Mary-Kate Beard-Tisdale, a University of Maine faculty member and Co-Principal Investigator on the Maine-eDNA program, has been working hard with her Graduate Research Assistant, Melissa Kimble, in order to create a tool essential to collecting the program’s data. The tool comes in the form of a cross-platform application known as Survey123. “The main purpose of […]
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by Jane Horovitz, Maine EPSCoR Student Writer Sydney Greenlee, who is originally from Chantilly, Virginia, knew she wanted to be a marine biologist since the age of two, but she never really saw herself as a molecular ecologist. That is, until she did a REU (research undergraduate experience) with Pete Countway at Bigelow Laboratory for […]
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Learn about some of the newest and most impactful NSF EPSCoR-funded research and outreach taking place in the state of Maine. Photos featured in this newsletter were taken prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Featured Articles include: Maine’s Acadian Forest: The potential frontline of climate change in the age of vulnerability and big data […]
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by Liz Theriault, Maine EPSCoR Student Writer MAINE EPSCOR’S NEWEST TRACK-1 GRANT, titled Molecule to Ecosystem: Environmental DNA as a Nexus for Coastal Ecosystem Sustainability for Maine (Maine-eDNA), is bringing environmental DNA research to the Pine Tree State, and positioning Maine as a national leader for understanding eDNA. As a part of the program’s funding, […]
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by Liz Theriault, Maine EPSCoR Student Writer WHAT DO YOU SEE WHEN YOU PICTURE A TIME MACHINE? Maybe it’s the car from the popular 1980s film Back to the Future. Or perhaps you picture a metal box decorated with flashing lights and mysterious levers. But for Michael Kinnison, he pictures environmental DNA (eDNA). Kinnison is […]
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by Liz Theriault, Maine EPSCoR Student Writer With the new EPSCoR RII Track-1 Grant, Molecule to Ecosystem: Environmental DNA as a Nexus of Convergent Research for Maine’s Coastal Ecosystems (Maine-eDNA), comes new faculty members and principle investigators to lead interdisciplinary groups of researchers. For Maine-eDNA, Dr. Doug Rasher has taken on the role of Project […]
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by Liz Theriault, Maine EPSCoR Student Writer WHAT MAKES UP THE AIR WE BREATHE? The first answer that comes to mind may be, rather obviously, oxygen. Yet oxygen isn’t the only molecule surrounding us in our atmosphere, and it isn’t even the most abundant. In fact, air is made of 78% nitrogen. For researchers like […]
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by Liz Theriault, Maine EPSCoR Student Writer Dr. Andrew Goupee came to the University of Maine for his undergraduate career in the fall of 1999, and due to the various academic and professional opportunities UMaine presented, remained to complete the entirety of his academic career. Currently, Dr. Goupee teaches Strength of Materials; Dynamics; Mechanical Vibrations; […]
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By Stefania Irene Marthakis IN THE NORTHERN REGION OF MAINE LIES THE SOUTHERN EXTENT OF BOREAL FORESTS, which are slower growing because of longer winters. Picture softwood or conifer trees (e.g., spruce, fir). As you head south, a more temperate climate is found with faster growing hardwoods like maple, oak, and birch. These two types […]
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Jane Horovitz, EPSCoR Student Writer Rene Francolini didn’t even know the field of computational biology existed until her high school computer science teacher suggested that she combine her knack for logic and puzzles with her love for ecology and marine biology. Francolini did just that, completing a degree in biology with a focus in computational […]
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