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Tropical Fish ... In Maine?

January 25, 2012

Tropical Fish…In Maine?

by Muriel L. Hendrix

Maine-grown Picasso Clownfish.  Photo courtesy of Soren Hansen

 

Near the entrance of the 12,000-square-foot building in Franklin that is home to Sea & Reef Aquaculture, numerous tanks hold thousands of brightly colored tropical fish destined for pet stores and wholesalers across the United States. In some, duplicates of Finding Nemo’s  hero, the Tomato Clownfish, swim around each other, each confident in its own space; in others,...

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Robotic devices

January 12, 2012

UMaine aquatic physicist Emmanuel Boss was quoted in a story on the website Miller-McCune about the use of robotic devices that are helping a researcher in California keep track of how tiny organisms and object travel in sub-surface ocean currents. Boss said if the devices work at a reasonable price, they could revolutionize oceanography.

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MDI man builds reputation with whale bones

January 5, 2012

MDI man builds reputation with whale bones

By Bill Trotter, BDN Staff

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Dan DenDanto removes a rib from a 50-foot-long right whale named Stumpy at his workshop in Tremont on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2011.Buy Photo

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The front spine section a 50 foot long right whale named Stumpy hangs by a chain at Dan DenDanto's workshop in Tremont on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2011. ...

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UMaine to lead new razor clam research

December 9, 2011

UMaine to lead new razor clam research  

Paul Rawson of the University of Maine School of Marine Sciences is leading an effort to develop ways to grow razor clams on shellfish farms. With a $93,616 award from the Northeast Regional Aquaculture Center (NRAC), Rawson will work with  Roger Williams University, Woods Hole Sea Grant and Cape Cod Cooperative Extension, Maine Sea Grant and UMaine Cooperative Extension. A news release has details.  

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Ocean monitoring project

December 2, 2011

AP story on funding for ocean monitoring project  

The Boston Globe website included an Associated Press story about $1.7 million in funding for the Northeastern Regional Association of Coastal Ocean Observing Systems, known as NERACOOS, which includes UMaine's Physical Oceanography Group and UMaine Professor Neal Pettigrew. The   Bangor Daily News also ran the AP story, which mentioned the funding will enable researchers to collect data that will be used to benefit the fishing industry...

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Working Waterfront features UMaine scallop research

November 16, 2011

UMaine researchers Rick Wahle and Paul Rawson was included in a   Working Waterfront story about the upcoming re-opening of several scallop fishing grounds in Maine. Rawson's work is in connectivity among different scallop grounds, while Wahle has been conducting a study of whether scallop density on the sea floor affects spawning effectiveness.

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Research to prevent toxic red tide

November 10, 2011

 

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Danielle Waugh

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ORONO, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- After the toxic algal bloom called "red tide" closed nearly all Maine fisheries in 2009, researchers at the University of Maine are looking for better ways to detect it.

UMaine has received $574,028 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to develop new technology to monitor for red tide.

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New NOAA-funded research to provide early warning of red tide effects on Maine shellfish

November 4, 2011

New NOAA-funded research to provide early warning of red tide effects on Maine shellfish

November 3, 2011

Scientists at the University of Maine have been awarded $201,187 for the first year of an anticipated three-year $574,028 project to investigate methods that would provide early warning detection of the toxic Alexandrium blooms, also known as red tides, in the Gulf of Maine.

Some species of Alexandrium  algae produce a toxin that can become concentrated in shellfish tissue. ...

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UMaine, GMRI Researchers Awarded Grant to Explore Fish Body Size and Resiliency

October 3, 2011

Are bigger fish better?

That question is at the root of a collaborative research effort by scientists at the University of Maine and the Gulf of Maine Research Institute (GMRI). The project will look at how changes in the sizes of fish in a given population influence overall health and ability to resist external pressures such as fishing and climate change.

Andrew Pershing, a UMaine associate professor and ecosystem modeler at GMRI, will lead this groundbreaking study, which has received a...

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UMaine Education Scientist Shares First NASA Images

September 27, 2011

NASA’s new Aquarius instrument has produced its first global map of the salinity of the ocean surface, according to an announcement from NASA last week, and the map has provided an early glimpse of the mission’s anticipated discoveries.

UMaine Senior Marine Education Scientist Annette deCharon was particularly excited to see the first image, which was released Thursday, Sept. 22. In addition to her work with UMaine, deCharon is the education and public outreach manager for NASA on the...

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