Climate Change

Steneck, Pershing Interviewed for ThinkProgress Article on Lobster Boom

ThinkProgress spoke with Robert Steneck, professor in the School of Marine Sciences at the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center, and Andrew Pershing, professor in the Gulf of Maine Research Institute at UMaine, for the article “Lobster bubble: Maine’s lobster boom, and why experts predict a dramatic bust.” Steneck and Pershing spoke about the warming temperatures […]

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FIS, BDN Report on UMaine Student’s Cannibal Lobster Research

FIS, the website of Fish Information and Services, and the Bangor Daily News are among the latest organizations to 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 […]

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MsnNOW, Gawker Report on UMaine Grad Student’s Lobster Cannibalism Research

MsnNOW, Gawker, The Inquisitr and The Week were among news organizations to report on research by Noah Oppenheim, a marine biology graduate student at the University of Maine. Oppenheim’s research suggests climate change is creating cannibalism among lobsters. He came to the discovery after capturing on an underwater camera adult lobsters eating adolescent ones.

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UMaine Grad Student’s Lobster Cannibalism Research Reported on by Mother Jones

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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Mills Talks to MPBN About Declining Salmon Population

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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Holberton Quoted in Article on Puffins

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 Covers Maine Beaches Conference

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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