A study led by the University of Maine captured how entire rockweed beds recover from harvest, and the practice has a smaller impact than previously thought. Rockweed wields immense influence over its intertidal habitat. Its tangled branches form the backbone of a rich ecosystem that shelters and feeds an abundance of marine life. Everywhere rockweed […]
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The University of Maine recognized 3,010 students for achieving Dean’s List honors in the fall 2022 semester. Of the students who made the Dean’s List, 1,983 are from Maine, 957 are from 45 other states and 70 are from 25 countries other than the U.S. To be eligible for the Full-time Dean’s List, a student […]
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Editor’s note: This story was updated Feb. 14, 2023. The assignment was simple: add information to the Wikipedia page of an invertebrate species, citing two peer-reviewed sources. Somehow, Kaylee Hussey misunderstood the task — and may have found a passion for science communication along the way. Hussey grew up in southern Maine. She always loved […]
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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 United States. UMaine will receive $2.7 million […]
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WMTW-TV (Channel 8 in Portland) and the Bangor Daily News reported on University of Maine research about tropical glaciers in Uganda. “One of the big reasons why the tropics are important is because what happens in the tropics doesn’t stay in the tropics. It influences the rest of the globe. A lot of our atmospheric […]
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An op-ed for the Portland Press Herald highlighted the University of Maine Lobster Institute’s U.S.-Canada Lobster Town Meeting, which it has held for the past 18 years, and the discussions there about the future of the industry’s approach to the North Atlantic right whale. CentralMaine.com shared the PPH commentary.
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The Public News Service reported that researchers at the University of Maine are studying the feeding habits of Arctic charr to help predict how other fish species could adapt to a warming climate. Michael Kinnison, director of the Maine Center for Genetics and the Environment at the University of Maine, said the research will inform […]
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The Lincoln County News reported that Heather Leslie, professor of marine science and director of the Darling Marine Center at the University of Maine, has been named a 2022 American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow, one of the highest honors in the scientific community.
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Tolu Esther Alaba, Ph.D. student in the Graduate School of Biological Science and Engineering at the University of Maine, received the Junior Investigator Speaker Award and third place Poster Award at the Berry Health Benefits Symposium (BHBS) Ninth Biennial Conference in Tampa, Florida for her work entitled “Phenolic acids from wild blueberry facilitate wound healing […]
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The Associated Press interviewed Rick Wahle, director of the Lobster Institute and professor of marine sciences at the University of Maine, about the impact of the rules about the minimum and maximum sizes of lobsters potentially becoming stricter. Wahle said that changing the U.S. measurement standards gives lobsters more opportunity to reproduce, though the change […]
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