Phys.org, Scienmag and Bioengineer.org noted that Hamish Grieg, associate professor of stream ecology at the University of Maine, co-authored a study showing that resident species can continue managing some important ecological processes despite the arrival of newcomers that are similar to them, but resident species’ role in ecosystem functioning changes when the newcomers are more […]
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USA Today interviewed Maine State Climatologist Sean Birkel for a fact checking article titled “April 1895 v. April 2023 temperature comparison does not disprove climate change.” According to Birkel, also assistant professor with a joint appointment at University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the UMaine Climate Change Institute, determining whether global warming has occurred by […]
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In a story about Wyman’s Blueberries importing and raising bees, the Bangor Daily News highlighted the University of Maine’s Wyman’s Wild Blueberry Research and Innovation Center in Old Town. In time, the research opportunities created by the center will improve predictions about how the berries respond to field conditions, varying precipitation levels and climate change, […]
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Maine Public interviewed Susanne Lee, faculty fellow at the University of Maine Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions, about what people can do to minimize food waste and the carbon emissions it generates. “It’s household food waste, that’s really our biggest problem,” Lee says. Connecticut Public, New England Public Media, New Hampshire Public […]
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Creating new, more accurate methods for quantifying the stress and flow rate experienced by deforming rocks at the boundaries of moving tectonic plates is the goal of a University of Maine study funded with a $392,372 National Science Foundation grant. Scott Johnson, a professor of structural geology, and Senthil Vel, a professor of mechanical engineering, […]
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News Center Maine featured potato variety testing at the University of Maine’s Agricultural Research and Development Farm in Presque Isle. The process starts at the UMaine campus in Orono, where potato plants are cross-pollinated in greenhouses, which results in thousands of true potato seeds. After that, researchers and students use those seeds to grow 50,000 […]
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The National Fisherman reported on a national survey about direct marketing practices among U.S. seafood harvesters, developed by the University of Maine, Agricultural Marketing Services of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and National Marine Fisheries Service.
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In an article about a record-breaking heat wave in the Pacific Northwest, Axios used data from the University of Maine Climate Reanalyzer to create a map of forecast temperature departures from average during Monday through Wednesday May 17 in degrees Fahrenheit. The Climate Reanalyzer was developed by Sean Birkel, Maine state climatologist and assistant professor […]
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New information is emerging on how climate change is impacting American lobster populations and their connections to other species in the marine food web in the earliest stages of their life cycle. New research conducted by two graduate students at the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center (DMC) has revealed more information about how these […]
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The Portland Press Herald interviewed Angela Mech, assistant professor of forest entomology at the University of Maine, about this year’s browntail moth outbreak. “We haven’t had this big of a browntail moth outbreak in 100 years. There are still so many questions we don’t know the answers to,” Mech said. The PPH noted that this […]
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