| School of Marine Sciences : The University of Maine

 

The School of Marine Sciences welcomes visitors to our site and encourages them to join our mission to develop scientific understanding of the marine environment that is Maine’s heritage, to integrate and communicate that knowledge through interdisciplinary undergraduate and graduate studies, and to apply it toward stewardship of sustainable marine resources. Our back yard, the Gulf of Maine, is the cradle of North American marine sciences, where the systems thinking of Henry Bryant Bigelow converged on the biological diversity explored by pioneers such as William Stimson, Louis and Alexander Agassiz and Addison Emery Verrill and later melded with the Hutchinsonian tradition of quantitative ecosystem analysis in the works of Gordon Riley.

We retain their passion for both scholarship and integration of marine sciences across the waterfront and all the depths below in terms of our expertise. Our faculty are well known for their research over a broad spectrum of marine studies from molecular biology and biotechnology to fisheries science, fisheries economics and anthropology, and from marine geology and coastal engineering to shellfish and finfish aquaculture, marine ecology and most aspects of oceanography.