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Boothbay Register, Lincoln County News highlight Girgis’ work on environmental monitoring buoy development

The Boothbay Register and The Lincoln County News highlighted University of Maine alumnus Joshua Girgis’ work in helping build an affordable environmental monitoring buoy that oyster and seaweed farmers could use to track conditions on their farms. They buoy gathers real-time water quality information, including ocean temperature, salinity and productivity, that can help aquaculture producers […]

Mainebiz cites UMaine studies in article on warming waters, lobster

Mainebiz cited two 2019 University of Maine studies in the article “Warming Gulf of Maine waters may be stunting lobster growth.” The studies point to the role of a warming ocean and local oceanographic differences in the rise and fall of lobster populations along the coast from southern New England to Atlantic Canada, the article […]

Size-selective fishing results in trade-offs between fishery yield, reproductive productivity

How people fish matters perhaps as much as the quantity harvested, say University of Maine researchers Kara Pellowe and Heather Leslie. Their study published in Ecosphere details the impacts of size-selective fishing on an economically important species of clam in Baja California Sur, Mexico. The information is critical for fisheries managers to design policies that […]

Blue mussels’ ability to buffer climate-induced stress could benefit aquaculture

Blue mussels can change patterns of gene expression to make more proteins that help with heat stress and facilitate energy production. This ability makes wild blue mussels (genus Mytilus) somewhat resilient to higher ocean temperature, acidification and less food, says Sarah Kingston, a visiting professor in the School of Marine Sciences at the University of […]

DMC shellfish study highlights changes in Damariscotta River

Darling Marine Center researcher Kara Pellowe and colleagues found very few clams of commercial size (2 inches or larger) last summer in any of the intertidal flats managed by the towns of Damariscotta and Newcastle. Their discovery came during a collaborative project in which they counted shellfish (soft-shell clams, quahogs, razor clams, mussels and oysters) […]

Boothbay Register, Wiscasset Newspaper publish DMC release on new study of how fishermen adapt to environmental change

Boothbay Register and Wiscasset Newspaper published a University of Maine Darling Marine Center news release on a new study of how fishermen adapt to environmental change, led by UMaine researchers Kara Pellowe and Heather Leslie. The study found that regulations and financial resources that influence how people fish have as great an effect on how […]

Boothbay Register publishes DMC release on Damariscotta River shellfish study

The Boothbay Register published a University of Maine Darling Marine Center release about a new study of shellfish in the Damariscotta River. The study was led by Kara Pellowe and supported by a grant from the Broad Reach Fund. Researchers counted soft-shell clams, quahogs, razor clams, mussels and oysters living in the intertidal flats managed […]

Lincoln County News covers Project Share Day with DMC students

The Lincoln County News reported students at Lincoln Academy in Newcastle exchanged ideas with students from the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center at the first Project Share Day. “It’s a show-and-tell, an exchange of ‘this is what we’ve done this semester at the college level and the high school level.’ So it’s a very […]

Boothbay Register reports on partnership between DMC, Bigelow Lab

Boothbay Register published a University of Maine Darling Marine Center news release about the collaboration between the Walpole-based center and Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay. Leaders of the scientific institutions regularly look for opportunities to strengthen the longstanding partnership, such as through Maine eDNA, a new $20 million research and education collaboration. […]

Boothbay Register, Wiscasset Newspaper report DMC students take touch tank to Pemaquid festival

Boothbay Register and Wiscasset Newspaper published a University of Maine Darling Marine Center news release about Semester by the Sea students running a touch tank at the Pemaquid Oyster Festival in September. The free festival included educational exhibits, vendors, music and oysters. Each year, the Semester by the Sea volunteers bring the touch tank to the […]

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