WFVX (FOX 22/ABC 7 in Bangor) interviewed University of Maine assistant professor of economics Kelsi Hobbs on how to avoid lies in statistics from studies and surveys. “There are a few different things that we can focus on, one is a sample, the second is the size of the sample and the third is how […]
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Acadia National Park’s podcast, “Sea to Trees,” featured University of Maine graduate student Marisa Monroe to talk about her research in wildlife, fisheries and conservation biology. The interview follows her for a night in the field.
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Popular Science, Earth.com, IFL Science, Daily Galaxy and Live Science highlighted a study led by Jasmine Saros, associate director of the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, which found that lakes in West Greenland began emitting carbon and decreased in water quality following record heat and precipitation. Saros and a team of researchers concluded that the […]
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Rachel Fowler, biology laboratory coordinator at the University of Maine, wrote a story featured in Park Science magazine on a study in which she led that aimed to understand the vulnerability of lakes in Acadia National Park to harmful algal blooms. The study showed that two lakes in Acadia that supply public drinking water were […]
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West Greenland is home to tens of thousands of blue lakes that provide residents drinking water and sequester carbon from the atmosphere. Yet after two months of record heat and precipitation in fall 2022, an estimated 7,500 lakes turned brown, began emitting carbon and decreased in water quality, according to a new study. Led by […]
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The Bangor Daily News and News Center Maine highlighted a research project from the University of Maine that aims to understand how invasive forest plants impact tick populations. Researchers secured a $1.8 million grant from the National Science Foundation to test if controlling unwelcome forest plants also reduces densities of ticks, and how landowners can […]
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The Portland Press Herald interviewed Sean Birkel, Maine state climatologist and assistant professor at the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, on the likelihood of a large fire developing in Maine. Birkel said the Northeast region of the country is more humid than the western part, but drought conditions in recent years have increased the […]
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WFVX (FOX 22/ABC 7 in Bangor) interviewed Pauline Kamath, associate professor of animal disease/diagnostics at the University of Maine School of Food and Agriculture, on the H5N1 virus, known as the bird flu, and how people can protect themselves and their pets from it. Kamath said the bird flu is a respiratory illness that circulates […]
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The Bangor Daily News and WABI (CBS 5 in Bangor) interviewed Damian Brady, professor of marine sciences at the University of Maine, on the threats climate change presents to the aquaculture industry. Brady said challenges to the industry extend beyond the Gulf of Maine’s warming waters — which he explained also presents new opportunities — […]
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Ask anyone who frequents the forests of New England and they will likely speak of unwelcome companions — ticks. Blacklegged ticks are expanding their range and rising in numbers, infecting people with pathogens that cause conditions like Lyme disease and babesiosis. Climate change is frequently blamed, but researchers have noticed another man-made problem may be […]
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