COPRI UMaine

10/27/2021

Very exciting day for COPRI UMaine! A few members of our chapter were able to tour Eastport, Maine, home of the deepest natural seaport in the continental US and the Western Passage. We were walked through the 2014 failure and reconstruction of the Eastport breakwater (2), followed by a tour of the bay including the Cooke Aquaculture marine salmon farm (4), commercial shipping pier (5), and the Western Passage (6&7), aboard an charter boat. The Western Passage is located between Eastport and Canada and home to extreme tides, turbulence, and whirlpools! Huge thank you to Chris Bartlett of and Chris Garder of Eastport Port Authority! Scroll to the end to see how Wes spent his ride home 😴

08/26/2021

Last week MS students Liam Hanley, Sam Rickerich, Matt Fischer, and Reilley Hicks prepared to assist Liz Younce with her field work for her research. Robbie Downs, boat captain from the Darling Marine Center, gave a boat safety training and showed them how to operate the Center’s research skiffs. Here are a few shots from the training!

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The way fresh and seawater mix in an estuary influences its water circulation, physics and quality, which affect ecosystems and aquaculture. Scientists understand the dynamics of the process in estuaries with simple topographies, but Lauren Ross seeks to better understand them in more complex ones,....

10/26/2020

University of Maine researchers will develop a tool for predicting how biotoxins released by algal blooms that can cause public health issues travel through estuarine and coastal waters. The focus of the UMaine-led effort pertains to marine harmful algal blooms of the diatom Pseudo-nitzschia that ca...

10/15/2020

Dr. Kim Huguenard’s Coastal Engineering class recently did a beach scavenger hunt on Sand and Seawall Beaches on MDI. They identified nearshore morphological features, examined cross shore variations in sediment, and identified wave characteristics!

10/08/2020

M.S. students Reilley Hicks and Matthew Fisher recently deployed buoys off the coast of Castine to measure wave dynamics in the region. They were accompanied by Dr. Lauren Ross and Dr. Neil Fisher