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Leslie reviews ecosystem-based ocean management approaches

The director of the University of Maine Darling Marine Center says ecosystem-based approaches to restore ocean health provide a flexible framework for marine management and allow scientists and stakeholders to move beyond reactive and piecemeal solutions. Read the full story at UMaine News

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New approaches to teaching marine science

A novel approach to visualizing marine science and its infrastructure has been published in the Marine Technology Society Journal, authored by Annette deCharon, Leslie Smith, and Carla Companion. ”Characterizing Complex Marine Systems and Technology Using Visualized Vocabularies” describes how a computer sciences-based organizational structure may help undergraduate students explore and understand the Ocean Observatories Initiative […]

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UMaine scientific divers win awards at AAUS Symposium

Three scientific divers with ties to the University of Maine received awards at the 2015 American Academy of Underwater Sciences (AAUS) Symposium in Florida. Marissa McMahan, a Ph.D. candidate at Northwestern University in Illinois, is a former UMaine student and assistant instructor for an introduction to research diving course. She was the recipient of the […]

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Teaching salinity basics to the non-scientific community

Research on the saltiness of our seas has been disseminated by Annette deCharon and her team to hundreds of people in 14 countries. A recent Oceanography article, “Sharing the Importance of Ocean Salinity Beyond the Scientific Community”, describes their work with NASA scientists and engineers to illustrate and explain ties between ocean salinity, the water […]

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Human-marine environment interactions crux of DMC director’s study

Heather Leslie, director of the University of Maine Darling Marine Center, is leading a research project to deepen her interdisciplinary investigations of ecological and human dimensions of small-scale fisheries in Mexico’s Baja peninsula. A $1.79 million award from the National Science Foundation’s Coupled Natural and Human (CNH) Systems Program funds the three-year project. “My studies […]

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Researcher finds it takes guts to locate elusive shrimp

Rachel Lasley-Rasher wanted to learn more about highly mobile shrimp that are important food for baleen whales and commercial fish along the continental shelf from Cape Hatteras to Nova Scotia. Because of their significance in the marine food web, she said a better understanding of shrimp migration patterns could fill knowledge gaps and help predict […]

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Human-marine environment interactions crux of DMC director’s study

Heather Leslie, director of the University of Maine Darling Marine Center, is leading a research project to deepen her interdisciplinary investigations of ecological and human dimensions of small-scale fisheries in Mexico’s Baja peninsula. A $1.79 million award from the National Science Foundation’s Coupled Natural and Human (CNH) Systems Program funds the three-year project. “My studies […]

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