Darling Marine Center

Dr. Rick Wahle, Dr. Bob Steneck and graduate student Noah Oppenheim are working with Maine colleagues to predict lobster molt and settlement, and help fishermen gauge landings in a warming Gulf of Maine. Read more about the project in the January 22, 2015 edition of  Working Waterfront.

An article in the Sunday edition of the Portland Press Herald (January 25, 2015) focused on sustainable means of harvesting scallops. Dr. Bob Steneck sees both sides of the diver/dragger debate. Read the full story here.  

Ocean acidification was the topic of discussion on WERU’s public affairs program Coastal Conversations. Natalie Springuel of Maine Sea Grant hosted the session which aired January 23, 2105. Her guests included Damian Brady, Assistant Professor at UMaine School for Marine Sciences at the Darling Marine Center, and Associate Director of Research at Sea Grant; as […]

Dr. Warren Riess was interviewed by Irwin Gratz for MPBN News. The topic of conversation was “The Ship That Held Up Wall Street,” Warren’s latest book which recounts the discovery, excavation and history of an 18th-century merchant vessel found in lower Manhattan. If you missed the original broadcast which aired on December 29, you can […]

The 2014 edition of  Making Waves, is in the mail! It’s also posted here, on the DMC’s website, along with back issues spanning seventeen years.

UMaine scientists including Dr. Mary Jane Perry and Dr. Damian Brady at the DMC are focused on extreme weather—predicting it and understanding its consequences on society and the marine environment.  Their perspectives and those of other UMaine researchers is highlighted are the current edition of UMaine Today. Read the article Watch the video

University of New Hampshire (UNH) undergraduate Kate Cart spent the last two summers at the Darling Marine Center. Working with Dr. Rachel Lasley-Rasher, Kate has been studying the effects of turbidity on mysid feeding behavior. Her experience has been highlighted in UNH Today.

The Universities of Maine (UM) and New England (UNE) recently launched the Sustainable Ecological Aquaculture Network (SEANET), supported by a major National Science Foundation grant. Graduate students will investigate marine social ecological systems while developing sustainable ecological aquaculture in Maine. SEANET will create a globally recognized research network that advances new knowledge and innovation to […]

Maine Sea Grant has announced the Oct. 1, 2014 appointment of Damian Brady as assistant director for research. Brady, an assistant research professor in the School of Marine Sciences at the Darling Marine Center, earned his doctorate at the University of Delaware in 2008. His research combines approaches from disciplines including marine biology, biogeochemistry and […]

When an 18th-century ship was unearthed during a 1982 pre-construction dig at 175 Water St. in Lower Manhattan, nautical archaeologist Warren Riess was called in to find out how it got there. After a year of fieldwork that included co-excavating the remains of the Colonial merchant ship, as well as more than three decades of […]