorial criticizing the European Union ban on imports of live Maine lobster cited Robert Bayer, executive director of the University of Maine’s Lobster Institute. “I think what they’re saying, for the most part, is incorrect,” Bayer was quoted as saying in reference to claims by Swedish factions that American lobsters will […]
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Graduate research assistant Libby Gorse, whose lab is in the basement of Boardman Hall at the University of Maine, is excited about research she’s spearheading for a Sustainable Ecological Aquaculture Network (SEANET) project. She and Aria Amirbahman, professor of civil and environmental engineering, are studying the effects that aquaculture farms have on sediment below them. […]
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Three University of Maine marine science students authored an article about developing camaraderie and job skills in “Oceanography” magazine. Doctoral candidates Karen Stamieszkin, Melissa A. May and Alison Chase wrote about their experience creating the Marine Science Professional Development Club (MSPDC) and planning three student retreats at the seaside Darling Marine Center in Walpole. “Indeed, […]
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The Department of Sociology and Office of Multicultural Student Life are among the latest programs to upgrade to the university’s new website template. The Center for Cooperative Aquaculture Research and Newman Center also recently upgraded. The new umaine.edu and related pages debuted in summer 2015. For more information on the UMaine website conversion, contact Mike […]
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Undergraduate students from the School of Marine Sciences will present the research they conducted for their capstone projects on Thursday, April 7 in Wells Conference Center. Students prepared posters to explain their research, and will be available to answer questions from 3 to 5 p.m. An award ceremony will follow.
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University of Maine doctoral student Skylar Bayer and oceanographer Bob Steneck will deliver TEDx talks at separate events in May. Bayer, based at the Darling Marine Center in Walpole, will take the stage at TEDxPiscataquaRiver “On the Edge” on Friday, May 6, at 3S Artspace in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Bayer, a doctoral candidate in marine […]
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The Maine Sea Grant College Program has awarded funds to University of Maine faculty for three new research projects representing more than $500,000 in investment from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and matching sources. Hamish Greig, an assistant professor of stream ecology in the School of Biology and Ecology, plans to study the fate […]
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Registration is open for the 2016 Maine Sea Grant Research Symposium: Research in a Time of Rapid Change. The event will be held from 1–5 p.m. Thursday, April 14 in Buchanan Alumni House on the University of Maine campus. The biennial event serves as a forum for new and seasoned Maine Sea Grant investigators and […]
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