News from Maine Sea Grant | Fall 2016


*EDUCATION HIGHLIGHTS*

*Sea Grant supported students* have been writing about their research on
our blog. UMaine’s Jacque Miller shares a native Kansan’s perspective on
field research in Maine. <http://seagrant.umaine.edu/blog/midden-survey> A
fisherman from Venice, Italy shows Marissa McMahon of Northeastern
University how to find and cook soft-shell green crabs
<http://seagrant.umaine.edu/blog/softshell-green-crab>. Amalia Harrington
from the Wahle Lab at the Darling Marine Center introduces us to a study of
lobsters in deep water <http://seagrant.umaine.edu/blog/deep-lobsters>, and
scallop superstar Skylar Bayer reports from the International Marine
Conservation Congress
<http://seagrant.umaine.edu/blog/scientist-student-storyteller>. *Maine Sea
Grant,* UMaine Cooperative Extension, and the Appalachian Mountain Club are
hosting a meeting of the Northeast Regional Phenology Network
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/northeast-regional-phenology-network-nerpn-meeting-nov-17-18-2016-registration-26945643144>,
November 17-18 at Crawford Notch. Featuring presentations from phenology
scientists and citizen science program leaders throughout the Northeast,
the meeting will focus on sharing best management practices for promoting
science literacy and citizen engagement around these topics, and advancing
regional-scale research collaborations and data-sharing.


*EXTENSION HIGHLIGHTS*

*Sarah Redmond left her position* with Maine Sea Grant and University of
Maine Cooperative Extension in July. Please join us in wishing her the best
of luck as she works to establish her own seaweed farming business on the
coast of Maine. Please contact Paul Anderson <[log in to unmask]> with
questions about Maine Sea Grant's seaweed aquaculture research projects.

*With beach season *coming to a close, Maine Healthy Beaches Program
<http://mainehealthybeaches.org/> coordinator Keri Kaczor provided a brief
summary of water quality this summer. The lack of rain led to fewer health
advisories, but program staff remained busy training new beach managers and
volunteers.


*Extension associate Dana Morse* has embarked on a trip to Amori, Japan to
study scallop aquaculture practices.


*Southern Maine extension associate Kristen Grant *has returned from a
six-month sabbatical studying stakeholder engagement in community planning
for flood defense. Her work included professional development, literature
review, and partnership and curriculum development for training courses in
community engagement and facilitation. The centerpiece of her experience
was a six-week stay in the Netherlands, where she conducted interviews with
academics and practitioners from internationally renowned institutions such
as the Technical University of Delft and Deltares Research Institute.
Highlights of her research and travels can be found at
http://lifetimesnl.blogspot.nl

*RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS*

*High resolution satellite images *of the coast of Maine
<https://new.umaine.edu/coastalsat/> are now available from the Coastal
Satellite Oceanography team at University of Maine, part of a NOAA Sea
Grant and SEANET project
<http://seagrant.umaine.edu/research/projects/remote-sensing-for-aquaculture>
of Emmanuel Boss, Jordan Snyder, Ryan Weatherbee, and Damian Brady. Recent
updates include Penobscot images and images showing chlorophyll and
turbidity.


NOAA’s Ocean Acidification P <http://oceanacidification.noaa.gov/>rogram
and the Northeast Sea Grant Programs
<http://research.noaa.gov/LeavingPage.aspx?http%3A%2F%2Fweb.mit.edu%2Fseagrant%2Fpubs%2Fnortheast%2Findex.html>
joined
together to prioritize and fund new research on how ocean acidification is
affecting marine life
<http://research.noaa.gov/News/NewsArchive/LatestNews/tabid/684/ArtMID/1768/ArticleID/11858/Default.aspx>
including lobsters, clams, oysters, mussels and sand lance that are so
important to the Northeast region. Funding includes $800,000 in federal
funds from the two programs with an additional $400,000 non-federal match.
NOAA and Sea Grant drew on the work of the Northeast Coastal Acidification
Network
<http://research.noaa.gov/LeavingPage.aspx?http%3A%2F%2Fwww.necan.org%2F>
to set these priorities.



*PUBLICATIONS & SEA GRANT IN THE NEWS*

*Public Shoreline Access in Maine*: A Citizen’s Guide to Coastal and Ocean
Law <http://seagrant.umaine.edu/blog/coastal-law-guide>describes Maine law
and prominent court cases related to public use and access to the coast,
from the 17th-century Colonial Ordinance that reserved the public’s right
to “fishing, fowling and navigation” in the intertidal zone to the recent
decision by the Maine Supreme Judicial Court regarding public use of a
private road to access Cedar Beach in Harpswell. This is the third edition
of the publication and the first update in more than a decade.

*Connecticut Sea Grant* <http://beachduneguide.uconn.edu>* has adapted*
Maine’s Property Owner’s Guide to Managing Flooding, Erosion and Other
Coastal Hazards <http://seagrant.umaine.edu/coastal-hazards-guide>. Both
resources help people evaluate threats to coastal property and learn how to
protect homes from further damage, providing details about a variety of
actions such as as dune restoration, repairing seawalls, moving landward or
elevating structures.

*Extension associate Esperanza Stancioff* discusses her work with
lobstermen to address the Gulf of Maine’s changing climate in a Huffington
Post article, “Troubled waters: fishing in Gulf of Maine sheds light on
urgency in protecting oceans.”

*An article by communications director Catherine Schmitt* and 2015
communications assistant Shelby Hartin, “Marine Science at the University
of Maine, 1960-2015,” appears in the summer 2016 issue of the journal Maine
History
<https://umaine.edu/news/blog/2016/09/28/umaines-last-half-century-highlighted-maine-historical-societys-journal/>(Vol.
50), published by Maine Historical Society in conjunction with the
University of Maine History Department, features articles related to UMaine
history in the past half-century, guest edited by Howard Segal, professor
of history, with guest associate editor Deborah Rogers, professor of
English.

*UMaine graduate student, Jesica Waller,* along with Rick Wahle and
colleagues published a paper in ICES Journal of Marine Science on the joint
effects of ocean acidification and rising temperature on larval lobster
development <http://seagrant.umaine.edu/blog/lobster-climate-change>. They
found that elevated temperatures associated with projected warming trends
cause larvae to develop faster but also induce physiological stress,
leading to increased mortality rates.

*Several staff members are co-authors* on a paper by Jennifer Brewer in the
journal Antipode about the Maine Fishermen’s Forum as a model of
engagement, capacity building, and advancing collaborative fisheries
management <http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/anti.12270/full>.

*Sea Grant researcher Yong Chen* and colleagues published a paper in Acta
Oceanologica Sinica
<http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13131-016-0896-8>, evaluating
the underlying mechanisms for “fishing down marine food webs.” This
research takes a closer look at mean trophic level, a metric commonly used
to evaluate fishery sustainability.

*Sea Grant researcher and University of Southern Maine professor Karen
Wilson* co-authored a paper highlighting the effects of climate change on
estuaries
<http://afs.tandfonline.com.prxy4.ursus.maine.edu/doi/full/10.1080/03632415.2016.%20%201182506?scroll=top&amp;needAccess=true>
across the nation.

*UMaine postdoctoral researcher Haixue Shen* published a paper with Gayle
Zydlewski and colleagues that estimates the probability of fish
encountering a marine
<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096014811630547X>
hydrokinetic
device <http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096014811630547X>
(such as a tidal turbine), part of a Sea Grant research project
<http://seagrant.umaine.edu/research/projects/tidal-power-fish-survey>.


*Sea Grant Director for Research, Damian Brady,* Robert Steneck, and recent
UMaine graduate, Jennifer McHenry published work related to marine spatial
planning in which they identified important habitat variables and spatial
gradients that correlate with abundance, diversity, and commercial value of
species assemblages in the Gulf of Maine
<https://www.researchgate.net/publication/307884915_Abiotic_proxies_for_predictive_mapping_of_near-shore_benthic_assemblages_Implications_for_marine_spatial_planning>
using a remotely-operated vehicle (ROV).

*The place-based literary journal* The Catch: Writings from Downeast Maine
<http://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/the_catch/> is now accepting
submissions of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction for Volume V, to be
published in 2017.

*NOAA’s Office of Education and Outreach* highlighted the Signs of the
Seasons New England Phenology Program
<http://www.seagrant.umaine.edu/blog/noaa-signs-of-the-seasons> on Facebook
in August.

*Tune in to WERU-FM Community Radio* Mondays at noon to hear short stories
in celebration of the National Parks centennial. Our Coastal Conversations
in Acadia <http://www.seagrant.umaine.edu/coastalconversations/acadia> have
included citizen scientists past and present, park service staff, a ferry
captain, hawk-watchers, museum curators, scientists, and artists.

*Finally, this is a good time *to check out Maine’s reversing falls
<http://seagrant.umaine.edu/blog/reversingfalls>. These dramatic coastal
features are made even more stunning with the colors of autumn as a
backdrop. Get outside and enjoy the beauty of Maine!

*EVENTS*

*5 October* | Acadia National Park Science Symposium
<http://www.schoodicinstitute.org/event/acadia-national-park-science-symposium-acls/>
| Winter Harbor, ME

*13 October *| Regional Association for Research on the Gulf of Maine
<http://rargom.org/annualsciencemeeting> | Portsmouth, NH

*29 October – 1 November* | International Network on Offshore Renewable
Energy <http://inore.org/events/2016-inore-north-american-symposium/> |
Orono, ME

*15 November* | Maine Ocean and Coastal Acidification | Augusta, ME

*16-19 November *| International Conference on Shellfish Restoration
<http://www.scseagrant.org/Content/?cid=330> | Charleston, SC

*17-18 November* | Northeast Regional Phenology Network
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/northeast-regional-phenology-network-nerpn-meeting-nov-17-18-2016-registration-26945643144>
| Carroll, NH

*2-4 March* | Maine Fishermen’s Forum <http://mainefishermensforum.org/> |
Rockport, ME

*14 July* | The Beaches Conference
<http://www.seagrant.umaine.edu/maine-beaches-conference> | Wells, ME
*Ongoing* | Lobstering & The Maine Coast
<http://www.mainemaritimemuseum.org/new-lobstering-maine-coast-exhibit/> |
Maine Maritime Museum





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