University of Maine Ph.D. candidate Aaron Putnam is a member of an international team of scientists who have produced a prediction of what climate records from Greenland might look like over the last 800,000 years and investigation into the possible causes of abrupt climate change.
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Norrine Daly, a faculty member in UMaine’s Department of Animal and Veterinary Science and the event coordinator at the J.F. Witter Teaching and Research Center, had an op-ed column in the Bangor Daily News. Daly advocated for voter support of the creation of racinos in Biddeford and Washington County, arguing a “yes” vote in the […]
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Jeff Thaler, a UMaine visiting professor of energy policy, law and ethics, was featured in a Maine Sunday Telegram story about TEDxDirigo, a daylong conference held in Portland. TED (technology, entertainment and design) conferences are held all around the world, with the goal of “creating positive change.” Fifteen people, including Thaler and UMaine Prof. Habib […]
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Mark Anderson, senior instructor in the UMaine School of Economics, will return to his native Aroostook County to give a pair of mid-September talks on sustainability. A key contributor to Maine’s Sustainability Solutions Initiative, a statewide, interdisciplinary research and outreach effort based at UMaine, Anderson will discuss “Toward a Theory of Sustainability: An Exercise in […]
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The Bangor Daily News included comments from James Gilbert, UMaine professor of wildlife ecology, in a story about the levels of man-made contaminants found in Maine’s harbor seals. Gilbert told the BDN that UMaine scientists attached tiny radio transmitters to 24 harbor seals in Maine and Massachusetts and intended to use the radio signals to […]
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The field of nanoscience has shown that the smallest of particles are sometimes the strongest. Research into these infinitesimal objects – whose dimensions range from a few nanometers to less than 100 nanometers; by comparison, a sheet of paper has a thickness of 100,000 nanometers – has also shown these particles are well-suited for use […]
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The University of Maine School of Nursing this fall launched a new Nurse Educator’s Certificate Program, which is expected to help ease the shortage of nurses by producing more nursing clinical instructors in Maine.
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Bangor television station WABI covered Maine Commissioner of Agriculture Walter Whitcomb’s recent trip to Highmoor Farm, a UMaine facility which performs practical research studies for the apple industry. Renae Moran, UMaine Extension tree fruit specialist, was interviewed for the story and said the size of the crop this year will be above average, which means […]
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The VillageSoup weekly newspapers noted an upcoming lecture series in Castine which will featured several UMaine researchers. The series, which is sponsored by Maine Maritime Academy, will open on Sept. 19 with Andrew Pershing, a UMaine researcher, who will give a talk on “Finding Whales in a Changing Ocean.” Beth Campbell of UMaine will speak […]
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Two UMaine researchers affiliated with the Darling Marine Center in Walpole were mentioned in a Discovery News report about an 18th century sailing vessel found during excavations at the World Trade Center site. The story mentioned marine biologist and Darling Center Director Kevin Eckelbarger had identified the shell morphology in the bored-out timbers of the […]
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