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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Research team looks at the possibility that boron could have played a role in the origin of life.
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Researchers and students from the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine are featured in an article and video by Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. The report cites work by Climate Change Institute researcher Gordon Bromley and UMaine anthropologist Kurt Rademaker.
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New doctoral program adopts holistic approach in implementing environmental policy.
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The Bangor Daily News published “Climate denial: Seductive but not morally excusable,” an opinion piece by Sharon Tisher, teacher of environmental law and energy policy at the University of Maine.
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A BBC News article titled “Ancient Irish texts show volcanic link to cold weather” said researchers used ice-core data from the Greenland Ice Sheet Project to help trace the effect of volcanic eruptions on the climate. Paul Mayewski, director and distinguished Maine professor at the Climate Change Institute, is one of the leaders of the […]
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Rebecca Holberton, University of Maine professor of biology and ecology, spoke with the Associated Press about the risk of starvation puffins and other seabirds are facing in the United States. WCVB in Boston, Sun Journal, Portland Press Herald and WABI (Channel 5) were among news organizations to carry the report.
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Two entries from University of Maine graduate students have been submitted into the National Science Foundation’s Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program’s 2013 Video and Poster Competition. Maureen Correll and Bjorn Grigholm, graduate students in the Adaptation to Abrupt Climate Change IGERT program at UMaine, submitted a video and poster titled “Abrupt Climate […]
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