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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 […]
Read more
Karen Pianka, a graduate student in the School of Marine Sciences at the University of Maine, has been awarded a Sea Grant Knauss Fellowship that begins in February 2016. Named after John A. Knauss, a founder of Sea Grant, a program of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the fellowship matches graduate students with […]
Read more
The University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center (DMC) will host the Science on Tap Seminar series at the Newcastle Publick House on Wednesday evenings, from 6–7 p.m. The first Science On Tap Seminar will be presented by Dr. Bob Steneck on July 8. Where green sea urchins once roamed over a pavement of crustose coralline […]
Read more
The University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center (DMC) will host “Wednesday Walking Tours” for the months of July and August. The event will begin at 10:30 a.m. and will last approximately 90 minutes. Staff will give a walking tour of their waterfront laboratories and speak about current research projects focusing on lobster ecology and fisheries […]
Read more
Undergraduate marine science student starts her fourth year at UMaine in Antarctica.
Read more