Darling Marine Center

On Friday, June 30, Dr. Alison Rieser will give a talk on herring at the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center. The seminar will take place in Brooke Hall on the DMC’s lower waterfront campus beginning at 10:30 a.m. The event is free and open to the public, but registration is requested at tinyurl.com/y87uxsmw. To […]

Attention oyster lovers! The sea farmers of the Damariscotta River will host a celebration of the region’s finest farmed oysters on Saturday, June 24. The Damariscotta River Oyster Celebration will take place at the Darrows Barn in Damariscotta. Doors open at 12 p.m. and the event wraps up at 3 p.m. Proceeds from the event […]

On Friday, June 23, Director of the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center Dr. Heather Leslie will give a talk titled Resilient Coastal Communities and Marine Ecosystems: Translating science into action. Her talk will kick off the DMC’s science seminar series, where eight renowned marine scientists will engage the public in topics ranging from the […]

The University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center (DMC) will host a book signing and talk by Jonathan White, author of “Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean.” The event takes place on March 1 at noon. White is an expert mariner and marine conservationist who ran educational programs aboard his 65-foot wooden schooner Crusader […]

Friends and neighbors of the Darling Marine Center are invited to an Autumn Dessert Social on Wednesday, October 19 to learn about the developing plans for the future of University of Maine’s marine laboratory. The social will take place in Brooke Hall on the DMC’s lower waterfront campus from 6:30 to 8:00 PM. The event […]

Cascade Sorte, a biologist who documented a massive decline in wild blue mussels in the Gulf of Maine, will be at the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center (DMC) in Walpole, on Thursday, October 6, to present a “brown-bag” seminar. Her talk, “Global change consequences and coping mechanisms in coastal marine systems,” starts at noon. […]

Dr. Molly Jacobs, a visiting researcher at University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center (DMC) in Walpole, will present a “brown-bag” seminar at the center on Thursday, September 15th at 12 noon. Her talk is titled: Age-appropriate outfits? Decorating behavior in juvenile and adult decorator crabs (Oregonia gracilis). “My current work focuses on the behavioral ecology of crabs, […]

Dr. Jim Estes, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz and a member of the esteemed National Academy of Science, will present a “brown-bag” seminar at the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center (DMC) in Walpole on Thursday, September 8th at 12noon. The talk is titled: Adventures in […]

This summer the DMC will host several noontime seminars. Please join us Wednesdays at 12:00pm in Brooke Hall, on the DMC’s lower waterfront campus. Bring a brown bag lunch if you wish. July 6  •  Stuck on you? Slippery adhesion in the nuchal joints of squids Dr. Joe Thompson, Franklin & Marshall College (and long-time […]

On Wednesday mornings at 10:30am, the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center (DMC) in Walpole offers free, guided tours of its waterfront laboratories. Your tour guide, an undergraduate student at UMaine School of Marine Sciences and summer intern at the DMC, will offer an overview of our location on the Damariscotta River estuary before leading […]