University of Maine staff and students are taking part in a two-week field camp at Wind Cave National Park in Hot Springs, South Dakota. Jim Mead of East Tennessee State University is head of the multi-organization crew that will remove material that contains fossils from at least 22 species dating back 11,000 years. The crew […]
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The Bangor Daily News and WCYY 94.3 FM reported the Maine Sea Grant Program at the University of Maine partnered with O’Chang Comics to produce a short video on lobsters and climate change. The video, which was based on the UMaine report “Maine’s Climate Future: 2015 Update,” explains how rising sea temperatures in southern New […]
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Registration is open for the 10th annual Maine Beaches Conference, scheduled for July 17 at Southern Maine Community College in South Portland. The conference seeks to provide continuing opportunities for communication and exchange of the most current information among beach stakeholders with diverse interests. Charles S. Colgan, professor of public policy and management in the […]
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The Maine Edge published a University of Maine news release announcing UMaine researchers are part of a collaborative international team studying plankton. During expeditions aboard the research vessel Tara, researchers collected 35,000 samples from the world’s oceans. Data generated from the samples are providing unprecedented resources — including a catalog of several million new genes […]
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University of Maine oceanographers are part of a collaborative international team studying the microscopic world of plankton. During expeditions from 2009 to 2013 aboard Tara, researchers collected 35,000 samples from the world’s oceans. Data generated from the samples are providing unprecedented resources — including a catalog of several million new genes — expected to transform […]
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Live Science reported on climate change research conducted by a team of scientists including Paul Mayewski, director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine. The article, “Million-year-old bubbles reveal Antarctica’s oldest climate snapshot,” focused on research led by John Higgins, a geochemist at Princeton University. Higgins’ co-authors included Mayewski; Michael Bender, also […]
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Gordon Bromley, a research assistant professor at the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, was quoted in a Columbia Chronicle article about a a meta-analysis by a University of Connecticut ecology and evolutionary biology professor that states the impact of global warming is more tangible and destructive than previously thought. Mark Urban’s study, which was […]
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The Maine Public Broadcasting Network reported on soil research being conducted by Corianne Tatariw and Kaizad Patel, University of Maine students who are pursuing doctoral degrees in ecology and environmental science. Tatariw and Patel are researching how seasonal climatic changes from winter to spring affect soil nutrient cycling and therefore the biology, chemistry and physical […]
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Thought you had it tough shoveling the walkway this winter? Corianne Tatariw and Kaizad Patel cleared four 16.5-foot by 33-foot plots of land in University Forest in Old Town every time it snowed. All in a quest for knowledge. Tatariw and Patel are pursuing doctoral degrees in ecology and environmental science at the University of […]
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Kreutz, students part of ice core team that links abrupt temperature changes in Arctic, Antarctic.
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