Spring 2021
Health and safety update for university community members
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Message from President Joan Ferrini-Mundy:
Dear members of the UMaine and UMM communities,
Throughout this pandemic, so many members of our UMaine and UMM communities have been at work, nonstop, doing their jobs in addition to the required COVID-19 response measures to help ensure the well-being of our communities, on and off campus. They include the members of our Emergency Operations Center and its COVID-19 Response Team, working tirelessly, often around the clock to provide health and safety guidance in collaboration with Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and in accord with civil and University of Maine System protocols.
North American Local Catch Network Awarded $500,000 USDA Grant to Catalyze “Boat-to-Fork” Seafood Marketing in the United States
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Funding will create first nationwide accelerator to train and support seafood producers in marketing their catch directly to consumers
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This grant will help to ensure that these alternative business models remain sustainable long-term and seafood is recognized as an integral part of local and regional food systems ORONO, Maine (PRWEB) January 25, 2021 The Local Catch Network, based in the School of Marine Sciences at the University of Maine, has received a half-million dollar grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farmers Market Promotion Program (FMPP) to support better integration of seafood into local and regional food systems and fund the creation of ‘Scale Your Local Catch,’ the first nationwide training and technical as
The Cooperative Institute for the North Atlantic Region (CINAR) has awarded Joshua Stoll, assistant professor of marine policy in the School of Marine Sciences at the University of Maine, a two-year fellowship in quantitative fisheries and ecosystem science.
Funding from the fellowship will be used to support a post-doctoral researcher who will work with Stoll and collaborators Lisa Colburn and Michael Jepson, researchers at the National Marine Fisheries Service, to develop quantitative social and economic indicators for the American lobster fishery.
A novel component of the project is that Stoll and his colleagues will use datasets that are spatially and temporally sensitive to capture socioeconomic changes in near real-time. This research will ultimately help policy makers and the industry monitor the resilience of this important fishery to longstanding and emerging challenges.