Princeton Review names UMaine among the best
Princeton Review names UMaine among the 380 best colleges for 2016.
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Mitchell student receives prestigious fellowship
Citing his innovative work on sustainable fisheries management at the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions, Joshua Stoll of Harrington, Maine, a graduate student in the School of Marine Sciences, has been awarded a prestigious yearlong fellowship from the Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation. Read full release.
Read moreDMC offers free summer Wednesday morning tours
The University of Maine Darling Marine Center offers free, guided, 90-minute tours of its waterfront laboratories at 10:30 a.m. Wednesdays through Aug. 19. Ashley Rossin, an undergraduate student in the School of Marine Sciences and a DMC summer intern, is the tour guide. She recounts the history of the center’s founding — 50 years ago […]
Read moreScience on tap: Darling worms: a rich legacy of polychaete research
The University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center (DMC) is host of the Science on Tap Seminar series at the Newcastle Publick House from 6–7 p.m. Wednesdays. On July 29, the series wraps up with a seminar by Pete Jumars, “Darling worms: A rich legacy of polychaete research.” Marine worms are critical food web components. They […]
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New director named for the Darling Marine Center
A leading conservation scientist has been hired to lead the University of Maine Darling Marine Center, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2015. Heather Leslie begins her tenure as director of UMaine’s coastal marine laboratory in Walpole on Aug. 1. Leslie comes to the center from Brown University, where she was the Peggy and Henry D. […]
Read moreScience on tap: Darling worms: a rich legacy of polychaete research
The University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center (DMC) is host of the Science on Tap Seminar series at the Newcastle Publick House from 6–7 p.m. Wednesdays. On July 29, the series wraps up with a seminar by Pete Jumars titled, “Darling worms: A rich legacy of polychaete research.” Marine worms are critical food web components. […]
Read moreWorld News announces DMC findings, news
World News carried University of Maine media releases about UMaine Darling Marine Center scientists discovering ocean chloride buried in sediment (http://article.wn.com/view/2015/07/10/DMC_Scientists_Discover_Ocean_Chloride_Buried_in_Sediment_Un/) and the DMC Science on Tap seminar on Spying on Oceans with Satellites (http://article.wn.com/view/2015/07/10/Spying_on_Oceans_with_Satellites_Robots_Focus_of_DMC_Science/).
Read moreMaine Sea Grant in BDN article on Eastport Port Authority building
The University of Maine Sea Grant Program was included in a Bangor Daily News article about the Eastport Area Chamber of Commerce regional visitor information center in the Eastport Port Authority building. The port authority designed the building to meet community needs and to rent space to organizations, including Maine Sea Grant, according to the […]
Read moreSpying on oceans with satellites, robots focus of DMC science on tap seminar
The Science on Tap Seminar series, sponsored by the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center (DMC), continues at the Newcastle Publick House, 6–7 p.m. on Wednesdays in July. July 15, the free public seminar, “Spying on our oceans with satellites and robots,” will be presented by Mary Jane Perry. The productivity of the oceans depends […]
Read moreDMC scientists discover ocean chloride buried in sediment
University of Maine marine scientists are part of a team that discovered chloride — the most common dissolved substance in seawater — can leave the ocean by sticking to organic particles that settle out of surface water and become buried in marine sediment. The discovery helps explain the fate of chloride in the ocean over […]
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