‘Mammoths in Maine’ focus of Phi Beta Kappa talk

UMaine Alert

Posted: April 19, 2024 - 1:32 PM

At approximately 9:24 a.m. on Friday, April 19, a University of Maine graduate student was struck by a university vehicle on Long Road at the University of Maine campus in Orono. The student reports that they are at a local hospital with minor injuries.

Emergency services, including the Orono Fire Department, University Volunteer Ambulance Corps, University of Maine Police Department, Orono Police Department and Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office responded to the scene.

The university vehicle involved in the incident was a Chevrolet Express van. It was being operated by a university employee.

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The scene has been cleared and Long Road is now accessible. An investigation is being conducted by the University of Maine Police Department with assistance from the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office Crash Reconstruction Unit. Any witnesses to the incident are encouraged to contact Lt. Noel Santiago at noel.santiago@maine.edu.

March 21, 2017 Climate Change, Signature and Emerging Areas

University of Maine Professor Emeritus Hal Borns and Gary Hoyle, artist and former curator at the Maine State Museum, will present “Mammoths in Maine,” at 2 p.m. Tuesday, March 28 in the Bodwell Lounge of the Hudson Museum.

Borns and Hoyle will speak about the history of the ancient animal in the state.

A tusk was unearthed during the excavation of a farm pond in North Scarborough in 1959 and was rediscovered during a survey of specimens for an ice age exhibit at the Maine State Museum. In 1990, bulk radiocarbon dating confirmed the tusk was ancient. During a 1992–1993 survey at the Scarborough site, the discovery of mammoth remains led to a multi-authored paper published in 2004. The Maine mammoth is the first mammoth found east of the Hudson River Valley.

The event is part of the Phi Beta Kappa Spring 2017 series of talks. It is free and open to the public.

Borns served as professor of glacial and ice age geology for 50 years at UMaine and was the founding director of the Climate Change Institute. In addition to working at the museum for almost three decades, Hoyle has been an artist in residence at the Climate Change Institute and Acadia National Park.