Portland TV station WMTW has a story about a UMaine study that found golf has a major impact on the state’s economy. UMaine economists James McConnon and Todd Gabe discovered Maine’s golf industry generated almost $270 million for the state in 2011, including tourism-related spending by out-of-state golfers. Contact: Jessica Bloch, (207) 581-3777
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension experts throughout Maine are available to discuss April gardening tips, in addition to information on fiddleheads – from the harvest to cleaning, proper cooking and preserving.
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Just in time for Earth Day, anyone in the U.S. can see important environmental factors easily and instantly Orono, Maine, April 12, 2012 – With 10Green, a new, interactive web tool (10Green.org) you can get a comprehensive assessment of the health of your local environment with just a few keystrokes. Just enter your zip code […]
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California’s Sacramento Bee newspaper carried a news release about the new “10Green” interactive web tool designed by the University of Maine Climate Change Institute to provide 10 air quality measures of pollutants such as carbon monoxide, large and small particulates, ozone, sulfur dioxide and heavy metals. Institute Director Paul Mayewski said in an interview that […]
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UMaine School of Economics assistant professor Sharon Wagner spoke with Channel 7 (WVII) Monday for a 6 p.m. news report about some of the reasons for recent spikes in gasoline prices. The single most influential factor in gasoline prices is the cost of crude oil, she says, which is tied to supply and demand and […]
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In a Bangor Daily News letter to the editor, UMaine social work graduate student Lucy Barnhart wrote about proposed budget cuts to to the prescription drug and health care assistance for people over 65 and people with disabilities. Barnhart wrote that this population deserves to continue to receive consistent preventative health care, which is a […]
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A Portland Press Herald report on the outlook for ticks this spring included a reference to UMaine Climate Change Institute research. Although reported cases of Lyme disease in Aroostook County are low, the article said, the Maine Medical Center’s Vector-borne Disease Laboratory in South Portland has used a 2011 model by the Climate Change Institute […]
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The University of Maine System Board of Trustees has approved promotion and/or tenure for 29 University of Maine faculty members. The professors, who represent the broad spectrum of UMaine academic programs, were nominated by University of Maine President Paul Ferguson after an extensive process reviewing their work in teaching, research and community service.
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The University of Maine will host on Thursday, April 12 the annual meeting of the Northeast Regional Migration Monitoring Network, a group of researchers including UMaine biologist Rebecca Holberton, who study the Gulf of Maine’s migrating birds, many of whom face threats from climate change, on- and off-shore wind energy projects and habitat loss.
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UMaine’s red tide research was noted in a story on Science Daily about the forecast for a moderate New England red tide in spring and summer 2012. UMaine is part of a group of NOAA-funded organizations working in the Gulf of Maine to study the toxic algae that causes red tide blooms. Contact: Jessica Bloch, […]
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