News from DEI

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 [...]

DEI’s research which pinpoints predation by predators such as the invasive green crab and milky ribbon worms as the cause of southern Maine’s clam decline has been published in the [...]

DEI’s work was the subject of many presentations at the 2018 Fishermen’s Forum in Rockport, March 1-3. On “Shellfish Focus Day”, March 1, DEI presented information in the [...]

The Gloria C. MacKenzie Foundation has awarded $60,000 to DEI to support, “Shellfish Industry Education for Maine Students & Teachers”.  Students and teachers from Maine schools work [...]

National Sea Grant recently announced that DEI was among the 32 projects to receive funding through it’s $9.3 million Integrated Projects to Increase Aquaculture Production and Addressing [...]

DEI was notified in late June that it will receive grant funds totaling $278,000 over the next two years to continue work initiated several years ago involving commercial-scale grow out of [...]

DEI has been conducting research in the Freeport area since 2013 to understand the causes of a declining soft-shell clam population in the northern region of Casco Bay.  Work by DEI staff – [...]

The Harold Alfond Foundation has made a $1.8 million “capstone” gift to support the expansion of the Downeast Institute for Applied Marine Research and Education in the Washington [...]

A two-year collaboration between DEI staff and Maine’s Department of Marine Resources (DMR) area biologists was published in the December 2016 issue of the Journal of Shellfish Research.  [...]

On Friday, January 20th, the Chancellor of the University of Maine System, Dr. James Page, announced at a public gathering and celebration at DEI that the University of Maine at Machias and the [...]