Graduate School

Maine Edge advances Hal Borns Symposium

The Maine Edge published a University of Maine news release about the 24th annual Harold W. Borns Jr. Symposium to be held April 14–15 in Stodder Hall. UMaine graduate students and faculty will make more than 60 presentations about emerging climate change research on topics from lobsters to deer ticks. The symposium namesake, Professor Emeritus […]

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Doctoral candidates organize club, author ‘Oceanography’ article

Three University of Maine marine science students authored an article about developing camaraderie and job skills in “Oceanography” magazine. Doctoral candidates Karen Stamieszkin, Melissa A. May and Alison Chase wrote about their experience creating the Marine Science Professional Development Club (MSPDC) and planning three student retreats at the seaside Darling Marine Center in Walpole. “Indeed, […]

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Emerging climate change research focus of Hal Borns Symposium

University of Maine graduate students and faculty will make more than 60 presentations about emerging climate change research on topics from lobsters to deer ticks at the 24th annual Harold W. Borns Jr. Symposium on April 14–15, in Stodder Hall. The symposium namesake, Professor Emeritus Harold “Hal” Borns, founded the Climate Change Institute at UMaine […]

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DMC explorers to share ideas, spark discussion at TEDx talks

University of Maine doctoral student Skylar Bayer and oceanographer Bob Steneck will deliver TEDx talks at separate events in May. Bayer, based at the Darling Marine Center in Walpole, will take the stage at TEDxPiscataquaRiver “On the Edge” on Friday, May 6, at 3S Artspace in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Bayer, a doctoral candidate in marine […]

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Ph.D. student pens BDN piece about consequences of early spring

The Bangor Daily News published Zachary T. Wood’s outdoors article about what an early spring can mean for Maine’s lakes. Wood is a Ph.D. student in the ecology and environmental sciences program at the University of Maine. During an early ice-out, Wood said the upper reaches of a lake warm faster and lake stratification (a […]

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Aaron Putnam on a glacier in Bhutan

Putnam blazes ice age career path

Aaron Putnam has been awarded one of most prestigious grants for an early-career scientist. Early career indeed. Putnam has been on the job at the University of Maine for about eight months as the George H. Denton Assistant Professor in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences. In May, he’ll take the reins of a […]

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Play, programs focus on challenges Iranian women face

The University of Maine will host several public programs centered around a free performance of a play that offers historical and contemporary insight into the plight of women in Iran. “The Poets and the Assassin” will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 7 in Minsky Recital Hall on campus. The play portrays struggles Iranian […]

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Ph.D. student quoted in Hakai Magazine article on warming waters, lobsters

Samuel Belknap, a Ph.D. student in the Adaptation to Abrupt Climate Change NSF IGERT Fellowship program pursuing a degree in anthropology and environmental policy at the University of Maine, was quoted in the Hakai Magazine article, “A warming threat to Maine’s lobsters.” In 2012, lobstermen started showing up at Belknap’s family dock in Bristol with […]

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Ph.D. candidate quoted in National Geographic blog post on community-supported fisheries

Josh Stoll, a Ph.D. candidate in ecology and environmental sciences at the University of Maine, was mentioned in a post on the National Geographic blog, “Voices: Ideas and Insights from Explorers.” According to the article, “Community-supported fisheries: A better way to buy fish?” community-supported fisheries (CSFs) replace the typical seafood-purchasing model, which is largely based […]

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