Despite an abundance of egg-bearing adult lobsters and record-breaking harvests, the number of young lobsters continues to fall in the Gulf of Maine. That’s the 2016 update from the American Lobster Settlement Index (ALSI), an international monitoring program founded in 1989 by University of Maine marine scientist Rick Wahle. The ALSI, a collaboration between fishermen […]
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The University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center community recently gathered along the shore of the Damariscotta River for a ribbon cutting ceremony at their new Lowes Cove pier. More than 50 people were in attendance. Located on the north side of Lowes Cove, the new pier and floating docks will be used extensively by UMaine […]
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Skylar Bayer, a graduate student in the University of Maine’s School of Marine Sciences, successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation at the Darling Marine Center in Walpole. Dr. Rick Wahle was her advisor. With a background in deep sea ecology, Bayer came to the DMC in 2011 to study the fertilization and reproductive ecology of commercially important fisheries species. Focusing on […]
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By nature, Bob Steneck is an glass-half-full kind of guy. The University of Maine marine ecologist will join other hopeful scientists, environmentalists, civic leaders and media from around the world at the Smithsonian Earth Optimism Summit in Washington, D.C. on Earth Day weekend. He’ll be one of the approximately 250 speakers to share examples of […]
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A hole in the ice is not just a sign of the traditional Maine ice fishermen. It’s also a passageway to a beautiful underwater world that requires confidence and a special set of skills to safely explore. A group of divers from the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center took the plunge, training as ice […]
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Dr. Rick Wahle and graduate student Carl Huntsberger are testing a new technique for aging lobsters at the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center in Walpole. Wahle pointed out that unlike fish, mollusks and trees, lobsters and other crustaceans molt, casting off their skeletons and discarding any outer signs of growth bands. That means a […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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