The Portland Press Herald published a feature article on University of Maine graduate student Kaitlyn Abrams as part of its “Meet” series. Abrams, who is pursuing a master’s degree in English, is the founder and editor-in-chief of “Spire,” a new online journal of conservation and sustainability based at UMaine. The student-produced journal seeks to promote […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reported on the photography featured in the inaugural edition of “Spire,” an online journal of conservation and sustainability based at the University of Maine. The student-produced journal seeks to promote awareness-raising dialogue to unite Maine communities to effect positive environmental change. “How do we engage with these issues of conserving of the […]
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Island Ad-Vantages reported University of Maine student Anne “Ani” St. Amand of Deer Isle has been awarded a graduate research fellowship because of her demonstrated potential for significant achievement in STEM fields. The three-year National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships are awarded to promote innovation, transformative scientific breakthroughs and economic growth in the U.S. St. […]
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The University of Maine Graduate Student Government has announced this year’s winner of the Dan Sandweiss Graduate Student Advocacy Award, which is given to a member of the UMaine community who has shown dedication and service to graduate students. This year, the GSG has awarded the honor to Dan Churchill. Churchill, who earned a bachelor’s […]
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Mount Desert Islander reported Ellyn Enderlin, a research assistant professor at the University of Maine Climate Change Institute and School of Earth and Climate Sciences, will speak in Bar Harbor on May 5. Enderlin will discuss the drastic changes to the Earth’s oceans as a result of the melt of the Greenland ice sheet. Her […]
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Ever wonder if there’s a journalism course at the University of Maine that incorporates climate science reporting? Who would be an informative speaker to talk about long-term watershed management, or changes in the lobster industry related to climate impacts, or reducing climate-related effects with community infrastructure improvements? Answers to these questions and many more can […]
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The inaugural edition of “Spire,” an online journal of conservation and sustainability based at the University of Maine, will be launched Thursday, May 4. A public celebration with food and beverages will mark the occasion 6–8 p.m. May 4 in the Hudson Museum at the Collins Center for the Arts. The Maine Woods National Park […]
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Emmanuel Boss, a professor of oceanography at the University of Maine, spoke with Scientific American for an article about four climate-related NASA satellite missions that face possible elimination under the budget proposed by President Donald Trump’s administration. Boss is the science team lead of the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud and ocean Ecosystem (PACE) project, one of […]
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Weather.com spoke with University of Maine researcher Rick Wahle and cited graduate research by Jesica Waller for the Maine report in its “United States of Climate Change Series.” In the Gulf of Maine, climate change is causing ocean temperatures to rise more quickly than nearly anywhere else on the planet, according to the article. This […]
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Paul Mayewski, director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, was quoted in a CBS News report about a recent Columbia University study that found water is gushing across Antarctica. The researchers found significant drainage of meltwater flowing across the continent’s ice sheets during summer in Antarctica. Until now, these streams of […]
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