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Maine businesses and educational institutions are getting behind the latest attempt to reform federal immigration law.
The Maine Compact on Immigration has been signed by 70 groups, including the Maine State Chamber of Commerce, the University of New England and the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Science. At a virtual press conference, Bigelow President Dr. Deborah Bronk said Maine science institutions need the input of people from far away.
“They see the world differently than we do. That difference is power. So, if you want to solve a problem, you need to bring as many different minds together to tackle it. And this is diversity, not as a moral issue, but as a critically important strategic issue,” she said.
Spotted salamander egg masses. (Photo by John Burns)
Dr. John Burns of Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences will lead an online presentation called “From Roommates to Intimate Partners,” about the symbiotic relationship between algae and spotted salamander eggs and larva, on Tuesday, March 9 at noon, hosted by Merryspring Nature Center.
Many Mainers are familiar with the Big Night that comes near the beginning of each spring, when yellow spotted salamanders migrate en masse from their underground hideouts to their spring breeding pools. In vernal pools they mate and lay their eggs, which swell to form a dense jelly mass holding around 100 embryos each. These eggs and embryos are colonized by a tiny green alga, which have adapted to one another to both benefit from this arrangement.
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A rare yellow lobster, named Banana, has been caught off the coast of Maine
A rare yellow lobster has been caught off the coast of Maine and has been lovingly named Banana.
The University of New England (UNE) said in a news release that Banana was caught by lobsterman Marley Babb and donated to the university on Wednesday. The yellow color comes from a pigment in the lobster’s shell and the odds of catching one are about one in 30 million, according to the Lobster Institute at the University of Maine.
Babb contacted the Maine Department of Marine Research (DMR) after his once-in-a-lifetime catch to see if they would be interested in housing the lobster.