Planning for the future: UMM’s Marine Science Field Station

PI: Brian Beal, University of Maine at Machias

Collaborators: Heather Leslie, Darling Marine Center, Rebecca Van Beneden UM School of Marine Sciences, and Down East Institute (DEI)

The University of Maine at Machias (UMM), the University of Maine (UMaine) and the nonprofit Downeast Institute (DEI), have developed the Marine Science Field Station (MSFS) in Beals, Maine. This grant funds a two-day planning workshop at MSFS to bring together a dozen senior marine scientists with experience working at both large and small marine field stations and local community members to help our leadership team develop a 5-year strategic plan to manage and operate the field station in a way that maximizes scientific discovery, undergraduate and graduate research, and helps create new economic opportunities in eastern coastal Maine.