Climate Change

Citizen scientist training offered around state, Maine Edge reports

The Maine Edge published a University of Maine news release about “Signs of the Seasons,” a University of Maine Cooperative Extension and Maine Sea Grant program that offers multiple training sessions for those interested in identifying and recording seasonal changes in their communities in support of understanding Maine’s changing climate. Volunteers of all ages are […]

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UMaine to host ‘Power Dialog’ on state’s energy, climate policies

The University of Maine will take part in “Power Dialog: Maine’s Energy Future,” an event that aims to engage students, faculty and staff at high schools, colleges and universities throughout Maine in a weeklong discussion with state officials about energy and climate policies. Organized locally by Unity College, UMaine and Maine Conservation Alliance, the Power […]

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Maine sustainability issues focus of annual conference

From sessions on climate change and extreme weather events to dams, safe beaches and shellfish, and building sustainable food systems, the 2016 Maine Sustainability & Water Conference will feature an expanded agenda on topics affecting the state, region, country and globe. The Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine […]

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Mnozil Brass

Mnozil Brass to meld music, humor at CCA

Mnozil Brass, often called the “Monty Python of the music world,” will perform at 4 p.m. Sunday, April 10, at the Collins Center for the Arts at the University of Maine. The seven-member ensemble features talented musicians who earn a living by not taking themselves too seriously. Thomas Gansch, Robert Rother, Roman Rindberger, Leonhard Paul, […]

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Sorg cited in Current article on remains found at unmarked burial site

Marcella Sorg, a research professor at the University of Maine, was mentioned in the Current article, “Remains of three people found in unmarked, 1800s burial site in Scarborough.” Construction workers at a house lot found the unmarked graves of three people while digging the home’s new leach field last month, according to the article. With […]

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Stevens Hall

Fifteen UMaine faculty members receive tenure and/or promotion

Tenure and/or promotion for 15 University of Maine faculty members has been approved by the University of Maine System Board of Trustees. The faculty were nominated by UMaine President Susan J. Hunter based on a peer and administrative review of their successful work in teaching, research and public service. “The caliber of these faculty members […]

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Mount Desert Islander advances Borns’ ice age talk in Bar Harbor

Mount Desert Islander reported Hal Borns, professor emeritus with the University of Maine Climate Change Institute and School of Earth and Climate Sciences, will speak about whether the Earth is still in an ice age during the next Acadia Senior College Food for Thought event at Birch Bay Village in Bar Harbor. Borns will speak […]

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UMaine Extension offers ‘Signs of the Seasons’ training

University of Maine Cooperative Extension will offer multiple training sessions to those interested in identifying and recording seasonal changes in their communities in support of understanding Maine’s changing climate. Volunteers of all ages are invited to become citizen scientists through trainings offered around the state between now and the end of June. New this year, […]

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Media report on application increase, waitlist at UMaine

A number of media outlets reported the number of first-year student applications to the University of Maine is up 17 percent over last year and the university has instituted a waitlist for the first time in recent history. About 14,000 qualified students applied for admission and the projected incoming class will be about 2,150. Maine […]

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