

Locations of the principal laboratory facilities used by researchers of the School of Marine Sciences. Two faculty members, Andy Pershing and Jeff Runge, are assigned to the Gulf of Maine Research Instititute GMRI) in Portland, but do their teaching at the Darling Marine Center and UMaine. Eight faculty members are assigned to the Darling Marine Center (DMC) and do their teaching both there and UMaine. The DMC is also a superbly equipped, cold-water shellfish aquaculture facility in the heart of Maine's bivalve aquaculture (oysters and mussels) region. UMaine faculty do finfish and multitrophic aquaculture research at the Center for Cooperative Aquaculture Research.