BDN shares story about Schild’s early investigator award from NASA

The Bangor Daily News shared a University of Maine news release highlighting a recent NASA New Investigator Program (NIP) award to Kristin Schild, a glaciologist and assistant research professor in UMaine’s School of Earth and Climate Sciences. Schild, the first Maine-based researcher to receive a NASA NIP award since 2003, will use the nearly $380,000 award to advance development of a model to predict the rate of iceberg melting and discharging freshwater into the ocean.