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2025

• U.S. National Science Foundation: NSF selects 15 finalists to advance to the next round of its second Regional Innovation Engines competition
  15 finalists are advancing to the next stage of the program’s second competition. The finalist teams are led by a range of organizations, including universities, nonprofits and private industry from across the United States.
• PMEL: Coastal Weather Buoy Enhancement
  A research-enhanced weather buoy was deployed at 40.50°N 69.25°W for an expected observing period of one year.
• The Westerly Sun: Webcam monitors shoreline change, beach usage in Westerly
  A webcam has been installed to observe shoreline change and beach usage in Westerly.
• WMTW: Buoys in the Gulf of Maine, the floating science labs that provide an inside look into our waters
  Bobbing quietly on the waves, these high-tech buoys are the unsung heroes of Maine’s coast-gathering vital data every second to keep mariners safe in and along the water, to tracking changes within the Gulf of Maine.
• Bar Harbor Story: Proposed Noaa Budget Cuts Could Affect Local Mariners
  Mariners depend on weather data gathering and forecasting apps to plan their day, whether it be where to fish, where to take the tourists, how best to approach a harbor, or if they should just not go out on any given day, every day, because it is too dangerous.
• Mainebiz: Lobstermen say modern data collection essential to support resource
  More than 30 lobstermen told fisheries observers that modern data collection technology is needed to monitor the lobster resource and habitat, along with trends that might be affecting both.
• Saco Bay News: Webcam installation in Saco enhances coastal monitoring
  Scientists and interested community members can keep an eye on Saco’s coastline from their computer screen with the recent installation of two new webcams in Camp Ellis and Ferry Beach.

• “Modeling the advective supply of Calanus finmarchicus to Stellwagen Bank as an indicator of sand lance foraging habitat, and the climate vulnerability of a National Marine Sanctuary,” led by Cameron R. S. Thompson, Pelagic Ecologist at NERACOOS.
• “Zooplankton monitoring at fixed station time series records responses of the foundation species, Calanus finmarchicus, to seasonal and multiannual drivers in the western Gulf of Maine,” led by Jeffrey A. Runge of University of Maine and co-authored by Cameron R. S. Thompson, Pelagic Ecologist and Jackie Motyka, Strategy Director, at NERACOOS.