Darling Marine Center

WMTW interviewed Mary Jane Perry about extreme weather forecasting and research conducted by UMaine faculty and students in the School of Marine Sciences and the Climate Change Institute. The University received a $1.5 million grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to better predict extreme storms. The underwater footage in the clip was supplied by […]

Mary Jane Perry, interim director of the University of Maine Darling Marine Center in Walpole, is co-chair of the conference, Ocean Optics XXII, being held at Holiday Inn by the Bay. UMaine researchers and graduate students are well represented. Perry, UMaine marine scientist Ivona Cetinic, and UMaine graduate Wayne Slade are reporting on their work […]

On Earth interviews SMS/DMC faculty Bob Steneck about invading green crabs within Maine waters. Clawing Their Way to the Top INVASIVES WEEK: Ravenous and hardy, green crabs are eating up Maine’s softshell clams. How did a crustacean no wider than a credit card get an entire state fishery in its pincers?

Dr. Bob Steneck was part of an international study recently published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, that highlights the delicate balance that exists between bioerosion and carbonate or limestone production on coral reefs. This publication entitled:  “Changing dynamics of Caribbean reef carbonate budgets: emergency of reef bioeroders as critical controls on […]

Nathan Briggs has accepted a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in France. He will collaborate with Hervé Claustre at the Laboratoire d’Oceanographie de Villefranche furthering his study of marine snow in the twilight zone. Read the full media release at http://umaine.edu/news/blog/2014/10/09/monitoring-carbon-movement/

SMS/DMC faculty Rhian Waller and graduate student Steve Auscavitch join scientists from all over the country and world participating in a “Remote Research Cruise” aboard the Okeanos Explorer. Rhian and Steve will join scientists from the University of Connecticut at a command center at the Mystic Aquarium (CT), where they will observe ROV footage live […]

Douglas Rasher, a postdoctoral research associate at the DMC, was chosen the recipient of the 2014 Mercer Award for his eye-opening study on Fiji’s coral reefs that provided insight into management and conservation of coral reefs. He  joins influential scientists, and some of his role models — E.O. Wilson, Jane Lubchenco, Robert MacArthur and Joseph […]

Dr. Ivona Cetinić, University of Maine Research Associate at the Darling Marine Center, sets sail today as a virtual participant aboard the R/V New Horizon to study phytoplankton in the equatorial Pacific Ocean. All the scientists on this research cruise are interested in the role phytoplankton play in nutrient cycling and ocean chemistry. Cetinić is […]

Dr. Rhian Waller has received $413,562 from NOAA to study the deep-water corral communities in the Gulf of Maine which she describes as nothing less than “SPECTACULAR!” The project builds on a collaborative project started this summer aboard the R/V Connecticut, http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/press_release/pr2014/scispot/ss1408/. The Alaska Fisheries Science Center granted Waller $48,326 to continue studying the reproduction […]

Dr. Damian Brady has received $123,809 from the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute for Food and Agriculture’s Water Sustainability and Climate Program to study how farmers adapt their agricultural practices in response to climate change, how these changes are processed throughout the watershed and their ultimate affect the ecosystem […]