Maine Impact Week, an annual celebration of the University of Maine’s community and contributions to the scientific, creative and economic advancement of the state, officially kicks off on April 7. More than 25 events will highlight the impact of research and creativity produced by Maine’s only R1 research university, a distinction held by 187 top-tier […]
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Science News spoke with University of Maine professor of terrestrial paleoecology Jacquelyn Gill on an experiment to de-extinct the wooly mammoth by breeding mice. “I understand why someone would be compelled to see a mammoth,” Gill said. “I’ve never seen my study system in person, right? It only exists in my mind’s eye, because I […]
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CBS News interviewed Jason Lilley, Maine sustainable agriculture and maple industry educator, on practices in the maple industry to make sugarbushes more resilient to climate change. “I just don’t want producers to be going out of business, and to see this industry start to decline,” Lilley said. “We can’t just sit around and watch this […]
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University of Maine faculty and students will present at several events during the Maine Science Festival, a program of the Maine Discovery Museum in Bangor that will include more than 70 events and activities from March 18-23. The five-day celebration will showcase science and technology happening in Maine in the format of an arts or […]
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Eos featured University of Maine Climate Change Institute Associate Director Jasmine Saros to discuss a recent study she led which found that after two months of record heat and precipitation in fall 2022, an estimated 7,500 lakes in Greenland turned brown, began emitting carbon and decreased in water quality “You can actually see more heat […]
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In an article titled “Rising Temperatures Are Scrambling the Base of the Ocean Food Web,” Jeffrey Runge, a zooplankton ecologist who recently retired as a professor from the University of Maine School of Marine Sciences, spoke with The New York Times about Calanus finmarchicus, a type of zooplankton. You can think of Calanus as “little […]
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For an article titled “Once a form of currency, quahogs remain a steady source of cash,” The Harpswell Anchor interviewed Brian Beal, professor of marine ecology at the University of Maine at Machias, on the decline in soft shell clams. “There’s no mystery,” said Beal, also director of the Downeast Institute. “The whole thing comes […]
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Three University of Maine faculty — Heather Leslie, Sydne Record and Brenda Hall — spoke at the annual meeting for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) on Feb. 14. AAAS is the world’s largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research. Leslie, professor of marine science who was named […]
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While New England is well known for commodities such as maple syrup, wild blueberries and cranberries, its reputation for sweets extends to another crop: sweet corn. The 2023-24 crop production report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture showed the region produced just under 3 million tons of corn, of which Vermont contributed approximately half and […]
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The CBC Radio program “Quirks and Quarks,” interviewed Jasmine Saros, associate director of the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, on her latest research, which revealed that lakes in West Greenland began emitting carbon and decreased in water quality following record heat and precipitation. Saros and a team of researchers concluded that the combination of […]
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