The Bangor Daily News spoke with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s John Jemison and Glen Koehler for the article, “Maine gardners facing realities, challenges of climate change.” According to climate change experts, the state’s growing seasons have lengthened, allowing for the introduction of newer crops. “I think in this instance, climate change is in […]
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Daily Beast featured the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer in the article, “Four reasons snowy springs don’t disprove global warming.” The article states that a small swath of land from Maine to Georgia is not representative of the entire Earth’s surface, and the warming effects of global climate disruption have not been […]
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Terry Hughes, 80, died March 10 at his home in Ft. Pierre, South Dakota. In 1974, Hughes began a joint appointment at the University of Maine in the Department of Geological Sciences (now the Department of Earth Sciences) and the Institute for Quaternary Studies (now the Climate Change Institute). His glaciological and climate research was […]
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A fisheries scientist whose research informs commercial and recreational resource management, a popular mechanical engineering professor whose classroom contributions include development of new curricula and educational software, and a soil scientist whose leadership and expertise benefit policymakers and the public are the recipients of the University of Maine’s top faculty honors this year. Yong Chen, […]
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The Washington Post cited a study co-written by a University of Maine researcher in an article about accelerated melting of Greenland. The study found that levels of melting in Greenland have reached unprecedented rates compared to the past 450 years. Sean Birkel, Maine’s state climatologist and a research assistant professor at UMaine’s Climate Change Institute, […]
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Maine Public spoke with Rick Wahle, a research professor at the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center, for the report, “New research shows ‘strong correlation’ between baby lobster decline, possible food source.” Joshua Carloni, a research scientist in New Hampshire’s Fish and Game Division, recently wanted to explore why, at a time when the waters […]
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A recent University of Maine-led study on the changing composition of hardwood forests in the Northeastern United States was cited in the Bangor Daily News article, “How climate change is affecting the Maine maple syrup industry.” Andy Whitman, a forest scientist and the director of sustainable economies at Manomet, a Brunswick-based conservation nonprofit organization, said […]
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Research by Kimberly Huguenard, an assistant professor in ocean and marine engineering at the University of Maine, was included in a National Science Foundation (NSF) article about current water research. For the last two years, NSF has provided funding to enable communities across the country to take a closer look at the quality of their […]
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The Bangor Daily News spoke with Sean Birkel, Maine’s state climatologist and a research assistant professor at the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, for an article about a new study that found recent nor’easters could have been fueled by warming temperatures in the Arctic. Birkel said while a scientific cause-and-effect between the warming Arctic […]
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The fourth annual Maine Science Festival will be held throughout downtown Bangor and Orono March 15–18. The University of Maine is one of the major event sponsors. Several members of the UMaine community will lead workshops and participate in the program that draws science, innovation and creative achievement enthusiasts of all ages. A list of […]
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