Media Coverage

England’s The Guardian newspaper recently featured Downeast Institute’s discovery of the cause of the decline of soft-shell clam populations and our work through the Clam Recruitment [...]

The August 2022 edition of the The Working Waterfront published an article by Sarah Craighead Dedmon featuring the work Downeast Institute is doing to sustain clam harvests in the face of climate [...]

National Sea Grant announced that Downeast Institute’s collaborative research to find reliable ways to produce Atlantic sea scallops in the hatchery to sustain scallop production has been [...]

The Bangor Daily News covered the 2022 SEA Fellows Symposium that was held at Downeast Institute on August 9 in the following piece published on August 23, 2022: Diving into student research at [...]

Hannah Greene served in the town of Beals as Downeast Institute’s Island Institute Fellow from 2020-2022. She reflects on her time at Downeast Institute in this piece published in The [...]

On June 27, Maine’s Department of Education recently announced the Maine Outdoor Learning Initiative to provide Maine students hands on, outdoor coastal learning experiences this summer. [...]

On May 16, 2022, The Bangor Daily News featured a story about Downeast Institute (DEI) being awarded a 2-year National Marine Fisheries Service Saltonstall Kennedy grant to study clam [...]

The Life Sciences & Technology Hub of Excellence in Eastern Maine will create connections among R&D, education, entrepreneurship and investment, provide networking and learning opportunities, and [...]

On February 4, Bangor Daily News featured a story about DEI's recent study investigating repurposing vacant lobster pounds for the purposes of shellfish aquaculture in order to create economic [...]

On Dec. 22, 2021, Island Institute posted a blog entitled, “A Few of Our Favorite Things: Empowering Youth through STEM” highlighting the work of Downeast Institute. Read it here: [...]