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![Dozens of joyful students and teachers laugh and smile in a room filled with green and blue balloons.]()
Hands-On Science Reaches 100,000 Students
Our Education team has achieved an extraordinary milestone for science literacy in Maine. After a decade of welcoming 5th and 6th graders into our lab, …
Tidings
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![An underwater photo shows a group of bluefin tuna swimming to the right as a net appears behind them.]()
Understanding Bluefin Tuna
Bluefin tuna in the Gulf of Maine are a critically important species, both biologically and commercially.
Perspectives
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New LabVenture on the Horizon
On a chilly fall morning in 2015, CEO and President Don Perkins took to a press conference podium to announce the largest grant in our …
Announcements
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Reaching Resilience: Climate Services for Gulf of Maine Communities
What resilience looks like in Portland might be different than what it looks like in Tremont, but our Climate Center team provides cities and towns …
Perspectives
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![This image shows cars at a flooded intersection, with gray water coming up to their tailights as heavy rain pours down.]()
Preparing for Sea Level Rise
The impacts of climate change are becoming increasingly visible in our state and across the nation. You've probably noticed more frequent news coverage of intense …
Perspectives
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![A gloved hand holds a lobster belly up to the camera.]()
New Study: Warming, Conservation, and Lobsters
A 2018 study, led by scientists at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute and colleagues at the University of Maine and NOAA, demonstrates how conservation …
Announcements
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![An aqua blue background lies behind line-drawn, white icons of a school, a fishing boat, and fish at the bottom of the sea. In the top right, there is an icon in white that looks like an earlobe, and the words "The Sounding Line" appear in white in the bottom left.]()
Local Seafood and the Supply Chain
We need to level the playing field in the massive global seafood marketplace. Many people care about maintaining working waterfronts in this region long into …
The Sounding Line
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New: Research Experience for Undergrads
For over a decade, college students have participated in our robust summer intern program. Thanks to new funding from the National Science Foundation, we’re excited …
Tidings
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![Behind a diagram in white that reads "Joan M. Kelly Sea State Series" participants sitting on orange stools engage in our Sea State Series by listening to a GMRI expert who stands on a platform to the right of the image. The event took place in the LabVenture space, and the big brown, blue, and black map with the Gulf of Maine sits in the background.]()
An Update for Sea State
Last summer, we relaunched Sea State, our series featuring expert speakers on topics central to the Gulf of Maine ecosystem and economy.
Announcements
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![Three fishermen in orange waders stand on a white boat with a line of large blue bins aboard as they drift on gray waters between rows of black buoys.]()
Advancing Aquaculture: Our Role in an Emerging Industry
In recent years, GMRI has begun a new aquaculture program, focused on growing this emerging industry in the Gulf of Maine. Below, President & CEO …
Perspectives
Hands-On Science Reaches 100,000 Students
Our Education team has achieved an extraordinary milestone for science literacy in Maine. After a decade of welcoming 5th and 6th graders into our lab, …
Tidings
Understanding Bluefin Tuna
Bluefin tuna in the Gulf of Maine are a critically important species, both biologically and commercially.
Perspectives
New LabVenture on the Horizon
On a chilly fall morning in 2015, CEO and President Don Perkins took to a press conference podium to announce the largest grant in our …
Announcements
Reaching Resilience: Climate Services for Gulf of Maine Communities
What resilience looks like in Portland might be different than what it looks like in Tremont, but our Climate Center team provides cities and towns …
Perspectives
Preparing for Sea Level Rise
The impacts of climate change are becoming increasingly visible in our state and across the nation. You've probably noticed more frequent news coverage of intense …
Perspectives
New Study: Warming, Conservation, and Lobsters
A 2018 study, led by scientists at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute and colleagues at the University of Maine and NOAA, demonstrates how conservation …
Announcements
Local Seafood and the Supply Chain
We need to level the playing field in the massive global seafood marketplace. Many people care about maintaining working waterfronts in this region long into …
The Sounding Line
New: Research Experience for Undergrads
For over a decade, college students have participated in our robust summer intern program. Thanks to new funding from the National Science Foundation, we’re excited …
Tidings
An Update for Sea State
Last summer, we relaunched Sea State, our series featuring expert speakers on topics central to the Gulf of Maine ecosystem and economy.
Announcements
Advancing Aquaculture: Our Role in an Emerging Industry
In recent years, GMRI has begun a new aquaculture program, focused on growing this emerging industry in the Gulf of Maine. Below, President & CEO …
Perspectives