Several news organizations, including Channel 5 (WABI), Channel 2 (WLBZ) and the Bangor Daily News, reported Thursday on a bomb threat hoax emailed to an Aubert Hall employee. Students and staff were evacuated while public safety officials searched the building before allowing Aubert Hall to be reoccupied. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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Francis Avery, UMaine forest technician and operator of the university’s sugar house off College Avenue Extension, was interviewed Thursday for a Channel 2 (WLBZ) news report on how the maple syrup “sugaring” season is progressing. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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Coral communities are frequently associated with warm, shallow tropical waters. Yet corals survive and thrive in both deep and cold waters of regions such as the Gulf of Maine, the Arctic and the Antarctic. Just like tropical corals, cold-water corals play an important role in creating habitats that support thousands of species of ocean creatures.
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WNYC, a New York City radio station, listed the 18th century ship excavated by the World Trade Center site by UMaine marine archaeologist Warren Riess in a feature called “The Story of New York in 10 Objects.” Riess said New York City was developed with trading vessels such as the one he unearthed. Contact: Jessica […]
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A Bangor Daily News report on drug running along the I-95 corridor noted studies of drug-related mortality patterns in Maine done by Marcella Sorg, a UMaine forensic anthropologist who is also the state’s anthropologist and works in the state medical examiner’s office. Sorg told the BDN Friday that oxycodone, methadone and benzodiazepines are the primary […]
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In a Portland Press Herald report on improvements to Portland’s deep-water berth, a Portland city official cited a 2010 UMaine economic impact study about the importance of the cruise ship industry to Portland and the rest of the state. The study found that in 2008, more than 47,000 passengers from 31 cruise ships pumped $5.8 […]
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The website Clean Technica has a story about a commercial tidal power generator being installed soon in Cobscook Bay. The story noted that UMaine School of Marine Sciences environmental monitoring and fish studies will be conducted alongside the generator. Contact: Jessica Bloch, (207) 581-3777
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Applications are now being accepted for the University of Maine’s Dive In 2012, a program for college-bound high school students interested in pursuing a career in the marine sciences.
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UMaine’s Mike Kinnison, an associate professor of evolutionary applications, was interviewed for a segment of the web series “Down to Earth” in a YouTube video about the new movie, “Salmon Fishing in Yemen.” Kinnison said the idea of salmon fishing in Yemen is far-fetched because Yemen has no year-round flowing rivers. Kinnison also discussed efforts […]
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A 2010 report by Mary Davis, a UMaine adjunct professor of economics, was noted in a Kennebec Journal story linking the rise in toxins in Maine’s air with an increase in the productivity of Maine’s pulp mills. The 2010 Economic Assessment of Children’s Health and the Environment in Maine, a report published in the Maine […]
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