Mother Jones carried a Climate Desk report on research by Noah Oppenheim, a marine biology graduate student at the University of Maine, that suggests climate change is creating cannibalism among lobsters. Oppenheim came to the discovery after capturing on an underwater camera adult lobsters eating adolescent ones. The Climate Desk is a collaboration between Mother Jones, […]
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Katherine Mills, researcher at the University of Maine and Gulf of Maine Research Institute, spoke with the Maine Public Broadcasting Network about a new study on the decline of North American Atlantic Salmon populations that analyzes data from the past three decades. The study, which was recently published in Global Change Biology magazine, was written by […]
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Changing ocean conditions threaten North American Atlantic salmon.
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Rebecca Holberton, University of Maine professor of biology and ecology, was quoted in the International Business Times article “Puffins return to Maine for nesting season, but climate peril looms.” Holberton’s quote, “It’s our marine canary in a coal mine, if you will,” came from an Associated Press article in June about the risk of starvation […]
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WLBZ (Channel 2) covered the Maine Beaches Conference on Friday, July 12 at Southern Maine Community College in South Portland. The conference, coordinated by Maine Sea Grant and a steering committee of public and private partners, focused on the effects of Superstorm Sandy and the lessons Maine can learn from the storm.
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Sensor buoy to help answer questions about declining water clarity in Acadia National Park.
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The Sun Journal, Portland Press Herald, WABI (Channel 5) and WLBZ (Channel 2) were among several news organizations to carry an Associated Press report previewing the Maine Beaches Conference. The conference, coordinated by Maine Sea Grant and a steering committee of public and private partners, takes place Friday, July 12 at Southern Maine Community College […]
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Rick Wahle and Katherine Mills, UMaine researchers who helped co-author a recent article in the scientific publication Oceanography, spoke with the Bangor Daily News about how Maine fisheries can and should be more adaptive to climate change.
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Last month in Boston, University of Maine Sustainability Coordinator Dan Dixon accepted an Environmental Merit Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency New England on behalf of the university. The University of Maine is a charter signatory of the American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment (ACUPCC), which was initiated in 2007 by Second Nature […]
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Researchers uncover lessons for fisheries management in changing climate.
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