Darling Marine Center

10/30/2025

Continuing a seasonal tradition, the UMaine Dive Club did some underwater pumpkin carving! This was followed by a night dive.

There are several underwater opportunities at the Darling Marine Center (and in Orono!) offered throughout the year. For more information, visit their website at umaine.edu/scientificdiving/ and be sure to follow them on social media!

Photos courtesy of Colby Johns and Elisabeth Maxwell.

09/08/2025

The Darling Marine Center has a skiff, as well as a number of trailers, up for auction!

Sealed bids only, each item bids separately:
2000 EZ-Loader boat trailer (will fit a 16' boat on bunks)
2004 Load Rite boat trailer (will fit a 16' boat on bunks)
2004 16' Lund skiff with a 2004 hp Johnson 2 stroke outboard and a 2023 Load Rite trailer with rollers.

Email the DMC boat captain at [email protected] for a bid form. The DMC reserves the right to reject bids. Send bids to:

Attn. Darling Marine Center Surplus Auction
193 Clarks Cove Rd
Walpole, ME 04573
Postmark by 9/22/2025
Bids opening 9/26/2025 at 1PM

08/15/2025

Today is the last day at the DMC for our Residential Life & Outreach Coordinator, Sam Annable. Sam will be teaching middle school Health & PE this coming school year!

Join us in thanking Sam for the contributions he's made to this community, which included a massive expansion of K-12 Outreach programming with local schools at the Center. We wish you the best of luck this year, and we know you'll make a great teacher!

07/25/2025

07/25/2025

Upcoming seminar: Wednesday, July 30th at 4:30 p.m. in Brooke Hall featuring Dr. Ian Bricknell, with his talk titled "Scratching My Research Itch: Sea Lice and Their Importance to Fish Farming, Conservation, Aquaculture, and Wild Fish"

Visit dmc.umaine.edu for more information and to RSVP!

Artwork by Hattie Stiles

07/17/2025

We packed the house at yesterday's Information Exchange on Land-Sea Connections! Head on over to and click on the "DMC Land-Sea" highlight for details on the speakers and festivities.

Thanks to for joining us at the Darlin' Marine Center and to for supplying the oysters!

07/17/2025

For eight years, Chris Cash captained a lobsterboat off Monhegan Island, where she and her family lived full-time.

07/11/2025

Registration closes after this weekend for Wednesday's Information Exchange on Land-Sea Connections in Maine! We have a full day of outstanding speakers, discussion sessions, poster presentations, and finally a reception with live music from Darlin' Corey!

Visit dmc.umaine.edu and click the link to learn more and register.

We hope to see you there!

07/03/2025

The summer session of SMS324: Intro to Research Diving started off with an intensive dive week based out of the DMC, where students completed checkout dives and all required skills for earning their Advanced Open Water certification. The week ended on a high note with spectacular conditions at Rachel Carson Salt Pond Preserve in New Harbor. On Friday, the dive team completed a Deep Dive and conducted underwater species observations. The class will continue through the summer with weekly sessions where divers will learn Rescue Diver skills, complete CPR/FA training, and continue to develop scientific diving capabilities.

Content credit: Lis Maxwell
University Of Maine, Scientific Diving Program

06/30/2025

THIS WEDNESDAY (7/2) the DMC will host the first Summer Seminar featuring Dr. Jon Woodruff with his talk titled "Maine's Mudflats and Marshes: Coupled Landscapes, Shifting Sediments, and Changing Tides" at 4:30 p.m. in Brooke Hall.

Go to dmc.umaine.edu for details and registration. Seminars are free & open to the public.

We hope to see you there!
Photo credit: Dr. Jon Woodruff