UMaine’s Sea Grant Program is teaming up with the Department of Marine Resources and the Gulf of Maine Research Institute on a series of meetings around the state to focus and encourage research in areas of importance to the sustainability of Maine’s marine resources, according to a story on the website fenceviewer.com. The first meeting, […]
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A Mainebiz story and a longer Bangor Daily News report describe UMaine plans to build a state-of-the-art aquaculture research laboratory on the university’s Orono campus. The Bangor Daily News story includes comments from Prof. Ian Bricknell, Libra Professor of Aquaculture Biology and director of UMaine’s Aquaculture Research Institute and Debbie Bouchard, manager of the Maine […]
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Contact: Robert Meulenberg, (207) 581-2245 or Robert.meulenberg@umit.maine.edu The University of Maine will by next summer have in place a state-of-the-art magnetometer with which it will be possible for faculty members in several science disciplines to perform high-resolution magnetic and electrical experiments. The superconducting quantum interference device magnetometer, known as a SQUID magnetometer, will reach temperatures […]
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UMaine professor of soil science Ivan J. Fernandez, who recently received a distinguished lifetime appointment as a Class of 2010 fellow in the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA), presented the Sergei A. Wilde Distinguished Lectureship in Forest Soils at the International Annual Meetings of the SSSA Nov. 3 in Long Beach, Ca. This is […]
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Contact: Robert Causey, (207) 581-2782 ORONO — University of Maine animal and veterinary science researchers are receiving nearly $500,000 to establish a unique research, testing and education center that promises to substantially advance the diagnosis, treatment and understanding of particularly problematic animal diseases. The project, funded by a $497,392 Maine Technology Asset Fund grant, will […]
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UMaine’s Malcolm Hunter, professor of wildlife resources and Libra Professor of Conservation Biology, traveled to Washington D.C. to give a Wednesday Nov. 3 talk at the National Conservation Leadership Forum. That is a group tasked by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service with developing a “National Fish and Wildlife Climate Adaptation Strategy.”
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Contacts: Ian Bricknell (207) 581-4380 or ian.bricknell@umit.maine.edu; Debbie Bouchard (207) 581-2767 or dbouchard@umext.maine.edu The University of Maine is establishing a high-level containment facility for cold-water aquaculture research, which will be the only laboratory of its kind in the U.S. and one of few worldwide. FISHLab, which will be built to Bio-Safety Level-III specifications, will be […]
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UMaine PhD student Soren Hansen was featured in a Boston Globe story about his business Sea & Reef, one of only a few companies whose tropical saltwater fish are grown from eggs produced in captivity. Earlier this year, Hansen received a $200,000 grant from the Maine Technology Institute to build a new facility at UMaine’s […]
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Several UMaine faculty and researchers were highlighted in a Bangor Daily News story about an offshore wind power test site at Monhegan island. Peter Jumars, the director of UMaine’s School of Marine Scientists, was interviewed about environmental testing being performed at the site, and Bob Lindyberg of the AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center discussed […]
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Comments from Bob Rice of the UMaine School of Forest Resources faculty are included in an Associated Press story about Louise Jonaitis, a Portland investor who is working to revitalize four forest-products manufacturing businesses around Maine. The story appears in several newspaper, including the Detroit Free Press. It was on the front page of Saturday’s […]
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