The University of Maine, with funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and NOAA Fisheries, is launching the first-ever national assessment of seafood marketing practices in the United States. The American Seafood Harvesters Marketing Practices Survey aims to bring attention to the role that seafood harvesters play in the nation’s food systems and, eventually, […]
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Determining how the diversity of plant-eating megafauna has affected vegetation in the Arctic over the past 150,000 years will be the focus of a new University of Maine study funded by the National Science Foundation. Alessandro Mereghetti, a UMaine Ph.D. student in ecology and environmental sciences, received a $56,118 Arctic Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant […]
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Kristina Cammen, assistant professor at the University of Maine School of Marine Sciences, was a panelist on Maine Public’s show Maine Calling for an episode about how to help stranded seals and the health of Maine’s seal population.
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Seth Campbell, associate professor at the University of Maine School of Earth and Climate Sciences and Climate Change Institute, was quoted by Science and E&E News about unfair practices in the polar Physical Qualification, or PQ, process. The comprehensive medical screening is required for scientists and support staff whose deployment to the Antarctic and Arctic […]
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In an article about lobsters using their feet to taste food, Grunge cited information from the University of Maine Lobster Institute explaining that lobsters eat tough seafood like crabs and mussels by using their claws to rip their prey into pieces and break through tough shells and use its limbs to bring the morsel into […]
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On the Water boosted a survey from the Pelagic Fisheries Lab at the University of Maine and the Gulf of Maine Research Institute evaluating post-release mortality on commercial-size Atlantic bluefin tuna. Survey data will be used to inform the tagging portion of the study in hopes of capturing a representative set of the rod and […]
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The Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine will host a talk, “USGS Water Science Centers: Serving our Communities with Science,” on Monday, March 6 at 3 p.m. Speaker John Bumgarner is the director of the U.S. Geological Survey’s New England Water Science Center (WSC). He joined the New […]
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Morning Ag Clips noted that Glenda Pereira, assistant Extension professor, assistant professor of animal science and dairy specialist at the University of Maine, will present at the Herd Health and Nutrition Conference April 3–4 in East Syracuse, New York. Pereira’s presentation will focus on a comparison of crossbreds with holsteins for confinement and pasture production […]
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The University of Maine is recruiting taste testers for its food science Sensory Evaluation Center. Members of the public who are 18 and older are invited to subscribe to an email list that announces taste testing opportunities. The lab tests everything from seafood to spuds to help researchers and companies evaluate the palatability of new […]
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Mainebiz reported that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded a $10 million grant to a collaborative research team from the University of Maine, the University of Georgia and lead-site Purdue University to help landowners and stakeholders better adapt their forests to increasingly complicated economic and climate conditions in the eastern U.S.
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