News from DEI

Downeast Institute welcomed our inaugural pair of Downeast Institute (DEI) Fellows in May. The Fellowship allows PhD student Raymond Czaja from Stony Brook University and graduate student [...]

Summer camp is BACK this year and will take place the first week of August! Monday-Wednesday (8/1-8/3) sessions will be for campers going into grade 5 and above and will run from 9am-3pm. Campers [...]

Downeast Institute revealed a new strategic plan that will guide the organization forward through 2025. Read it here.

A group of nonprofit organizations working collaboratively to promote a Life Sciences & Technology Hub of Excellence in Eastern Maine has received a $10,000 grant from the Maine Community [...]

— Downeast Institute in Beals has received a $24,000 gift from Machias Savings Bank to support its efforts to commercialize shellfish hatchery methods it has developed. The Institute’s Executive [...]

Downeast Institute seeks a Facility Assistant We have an immediate opening for an individual who enjoys taking pride in the appearance of a facility under their care, and will assume [...]

Sunrise Senior College at the University of Maine at Machias is offering a FREE class about the future of shellfish in the gulf of Maine with Dr. Brian Beal on Wednesday, February 9. W2205- The [...]

On Dec. 10, 2021 Downeast Institute distributed our third Maine Shellfish Management E-Newsletter to clammers, shellfish committee members, Department of Marine Resources and municipal staff, and [...]

The Friends of Crumple Island Scholarship Fund helps Downeast Institute (DEI) defray the cost of paid summer internships for undergraduate students, particularly those enrolled in University of [...]

Comprehensive information about clam settlement across Maine’s mudflats in 2020 has been released in a Technical Report. Overall, researchers found lower than expected average juvenile clam [...]