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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At age 7, Sky Heller was captivated digging through a buried trash heap protruding from an eroding bank at her family’s farm in the foothills of Pennsylvania. “When I found out I could do it for a career, I’ve never looked back,” says Heller, now a Ph.D. candidate in anthropology and environmental policy at the […]
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Ellen Mallory, University of Maine Cooperative Extension specialist and associate professor of sustainable agriculture, was awarded $11,902 grant for food research from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The project is supported by the USDA’s Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) and is titled, “Investigating Diversity as a Climate Resilience Strategy for Potato and […]
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Bradfield Lyon, a climate analyst and associate research professor at the University of Maine, spoke with Climate Progress for the article, “Africa is going through a serious drought and El Nino is making it worse.” According to the article, El Nino has exacerbated a crippling drought interrupting the rainy season used for planting much needed […]
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PRI’s “The World” mentioned two University of Maine researchers in the report, “In Greenland, a climate change mystery with clues written in water and stone.” According to the article, Greenland holds the world’s second largest ice sheet, and it’s melting fast — an average of 287 billion metric tons of ice a year. Glaciologist Gordon […]
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Paul Mayewski, director of the Climate Change Institute, spoke about his recent 4.5-week trek to recover ice cores in South Georgia on “207,” a news program on WLBZ (Channel 2) and WCSH (Channel 6). Part I of the interview aired Monday, Jan. 11. Part II will air Tuesday, Jan. 12.
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