The Bangor Daily News, Chemistry World, Chemical and Engineering News, Science Daily and Innovations Report shared a study that developed a model and deeper understanding of molecular motors which was co-authored by R. Dean Astumian, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Maine.
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Dianne Kopec, faculty fellow at the University of Maine Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions, spoke to the Maine Monitor about PFAS in marine life. Kopec explained that unlike pollutants such as PCBs or DDT, which primarily accumulate within fatty tissue, or mercury, which primarily accumulates in proteins and muscle tissue, PFASs concentrations are highest in […]
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Kimberly Miner, research assistant professor at the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, was featured in an NBC News segment about how climate change has fueled recent extreme weather events and flooding in California. “Climate change is warming the whole planet and that includes the atmosphere and the oceans. What that means for us is […]
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Science featured research led by Victor Ortega-Jiménez, assistant professor of integrative avian biology and biomechanics, showing that flamingos use fluid mechanics to filter food out of muddy waters. Ortega-Jiménez and colleagues from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Kennesaw State University analyzed the wading and feeding behaviors of Chilean flamingos at the Nashville Zoo and […]
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Sean Birkel, Maine state climatologist and assistant professor with a joint appointment in University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the UMaine Climate Change Institute, spoke to the Bangor Daily News about the exceptionally warm December in Bangor. “If we look at the larger statewide scales, winters in Maine are warming on average, though there is […]
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In a story about Maine’s scallop farming industry, News Center Maine spoke to Christopher Noren, graduate student at the University of Maine Darling Marine Center, about his research into the best ways to grow scallops to farm. Noren said that climate change warming Maine’s waters can pose a potential risk to the scallop industry, both […]
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Quantifying the number of giant Atlantic bluefin tuna in New England that die after being caught and released is the goal of a new University of Maine-led study. The U.S. Department of Commerce awarded Walt Golet, a University of Maine assistant professor of marine science, more than $210,800 for the project. For their research on […]
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The Maine Policy Matters podcast will launch its third season on Jan. 17 with an episode about offshore wind development, followed by an episode about the future of Maine’s lobster industry on Jan. 30. The premiere episode on Jan. 17 focuses on the Maine Policy Review article “Maine and Offshore Wind Development: Using the Coastal […]
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Editor’s note: Updated Jan. 10, 2023 The COVID-19 pandemic has been a “wicked problem” for higher education, argue researchers from the University of Maine who recently published a study exploring how the first year of the pandemic affected research activities at the institution. “Wicked problems are complex, nonlinear and unique, with a high likelihood of […]
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Growing up in Chile’s Patagonia region, Guillermo Figueroa-Muñoz never imagined he would end up in Orono, Maine, over 6,000 miles away from his hometown of Puerto Cisnes. Thanks to a little luck and hard work, though, the University of Maine Ph.D. student is using the research skills he learned studying fisheries in his home country […]
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