The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded a $10 million grant to a collaborative research team from the University of Maine, the University of Georgia and lead-site Purdue University to help landowners and stakeholders better adapt their forests to increasingly complicated economic and climate conditions in the eastern United States. UMaine will receive $2.7 million […]
Read more
Jason Lilley, assistant Extension professor and Maine sustainable agriculture and maple industry educator, was interviewed by Maine Public about the early maple tree tapping season caused by the warm winter weather. “All of these changing weather patterns and weather extremes are having impacts on the tree health. And we as a research community are trying […]
Read more
WMTW-TV (Channel 8 in Portland) and the Bangor Daily News reported on University of Maine research about tropical glaciers in Uganda. “One of the big reasons why the tropics are important is because what happens in the tropics doesn’t stay in the tropics. It influences the rest of the globe. A lot of our atmospheric […]
Read more
Warming temperatures have attracted blue crabs to the Gulf of Maine, and their aggressive nature is harmful to native bivalves that are essential to Maine fisheries. Brandon Henry, a graduate student involved in Maine EPSCoR’s environmental DNA, or eDNA, initiative, is researching the novel emergence of blue crabs along the coast of Maine, specifically Casco […]
Read more
Beth Davis, a graduate student in the University of Maine School of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, is exploring the uses of environmental DNA, or eDNA, to monitor fish and invertebrates in freshwater rivers and streams. Advised by Andy Rominger, assistant professor of ecological bioinformatics, Davis looks to understand how community ecology in these freshwater ecosystems […]
Read more
Ancient geological discrepancies can not only puzzle scientists, but can also lead to revelations about our present climate once they are solved. An international team led by a University of Maine researcher has uncovered a 20,000-year-old geological mystery in Uganda that will inform how scientists understand the relationship between glaciers, sea level temperatures and precipitation […]
Read more
Maine Public interviewed Darren Ranco, chair of Native American programs at the University of Maine, about plans to organize two symposia with 10 Wabanaki knowledge keepers at each event as part of an effort to update the Wabanaki Climate Adaptation and Adaptive Management Workbook. “That’s going to focus on gathering women’s knowledge as it relates […]
Read more
Sean Birkel, Maine state climatologist and assistant professor with a joint appointment in University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the UMaine Climate Change Institute, spoke to USA Today to fact check an article that falsely claims the sun is causing global cooling. Birkel explained that cold events can occur even on a warming planet. Climate […]
Read more
The Maine Monitor spoke to Brian Beal, a professor of ecology and at the University of Maine at Machias, about the impact of climate change on Maine’s clam fishery. “Climate change is just that piece of dynamite that’s been thrown into that room. That has just changed everything,” Beal said. News Center Maine, the Bangor Daily […]
Read more
The University of Maine Office of Sponsored Research has been awarded $50,000 from Jane’s Trust Foundation for a project to develop adaptive resilience to climate change with Wabanaki communities, led by Darren Ranco, professor of anthropology and chair of Native American Programs at the University of Maine. Jane’s Trust Foundation is a family foundation dedicated […]
Read more