Signature and Emerging Areas

Maine coast

$20 million grant awarded for Maine Environmental DNA initiative to support coastal ecosystems 

A $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation EPSCoR program will fund a five-year initiative that aims to revolutionize environmental monitoring, ecological understanding and sustainability of coastal ecosystems. The University of Maine is partnering with Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences and other collaborators in education, government agencies, citizen’s groups and local industry statewide. “The […]

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Calais Advertiser covers Newsom’s research on POW camp on Passamaquoddy land

The Calais Advertiser announced that Bonnie Newsom will conduct archeological research on a World War II German prisoner-of-war camp located on Passamaquoddy land in Eastern Maine. Newsom, an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Maine, will collaborate with Donald Soctomah, a Passamaquoddy Tribal Historic Preservation officer. The American Association of University Women recognized […]

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Mitchell talks with WVII about encounter with ‘one who eats a lot’

John Bear Mitchell shared his encounter with a creature for a WVII (Channel 7) piece titled “Some say Bigfoot seen in Maine.” “I never expected it, I never wanted it, never thought it would ever happen, but this happened,” said Mitchell, a citizen of the Penobscot Nation and the University of Maine Wabanaki Center outreach […]

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Seacoastonline reports on Dagher’s talk about offshore wind in York

Seacoastonline.com covered a talk by Habib Dagher at the York Community Auditorium. “I asked myself, what is the world going to look like for our children,” said the executive director of the Advanced Structures and Composites Center at the University of Maine. “The challenge is to work together to use offshore wind to electrify heating […]

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Megan Driscoll presents at the Darling Marine Center

Students share marine science research at SEA Fellows Symposium

Megan Driscoll wants to replace plastic made of petroleum with plastic made of algae.  So this summer, the University of Maine intern made algae-based bioplastic and documented how it broke down over time in the Damariscotta River Estuary.   Driscoll, a junior marine sciences major from Chelmsford, Massachusetts, presented her project Aug. 6 at the fourth […]

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Graduate students to showcase marine research Aug. 16 at DMC 

Graduate students in the University of Maine School of Marine Sciences will showcase their research at 10:30 a.m. Friday, Aug. 16, in Brooke Hall at the Darling Marine Center.  Students will give short presentations on coastal community resilience, nutrient cycling in Maine coastal waters, ecology of bottom-dwelling ocean species, and Maine’s aquaculture industry. This free, […]

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McGreavy quoted in Maine Public report on clam fisheries

Bridie McGreavy, an assistant professor of environmental communication at the University of Maine, was quoted in the Maine Public report “After Last Year’s Poor Harvest, Mainers Work To Help Clam Fisheries Bounce Back.” Last year’s harvest of soft-shell clams was one of the worst in decades, due in part to closures of polluted flats and […]

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