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The Downeast Institute’s Sara Randall presented the results of DEI’s field research into the effects of sediment buffering and predator exclusion on soft-shell clams during the Ocean [...]

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 [...]

In 2018, DEI set up a comparative field experiment at two coves in Cutler and Machiasport to investigate how soft-shell clams react to acidic seawater and sediments and also assess the importance [...]

In 2012, clammers from the Maine Clammers Association sounded the alarm about the dramatic increase in invasive green crab populations in Casco Bay and the corresponding decrease in soft-shell [...]