Marine Sciences

Weekly Publishes Release on Steneck’s Coral Reef Address in Dominican Republic

The Weekly published a University of Maine news release about University of Maine marine scientist Bob Steneck delivering a coral reef address on World Oceans Day in the Dominican Republic. Steneck encouraged Dominican Republic officials and stakeholders to preserve and improve coral reefs — what he calls the tropical rainforests of the sea — in […]

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Perry’s Research Makes NSF List of Ocean Facts

Mary Jane Perry’s research was included in a list of 10 things people might not know about the ocean that the National Science Foundation compiled in celebration of World Oceans Day on June 8. Perry is interim director of the Darling Marine Center and professor in the School of Marine Sciences. Her research appears as […]

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Oppenheim Earns Fellowship, Will Engage with Fisheries Policymakers

Noah Oppenheim, a graduate student at the University of Maine Darling Center in Walpole, Maine, has been awarded a Sea Grant Knauss Fellowship. The one-year paid fellowship provides a unique educational experience to graduate students interested in ocean, coastal and Great Lakes resources, and in national policy decisions affecting those resources. It matches graduate students […]

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Conference to Highlight Maine Beach Concerns

Registration is open for the 10th annual Maine Beaches Conference, scheduled for July 17 at Southern Maine Community College in South Portland. The conference seeks to provide continuing opportunities for communication and exchange of the most current information among beach stakeholders with diverse interests. Charles S. Colgan, professor of public policy and management in the […]

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UMaine Researchers Help Forge Planktonic Frontier

University of Maine oceanographers are part of a collaborative international team studying the microscopic world of plankton. During expeditions from 2009 to 2013 aboard Tara, researchers collected 35,000 samples from the world’s oceans. Data generated from the samples are providing unprecedented resources — including a catalog of several million new genes — expected to transform […]

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Boss Selected to IOCCG Committee

Oceanographer Emmanuel Boss became a member of the International Ocean-Colour Coordinating Group Committee at its 20th annual meeting March 3–5 in France. Boss is a professor in the University of Maine School of Marine Sciences. Other members hail from South Korea, South Africa, Ghana, Italy, India, Germany, Japan, France, Australia, People’s Republic of China, Canada, […]

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