The University of Maine has released a video about a summer 2022 expedition by students and faculty to Greenland as part of a program funded by the National Science Foundation. Read transcript In June 2022, Jasmine Saros, associate director of the Climate Change Institute and professor of paleolimnology and lake ecology with the School of […]
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In an article about sustainable food options, Planet Forward quoted Denise Skonberg, associate professor of food science in the Food and Agriculture School at the University of Maine, about her research looking at the benefits seaweed and algae can have on a human diet and the environment. “There are thousands of species of seaweeds, and […]
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The Bangor Daily News spoke to David Handley, professor at the University of Maine fruit and vegetable research center at Highmoor Farm and cooperating professor of horticulture at the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, about the impact of record high November temperatures on Maine’s perennial crops. “We are seeing some buds starting to break out. […]
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Maine Public interviewed Tora Johnson, about how she discusses climate change with people who are skeptical of the science behind it, view it as not a priority or feel too powerless to help mitigate it. Johnson, associate professor of GIS and chair of the Division of Environmental and Biological Sciences at the University of Maine […]
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Maine Public spoke to YongJiang Zhang, assistant professor of plant physiology, and Rachel Schattman, assistant professor of sustainable agriculture, about the ways in which climate change may benefit Maine wild blueberry growers. Zhang, who studies how wild blueberries respond to warmer temperatures, said that warmer temperatures will extend the berries’ growing season, and biochar can […]
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University of Maine researchers who are attending a United Nations climate summit Nov. 7–18 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt will share their experiences in a new blog on the Climate Change Institute website. The blog will feature regular updates about the global climate change policy negotiations and other events happening during the United Nations Framework Convention […]
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Daniel Sandweiss, professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Maine, was featured in the November-December 2022 issue of American Scientist, the magazine, published by Sigma Xi Scientific Society, discussing a Grant in Aid of Research (GIAR) that he received almost 40 years ago as a graduate student at Cornell. “The GIAR award […]
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Tora Johnson, associate professor of GIS and chair of the Division of Environmental and Biological Sciences at the University of Maine at Machias, spoke to Maine Public about plans for a new dike-bridge on the Middle River. Johnson has been watching the dike for years, and mapping local sea level rise. And she witnessed firsthand […]
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Reuters interviewed Sean Birkel, Maine state climatologist and assistant professor with a joint appointment in University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the UMaine Climate Change Institute, about winter ticks that have thrived in Maine’s warmer winters and last year killed 90% of the state’s moose calves. Birkel explained that the warming climate has shortened the […]
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Maine Public, News Center Maine and Bangor Daily News reported that nine University of Maine and University of Maine School of Law faculty and graduate students will attend the proceedings of the United Nations climate summit known as the 27th Conference of the Parties, or COP27, in Egypt next month. Cindy Isenhour, associate professor of […]
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