News from DEI

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 [...]

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 – [...]