102.9 WBLM in Portland and the Bangor Daily News reported on the release of Part II of O’Chang Studios’ animated series, A Climate Calamity in the Gulf of Maine: Acid in the Gulf. The cartoon, which describes how ocean acidification affects coastal waters and marine resources, is “fun to watch as well as educational,” according […]
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O’Chang Studios has released Part II of the animated series, A Climate Calamity in the Gulf of Maine: Acid in the Gulf. The cartoon, which describes how ocean acidification affects coastal waters and marine resources, premiered in early March as part of a scientific panel on ocean acidification at the 41st annual Maine Fishermen’s Forum […]
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Be immersed in a simulated tornado, illustrate nature, look through a solar telescope, hold an oyster, ask a genius a question. Do it all and more at the Maine Science Festival, being held March 18–20, at the Cross Insurance Center and other downtown Bangor venues. The University of Maine is participating in a number of […]
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Approximately 270 middle school girls from around the state are expected to take part in the annual University of Maine conference that aims to provide a safe and encouraging environment to explore science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). The 29th Expanding Your Horizons conference takes place March 17 on the UMaine campus and features workshops […]
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The Free Press reported on a project by the Maine Sea Grant College Program and the University of Maine Cooperative Extension that aims to help lobstermen. The three-year project, “Planning for a Changing Climate: A Participatory Approach to Fishing Community Adaptation,” has drawn on the observations of South Thomaston lobstermen to devise a computer model […]
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Daniel Sandweiss, a professor of anthropology and Quaternary and climate studies at the University of Maine, recently appeared on an episode of the Discovery Science show, “What on Earth?” The documentary series examines such matters as the planet’s extreme locations, phenomena and species. Sandweiss appeared in season three, episode one: “Finding Vietnam’s Lost POWs.”
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For some, a picture is worth a thousand words. For Jesica Waller, it’s worth $500, the opportunity to introduce people to her research through beautiful art and to be published in “Popular Science” magazine. Her photograph of a 3-week-old American lobster won the People’s Choice Award and its accompanying cash prize in the Vizzies, a […]
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Kit Hamley, a graduate student at the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, was a recent guest on Falkland Islands Television. She spoke about her research on an extinct species of fox called the warrah. Using field and laboratory techniques, Hamley hopes to learn how and when the animal arrived in the Falklands. “It’s been […]
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The Falkland Island News Network carried a WLBZ (Channel 2) report about the University of Maine’s Follow a Researcher program. For a second year, the University of Maine Cooperative Extension 4-H is offering the program that aims to connect K–12 students in Maine and around the country to UMaine researchers in the field. From Jan. […]
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Could the rise of the Mongol Empire, the greatest land empire ever on Earth, have been linked to climate change? Aaron Putnam thinks so. In 2010 and 2011, Putnam, previously at Columbia University and now an assistant professor in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences and the Climate Change Institute at the University of […]
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