Nine undergraduate and graduate students completed their scientific diving certification at the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center in Walpole. It is a certification that many marine science students put to good use throughout their academic and professional careers. According to UMaine’s diving safety officer, Christopher Rigaud of Jefferson, scientific divers study the underwater environment […]

Held January 11-13 in Providence, Rhode Island, the Northeast Aquaculture Conference & Exhibition (NACE) drew over 500 attendees, including sea farmers and marine researchers from the Damariscotta area. “There was a really good number of producers and scientists, including a lot of young people there, both from the entrepreneur side and science side.” said Dana […]

In 2016, the Edward A. Myers Marine Conservation Fund donated $2,000 to the K-12 education program at the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center in Walpole. The funds, which were raised through proceeds from the annual Pemaquid Oyster Festival in Damariscotta, provide teaching resources and classroom supplies for students who visit the center, and help […]

The University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center is now accepting registrations for the 2017 Developmental Biology Teaching Workshop (DBTW) which will be held June 27-July 1 in Walople. First offered in 1992, DBTW has been a mainstay of summer programming at the DMC. The professional development workshop introduces developmental biology instructors to a variety of […]

On Thursday, December 1, Kevin Du Clos successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis at the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center in Walpole. The defense not only earned Du Clos a Ph.D. in Oceanography from the School of Marine Sciences, but it was also the conclusion of a long and productive research career at the DMC […]

On Thursday, November 17, Jesica Waller, a graduate student in the University of Maine School of Marine Sciences, successfully defended her master’s thesis at the Darling Marine Center in Walpole. Waller’s research examines how lobster larvae may be impacted by ocean acidification and warming. Earlier this fall, her work received international media attention as the […]

Carl Huntsberger and Whitley Gilbert are two new graduate students at the Darling Marine Center who would like their research to support better management of two of Maine’s most valuable natural resources—clean water and lobsters. Huntsberger was 9 years old when he got his lobster license. He knew that a legal-sized lobster, also known as […]