With Brunswick’s sidewalks under construction, there has been a great deal of attention around our Maine Street. The new sidewalks are coming along and are certain to improve the pedestrian experience downtown. But the fact that Maine Street is so wide remains, often making downtown feel out of scale for people and more suited to […]
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Intertidal: Taking a closer look
It seems somehow ironic that I wrote last week about discovering a seaweed species that I happily found out was not invasive, but was merely unfamiliar to me, as I am now writing about a seaweed species that is invasive. When a friend who was visiting pulled up a glistening sample of dead man’s fingers, […]
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Midcoast tuna tournaments pitch in with science
Atlantic bluefin tuna populations are on the rebound, or so local scientists suggest.
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Intertidal: Always more to see in water and along the shore
It’s always nice when you find out that something unusual is not an invasive species. With so many changes afoot in the Gulf of Maine, there have been some strange visitors in the water and along the shore. Blue crabs that typically frequent the Chesapeake area and black sea bass that are more common in […]
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Intertidal: A bridge to our coastal resources
There are too many things to do in Maine this summer. That’s the beauty of the warm, if brief, stretch of months we are in. While many people, tourists and locals alike, head to the beaches or maybe out on the water to visit the islands, there are also some unique opportunities along the coast […]
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Launch of Maine research satellite delayed once again
Built by Maine college students, MESAT-1 will collect climate data for Maine students studying urban heat islands, phytoplankton and harmful algae blooms.
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Maine’s first satellite is ready for orbit, but launch is delayed
MESAT-1, one of 8 nano-satellites set to hitch a ride aboard Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket, will collect climate data for experiments designed by Falmouth, Fryeburg and Saco students.
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Intertidal: Dissecting the bounty of the sea
One of my favorite fishy memories is not of eating fish or catching fish but dissecting fish. It was with a group of students in San Diego and the fish we were dissecting were mackerel — a particularly perfect species for learning about some of the incredible adaptations of fish. After a brief explanation of […]
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Midcoast residents gather in the darkness to protect amphibians
New, emerging research seeks to prove why amphibians need protection in the summer months, too.
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Deaf baby hears for the first time after ‘groundbreaking’ gene therapy trial
Opal Sandy, an 18-month-old from England, is the youngest child to come close to ‘normal hearing levels’ in a gene therapy trial to aid her genetic deafness.