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The Downeast Institute is seeking to hire a Postdoctoral Associate in Marine Carbonate Chemistry to work out of our facility in Beals for a 24-month period beginning in June 2019. The Downeast [...]

BEALS — Bangor Savings Bank recently awarded a $5,000 grant to the Downeast Institute’s education program. The funding will support DEI’s educational iniatives such as Marine Science Days, which [...]

BEALS — Camden National Bank recently announced that they are donating $5,000 over the next two years to the Downeast Institute’s (DEI) Education Center. The Education Center is the home to DEI’s [...]

Beals, ME—The Maine Community Foundation recently named the Downeast Institute (DEI) the recipient of a $10,000 grant through its Downeast Innovation Fund. The award recognizes and supports DEI’s [...]

  November 7, 2018 by Stephen Rappaport on News, Uncategorized, Waterfront  Source: https://www.mdislander.com/uncategorized/weather-not-overfishing-to-blame-for-clam-decline BEALS — For years, [...]

By Brianna Bires  | Posted: Sun 3:07 PM, Aug 12, 2018  |  Updated: Mon 12:02 AM, Aug 13, 2018 [...]

 The expansion of the hatchery facility nearly doubles the space available to produce clams, quahogs, oysters, lobsters, and mussels for fisheries enhancement, research, and development. Author: [...]

June 28, 2018 by Stephen Rappaport on Environment, News, Waterfront Source: https://www.ellsworthamerican.com/maine-news/waterfront/downeast-institute-nears-completion-of-6-6-million-expansion/ [...]

Director of Research Dr. Brian Beal and Associate Director Sara Randall presented the results of DEI’s extensive green crab trapping, crab growth rates, along with recently published studies [...]

By Bill Trotter, BDN Staff • May 17, 2018 6:00 am Updated: May 17, 2018 6:15 pm The future of Maine’s softshell clam industry may depend on farming them rather than harvesting the shellfish in [...]