Roughly 15% of plastic waste cleaned up along Maine’s coastlines comes from foodware. Chemicals used in plastic production often leach into the environment and pose health risks once absorbed into the body. Chyanne Yoder, a Ph.D. student at the University of Maine, aims to squash this source of pollution by supporting coastal communities’ efforts to […]
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The Maine Monitor highlighted the collaboration between the University of Maine and Blue Hill Heritage Trust since 2017 to restore red spruce to Surry Forest. Jay Wason, a UMaine associate professor of forest ecosystem physiology, is spearheading the project, and a UMaine graduate student in the school of forest resources, Rose Gellman, published a forest […]
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The Philanthropic Educational Organization (PEO) in central Maine, a local nonprofit, is seeking a doctoral scholar from the University of Maine in the final two years of their program to serve as a nominee for the National PEO Scholar Award. The National PEO Scholar Awards were established in 1991 to provide a substantial one-time, merit-based […]
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A scallop farm based in Belfast, Maine and co-owned by University of Maine alumnus Struan Coleman (’21G) was featured in the PBS documentary “Hope in the Water.” Coleman received his master’s in marine policy from UMaine in 2021, during which time he studied the economic feasibility of scallop farming in Maine and was introduced to […]
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WABI (Channel 5) boosted a request from University of Maine researchers to anglers, asking them to donate their legal striped bass remains after filleting. Researchers, led by UMaine graduate student Abrielle Remick, are using bass remains to analyze and understand the fish’s feeding habits. Remick said findings may help researchers and wildlife management make more […]
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Forbes highlighted a resource from the University of Maine created to help graduate students learn how to use AI effectively and ethically.
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Boise State Public Radio interviewed University of Maine Ph.D. candidate Jason Brough on Indigenous nation’s reclamation and rejuvenation of their land amid changing climate. “The key point to understand is that Indigenous peoples are not the cause of our current climate crisis,” Brough said. “We’re trying our best to do our part for this, but […]
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At the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center, student researchers have launched a new project this summer to investigate the feeding habits of striped bass along the coast of Maine. The project is led by Abby Remick, a first-year graduate student in the lab of Michelle Staudinger, associate professor of marine sciences. Student researchers will […]
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Editor’s note: This story was updated on July 1. Researchers from the University of Maine and Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences have demonstrated a new approach to understanding the diet of newly hatched American lobsters, opening doors for better understanding the role they play in the Gulf of Maine’s ecosystem. Scientists know little about what […]
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Sophia Cameron, a city of Bangor intern who recently earned her master’s degree from the University of Maine, spoke with News Center Maine, about efforts to protect the city’s ash trees from emerald ash borer. “If we were to do nothing, all of those trees would likely die over the next 10 years,” she said. […]
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