Eos: Earth and Space Science News reported on a study led by Amanda Gavin, an ecology and environmental sciences graduate student at the University of Maine. The study investigated the effects of acid rain and climate change on freshwater lakes. The researchers analyzed a subset of high-elevation Maine lakes, which are more sensitive to environmental change […]
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Master’s student Elyse DeFranco was recently awarded a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS) from UMaine’s Canadian-American Center. She is spending the first weeks of summer in a French language immersion course at the Université Laval in Quebec City to prepare for her fieldwork for her Master’s thesis later this summer. She also received an […]
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Aly East, an EES undergraduate researcher, spent this past summer on the Schoodic Peninsula of Acadia National Park working on the Schoodic Ecosystem Services Project. This project seeks to estimate the changes in recreation, biodiversity, and carbon storage caused by new developments at Schoodic, and the project is led by EES faculty Kate Ruskin and […]
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From Colorado to Connecticut, EES undergraduates participated in engaging, relevant jobs and internships summer 2017. Here is a snapshot of what some of our students dug into this summer. Jamie Behan interned with the Waldo County Soil and Water Conservation District in Maine and worked on several projects including identifying and mapping invasive plants and […]
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EES Ph.D. student Zachary Wood was recently awarded the Janet Waldron Doctoral Research Fellowship by the University of Maine Graduate School. Zach has just finished his first year of graduate school at the University of Maine. Within his first few weeks in the program, Zach taught himself how to program in Matlab and built an […]
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The College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture is hosting the 2017 Graduate Student Research Awards Competition on March 3rd, in Room 57 of Stodder Hall. EES graduate students Brianne DuClos, Kisei Tanaka, Jack McLachlan will present their research, in addition to nine other grad students in the college. Please attend if you can! […]
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