Researchers to Study Biodiversity of Falkland Islands, WVII Reports
WVII (Channel 7) reported three University of Maine researchers will travel to the Falkland Islands to learn more about the region’s biodiversity and what can be done to preserve it. Jacquelyn Gill, an assistant professor of paleoecology and plant ecology, will travel with two graduate students — Kit Hamley and Dulcinea Groff. “We are very interested in how vulnerable the species and the biodiversity on these islands are to future climate change,” Gill said. To help fund the $20,000 trip, Hamley and Groff have created and launched a crowdfunding campaign through Experiment.com. Phys.org also carried a report about the trip.