Like many crops across the world, wild blueberries face several threats posed by climate change, including rising temperatures. Rafa Tasnim from Dhaka, Bangladesh, is trying to pinpoint new ways growers can protect one of Maine’s most iconic crops by using resources from the state’s backyard. Since joining the University of Maine in 2019, Tasnim, a […]
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Twenty-seven undergraduate and recent post-baccalaureate students from the University of Maine, University of Maine at Machias, University of Southern Maine, College of the Atlantic and 12 other institutions across the state and nation will share the results of their summer marine research at the 2022 SEA (Science for Economic Impact and Application) Fellows Symposium on […]
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University of Maine and University of New Hampshire researchers will investigate how the diversity and evolution of feeding habits among Arctic charr populations in Maine affect their resilience or vulnerability to climate change. The National Science Foundation’s Organismal Responses to Climate Change Program awarded almost $1.5 million for the study, spearheaded by Nathan Furey, an […]
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Kristina Cammen, assistant professor at the School of Marine Sciences, was interviewed by ABC News about the threat to fish stocks posed by the rebound in gray seal populations. Fishing groups contend the seals could threaten cod stocks that regulators are struggling to rebuild after decades of overfishing. “Gray seals are certainly this case where […]
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Emma Erwin, graduate research assistant at the Climate Change Institute, spoke to KTNA (88.9FM in Talkeetna, Alaska) about her research studying ice core samples in Denali to learn more about climate change through the stratigraphy of the ice. “It provides a lot of really exciting opportunity to take information from what’s happening right now with […]
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The Mount Desert Islander reported that the Naturalist’s Notebook in Seal Harbor is hosting Mount Desert Island Historical Society and its new traveling exhibit, “We Change With Them,” from 2–4 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 4, for a drop-in program called “Naturalist’s Nightmares: Browntail Moths and Deer Ticks.” Angela Mech, assistant professor of forest entomology, and Allison […]
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The Bangor Daily News wrote a feature about Steve Johnson, retired crops specialist with University of Maine Cooperative Extension in Presque Isle who ensured the continued success of potato farming around the world and made potatoes possible as a staple food even in poorer countries. He has shared his expertise throughout Maine and in such […]
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The Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment awarded David Townsend, a University of Maine professor of oceanography, one of its 2022 Visionary Awards. The awards recognize individuals, businesses and organizations from each state and province bordering the Gulf of Maine for their innovation, creativity and commitment to protecting the marine environment. The organization […]
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $249,851 grant to Andrei Kurbatov, associate professor at the Climate Change Institute and the School of Earth and Climate Sciences at the University of Maine, for developing new hyperspectral imaging techniques for analyzing ice cores. UMaine is part of an interdisciplinary collaborative proposal led by University of […]
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Editor’s note: Story updated Aug. 1. A more than 150-year-old American elm tree at the University of Maine that was saved by pioneering research on Dutch elm disease and that inspired the establishment of a campus natural heritage fund has succumbed to rot in its trunk and will be removed from the Hitchner Hall landscape […]
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