ORONO, Maine – University of Maine geochemist Amanda Olsen is part of a national research team that is starting a database to help scientists understand the speed at which environmental reactions take place.
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The Portland Press Herald ran a story about UMaine economist George Criner’s statewide study of the effectiveness of recycling programs. Criner told the Press Herald there most municipalities in Maine offer recycling programs, but the question is whether people participate. Travis Blackmer, a senior economics major who is helping with the study, said his own […]
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A Lewiston Sun Journal report on winter ticks and Maine’s moose and deer population included a mention of UMaine participation in research into how the ticks may have affected moose. Lee Kantar, the state’s moose and deer biologist, said he has been working the last two winters with UMaine diagnostic lab technicians doing necropsies on […]
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Channel 2 (WLBZ) and Channel 7 (WVII) interviewed UMaine Ph.D. candidates Janice Duy and Amber Bratcher Monday for news reports about the research the students are doing with School of Marine Sciences research professor Laurie Connell on earlier detection of the toxic algae Alexandrium, commonly known as red tide, which can cause paralytic shellfish poisoning. […]
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Maine Public Broadcasting Network radio has a story about a study of Maine’s garbage being done by George Criner, a professor in UMaine’s School of Economics. Criner told MPBN the aim of the study is to document what is in the household waste stream of 17 Maine communities so that municipalities and state policy-makers can […]
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A fully functional table saw, a $45 flashlight, a bag of canned food, baby strollers, car seats, plastic toys, bowling balls and returnable bottles and cans are some of the things residents of Maine communities have thrown in the trash this past summer and fall.
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Several news outlets noted the news that UMaine has been awarded a grant to study early detection methods for red tide, a toxin found in some mudflat where shellfish are harvested and which can lead to a potentially fatal human illness. Portland’s WGME TV station covered the announcement, and the Boston Herald ran an Associated […]
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The Rockland-based Free Press newspaper carried a report on the Oct. 26 wind power forum held at the University of Maine, which provided a panel discussion of the topic by experts, including UMaine professor Gary Hunt of the School of Economics. Hunt has studied the cost of wind power generation and said wind energy is […]
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Multiple news outlets, from the Bangor Daily News to the website of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), reported on a $201,187 federal grant awarded by NOAA to scientists at the University of Maine School of Marine Sciences for a three-year project to investigate methods for early detection of toxic Alexandrium blooms, or red […]
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Karen Hutchins, a University of Maine Ph.D. candidate in Communication and Journalism and a graduate research assistant for Maine’s Sustainability Solutions Initiative, was recognized by the National Science Foundation for her research poster on partnerships between universities and municipalities. That recognition came at NSF’s National EPSCoR Conference in October.
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