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The Lobster Bulletin, Fall 2008, Lobster Institute, University Of Maine

Lobster Bulletin

The Lobster Bulletin newsletter includes research updates, and information on lobsters and the lobster industry. The Lobster Institute at the University of Maine is dedicated to protecting and conserving the lobster resource, and enhancing lobstering as an industry and a way of life.

Headlines in the Fall 2008 Special Edition announcing the MTAF Challenge issue include:

• The MTAF Challenge
• Heannsler Family Helps to Meet MTAF Challenge
• Research Report: Gifts of Property: How they work and How They Can Benefit the Donor
• Basil & Harriet Heannsler Help the Lobster Institute Meet the MTAF Challenge With a Gift of Property

The Lobster Bulletin, Summer 2008, Lobster Institute, University Of Maine

Lobster Bulletin

The Lobster Bulletin newsletter includes research updates, and information on lobsters and the lobster industry. The Lobster Institute at the University of Maine is dedicated to protecting and conserving the lobster resource, and enhancing lobstering as an industry and a way of life.

Headlines in the Summer 2008 issue include:

• Lobstermen's Town Meeting Draws Comments from Australia
• The Lobster Institute's C.O.R.E. Initiative Receives NOAA Funding
• Lobster College at Kenniston Hill Inn B&B
• Research Report: Lobster Health Coalition
• Research Report: Determining the Health Risks of Lobster Bait to Marine Animals
• Research Report: Study to Investigate Lobster Stressors
• Pat and Herb Hodgkins …

Peet: Lower Worms Of The Meiofauna - Models For Early Metazoan Evolution, Seth Tyler

University of Maine Office of Research Administration: Grant Reports

Among the small invertebrates living between sand grains in the marine environment, are tiny, cryptic worms that many consider to be the most primitive of all bilaterally symmetrical animals (that is, all animals excluding the cnidarians and sponges). These worms include two small groups called acoel and catenulid turbellarians which are now classified in the phylum Platyhelminthes (flatworms) but that, according to some systematists, may not even be related to the more familiar flatworms such as planarians and polyclads. Another of these primitive worm groups is the Gnathostomulida, whose relationships to other phyla of invertebrates have been similarly controversial; by …

The Lobster Bulletin, Spring 2008, Lobster Institute, University Of Maine

Lobster Bulletin

The Lobster Bulletin newsletter includes research updates, and information on lobsters and the lobster industry. The Lobster Institute at the University of Maine is dedicated to protecting and conserving the lobster resource, and enhancing lobstering as an industry and a way of life.

Headlines in the Spring 2008 issue include:

• Lobster Institute Hosts 5^th Canadian/U.S. Lobstermen's Town Meeting
• The Business of Lobstering
• Research Report: Assessing Affects of the Lobster Culture on Coastal Tourism
• Even Lobsters Need Friends

Collaborative Research: What Limits Denitrification And Bacterial Growth In Lake Bonney, Taylor Valley, Antarctica?, Mark L. Wells, Charles Trick

University of Maine Office of Research Administration: Grant Reports

Denitrification is the main process by which fixed nitrogen is lost from ecosystems and the regulation of this process may directly affect primary production and carbon cycling over short and long time scales. Previous investigations of the role of bioactive metals in regulating denitrification in bacteria from permanently ice-covered Lake Bonney in the Taylor Valley of East Antarctica indicated that denitrifying bacteria can be negatively affected by metals such as copper, iron, cadmium, lead, chromium, nickel, silver and zinc; and that there is a distinct difference in denitrifying activity between the east and west lobes of the lake. Low iron …

The Lobster Bulletin, Winter 2008, Lobster Institute, University Of Maine

Lobster Bulletin

The Lobster Bulletin newsletter includes research updates, and information on lobsters and the lobster industry. The Lobster Institute at the University of Maine is dedicated to protecting and conserving the lobster resource, and enhancing lobstering as an industry and a way of life.

Headlines in the Winter 2008 issue include:

• Over $4 Million for Lobster Research in Canada
• Woodward Preserves a Piece of Lobster Industry History
• Town Meeting Celebrates 5^th Year
• 2007 Friends of the Lobster Institute
• Research Report: Lobster Enhancement Efforts Discussed
• Research Report: Coral Reef Crisis Could Signal Treat to Local Marine Life and Fisheries
• C.O.R.E. Campaign …