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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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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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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WCHS6 featured the SEANET buoy project on the evening news. If you missed the newscast about this exciting project, watch in now!
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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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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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Rick Wahle and Bob Steneck provide scientific credence to this report on lobsters in the Gulf of Maine. http://qz.com/506376/lobsters-2/
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Jes Waller, Maine lobsters and climate change are featured on Al Jazeera English! Read more and watch the interview at UMaine News!
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In a recent Portland Press Herald article, Dr. Rick Wahle comments on the growing black sea bass populations in New England waters and their potential impact on Maine’s lobster. Read the full story here.
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An underwater sea slug has evolved chemical foraging and defense abilities that are functionally identical to those of terrestrial insects, despite being unrelated to their land-based counterparts and living in vastly different habitats for 400 million years. “Specialized herbivores on land and sea appear to make a living in similar ways,” says University of Maine […]
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