David Townsend, a biological oceanographer at the University of Maine, was quoted in Part One of the Portland Press Herald series, “Mayday: Gulf of Maine in distress.” The changing currents in the Gulf of Maine are likely due to the melting of the Greenland ice sheet and ice from the Arctic Ocean over the past […]
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Journal Tribune cited a Maine Policy Review report written by Joseph Kelley, a professor of marine geology in the University of Maine School of Earth and Climate Sciences and Climate Change Institute, in an article about Wells Beach erosion. The article focused on a public hearing held by the Board of Selectmen to discuss purchasing […]
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On Friday, June 26, as various school systems came to the end of their academic calendars, 17 Maine high school and middle school teachers and 12 science researchers gathered around small tables at the University of Maine, all with the same topic in mind. Climate change. The group participated in a climate science teacher workshop […]
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As many University of Maine students and faculty headed home for Fall Break, one group of academics was back on campus, bright and early, Monday morning. They are members of the UMaine Faculty Fellows Program, and instead of hunkering down in their offices and research labs, they rolled up their sleeves and buckled in for […]
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Rick Wahle, a University of Maine research professor at the Darling Marine Center, was interviewed by Ozy for the article, “How Maine has managed an amazing lobster comeback.” The article states that three years after lobster prices in Maine collapsed during a glut, they are now at the highest in half a decade, and harvests […]
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Joseph Kelley, a professor of marine geology in the University of Maine School of Earth and Climate Sciences and Climate Change Institute, was quoted in an Associated Press article about how Louisiana’s next governor will play a crucial role in the state’s coastal crisis. The governor is expected to either aggressively work to save the […]
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Bob Bayer, executive director of the Lobster Institute at the University of Maine, spoke with Seacoastonline for an article about shell disease becoming an increasing problem for lobstermen in Kittery. Lobster shell disease has been prevalent in southern New England for more than 20 years, according to the article. Although less than 1 percent of […]
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Rachel Lasley-Rasher wanted to learn more about highly mobile shrimp that are important food for baleen whales and commercial fish along the continental shelf from Cape Hatteras to Nova Scotia. Because of their significance in the marine food web, she said a better understanding of shrimp migration patterns could fill knowledge gaps and help predict […]
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The University of Maine report, “Maine’s Climate Future: 2015 Update,” was cited in a Washington Post article on the increase in winter ticks in Maine and New Hampshire as winters warm. Conditions over the past few years have been almost perfect for winter tick population booms in the two states, according to the article. During […]
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Jesica D. Waller, a graduate student at the University of Maine Darling Marine Center, was interviewed for an Al Jazeera English television piece about ocean acidification and lobsters. “The cause for worry is really we don’t know enough to worry,” says Waller, whose research focuses on how American lobster larvae develop in acidic ocean conditions. […]
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