The Maine Edge has an article about the Orono Bog Walk, which was founded by Professor Emeritus Ron Davis. The article includes comments from Davis as well as Justin Poland, a bog walk volunteer and associate professor of mechanical engineering at UMaine.
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Comments from glaciologist Gordon Hamilton of UMaine’s Climate Change Institute were included in a Voice of America story about a report released Wednesday that says Arctic ice is melting at a much faster rate than previously thought. Hamilton said the previous estimate for sea level rise is a very large underestimate and it is probably […]
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The Weekly newspaper had notices from the Challenger Learning Center in Bangor about programs with UMaine connections. The first, a Space Day open house, was held recently and featured students from UMaine’s College of Engineering who demonstrated wireless robotic sensors. The second took note of the “Connecting Climate to Curriculum” program, which involves scientists in […]
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Comments from Ed Ashworth, the dean of UMaine’s College of Natural Sciences, Forestry and Agriculture, were included in a Mainebiz story about a new crop of young farmers who are running smaller farms with more of a focus on locally sourced goods. Ashworth said despite the fact that putting together the capital investment to start […]
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The second annual Black Bear Beauties Plant Sale takes place Friday and Saturday, May 6-7 at the University of Maine Lyle E. Littlefield Ornamental Trial Garden in the Rangeley Road from 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. The sale is an opportunity for the public to buy rugged, often native, plants suitable for Maine gardens. They […]
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A news release about recent research on the squid-fishing industry by Teresa Johnson of the UMaine School of Marine Science was posted today on the National Science Foundation’s Science360 News Service website. Johnson concludes after reviewing some of the regulatory history on how Northeastern quotas and fishing territories are established that the most accurate stock […]
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University of Maine forestry and wildlife ecology students will team up with a public school chemistry teacher, fish, wildlife authorities and some 90 students from the Old Town Elementary School for a service-earning project in Hirundo Wildlife Refuge in Alton the week of May 2.
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If you want to know how the fishing is, ask a person who fishes. That’s the gist of a University of Maine study of cooperative research efforts in the nation’s Illex squid fishery.
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University of Maine researchers have published a paper in which they demonstrate that the blue mussel can eat larvae of the sea louse, a parasitic pest that has recently made a comeback on fish farms, decimating populations of farmed finfish.
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The Ellsworth American’s Fenceviewer website has a report about an announcement made this week at a meeting of the New England Fishery Management Council in Connecticut, during which the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced it will immediate begin an effort to improve collaboration between UMaine and other academic institutions in the region that conduct […]
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