On Friday, July 28, Dr. Jeremy Rich will give a talk titled “Exploring Life at Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents.” The seminar will take place in Brooke Hall at the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center beginning at 10:30 a.m. The event is free and open to the public, but registration is requested at tinyurl.com/y87uxsmw. Deep-sea hydrothermal […]
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On Friday, July 21, Dr. Damian Brady will give a talk titled “One if by land, two if by sea: Understanding how Maine estuaries are changing.” The seminar will take place in Brooke Hall at the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center beginning at 10:30 a.m. The event is free and open to the public, […]
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On Friday, July 14, Dr. Jeffrey Runge will give a talk titled Plankton, Right Whales, and Change in Gulf of Maine Ecosystem. The seminar will take place in Brooke Hall at the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center beginning at 10:30 a.m. The event is free and open to the public, but registration is requested […]
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On Friday, July 7, Dana Morse will give a talk on scallops and their impact on Maine’s fishing and farming industry. The seminar will take place in Brooke Hall at the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center beginning at 10:30 a.m. The event is free and open to the public, but registration is requested at […]
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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 […]
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For the past eight years, the DMC has been hosting Natural Science Illustration Workshops led by David Wheeler. Before moving to Maine two years ago, David taught illustration to college students in New York for over three decades. Last July, he and his wife, Catherine Sanderson, opened Habitat: Open Ocean — a museum in Harpswell that […]
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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 […]
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“Are we going to be dissecting something?” a Great Salt Bay third-grader asked as he entered the classroom. When he got a whiff of the empty petri dish in front of him, he announced, seemingly pleased with his guess: “Yup, this smells dissected.” For the next 45 minutes, he and other students learned about oyster […]
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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 […]
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Oxford University postdoctoral researcher Michelle Taylor discovered two coral species while working with University of Maine oceanographer Rhian Waller and marine science students Genevieve Wilson and Jennifer Field at the Darling Marine Center. “It is unusual to find new ones, and that is definitely exciting,” Taylor says. In England, Taylor will describe the corals’ characteristics […]
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