The Center for Public Integrity interviewed Griffin Dill, an integrated pest management professional with University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the director of the Extension’s new diagnostic laboratory, for a report on ticks and Lyme disease in Maine. The report also quoted Susan Elias, a vector ecologist at the Climate Change Institute. Fifteen tick species […]
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Daniel H. Sandweiss, a professor of anthropology and climate studies at the University of Maine, was tapped to be president-elect of Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society at its biennial convention. In 2020, he will be president for two years. Phi Kappa Phi was founded at UMaine in 1897 and Sandweiss is the first national […]
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The University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer was featured in reports by The Barents Observer and the Metro about heat waves in July and August. This summer, exceptionally high temperatures have become the standard for areas north of the Arctic Circle, The Barents Observer states. The Climate Reanalyzer map labels areas that show […]
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WMTW (Channel 8 in Portland) quoted Sean Birkel, Maine’s state climatologist and a research assistant professor at the University of Maine, and Ellen Mallory, an associate professor with the Cooperative Extension and the School of Food and Agriculture at UMaine, in a report on Maine’s climate future. The average temperature in Maine has risen by […]
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The University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer was featured in News Center Maine and Daily Express reports on heat records worldwide. Nearly the entire planet was labeled red this week, meaning most of the world experienced hotter-than-average temperatures for late July. The effects of the heatwave include wildfires in Greece, forest fires in […]
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A team of University of Maine researchers has been awarded $1.17 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to develop and test land management practices to protect Maine forest workers from exposure to tick-borne diseases. The three-year project, “Developing adaptive forest management practices to mitigate impacts of climate change on human health,” is being led […]
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The University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer was featured in a Washington Post article about all-time heat records across the globe. Temperatures in Northern Siberia were up to 40 degrees above normal, and the highest temperature ever measured in Africa, 124 degrees, was recorded in Algeria, both on July 5. The majority of […]
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The Adirondack Almanack advanced a lecture by Curt Stager, the Draper-Lussi endowed Chair of Paleoecology and Lake Ecology at Paul Smith’s College and a research associate with the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute. The lecture, titled “Gardens: Weather or Not,” is part of a public meeting of the Adirondack Garden Club at the Crowne […]
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University of Maine scientists are part of an interdisciplinary research team equipped with advanced underwater robotics and analytical instrumentation that will set sail in August from Seattle to the northeastern Pacific Ocean. They’ll examine the life and death of plankton — microscopic organisms that are the base of the ocean food web and play a […]
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VillageSoup advanced a field trip to shell middens on the Medomak River led by Alice Kelley, an instructor in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences and a research associate professor with the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine. Kelley will guide field trip participants and educate them on current knowledge of the […]
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