In an article about the costs the wild blueberry producers will have to incur for irrigation in light of hotter and drier summers, the Bangor Daily News cited information from University of Maine Cooperative Extension showing that long-term weather trends suggest that blueberry fields will get sufficient water in August in only one year out […]
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Helping decarbonize the plastic chemicals industry by developing a new reactor that relies on solar energy will be the focus of a Department of Energy (DOE)-funded project led by the University of Maine. Justin Lapp, a UMaine assistant professor of mechanical engineering, is spearheading the effort to create the novel thermochemical reactor that could eliminate […]
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Cost-effective carbon dioxide removal technologies play a key role in combating climate change. A team of researchers at the University of Maine in collaboration with Conscience Bay Research have developed a kelp aquaculture model for the Gulf of Maine that maximizes carbon sequestration and cost effectiveness of this natural carbon sink. Wild macroalgae is one […]
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WESA-FM (90.5 in Pittsburgh) featured Paul Mayewski, director and professor of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine and Distinguished Professor in the Schools of Earth and Climate Sciences, Marine Sciences, Policy and International Affairs, Business School and University of Maine School of Law. The segment featured Mayewski’s new book, “The Ice Chronicles: […]
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Bradfield Lyon, a research professor at the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, spoke to the Guardian about this September’s record-breaking heat waves in California. “By mid-century, the [spatial] size of heatwaves in the US are expected to increase between about 50% to 80% from what they are in the current climate. The frequency will […]
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The journal Science published a perspective paper by University of Maine researchers Daniel Sandweiss and Kirk Maasch about how El Niño influences the presence of fauna and human predation of it. In their piece, Sandweiss, a professor in the Anthropology Department and Climate Change Institute, and Maasch, a professor in the School of Earth and […]
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The University of Maine’s School of Policy and International Affairs (SPIA) and the Climate Change Institute (CCI) will partner with the American Security Project (ASP) and Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRCM) for an in-person public panel “Consistent and Compelling: Maine’s Model for Mitigating Climate Change” 4–5 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 14, at Buchanan Alumni […]
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In an article about the retreat of the Thwaites glacier, Popular Science cited a 1973 paper by Terry Hughes, professor emeritus at the University of Maine School of Earth and Climate Sciences and Climate Change Institute, where he famously asked the question that scientists are still asking today: “Is The West Antarctic Ice Sheet Disintegrating?”
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Registration is open for an in-person professional development program, Going Green: Sustainability in Business. The online workshop, part of the University of Maine Hutchinson Center’s professional development program, will be held from 8:30 a.m–4:30 p.m. on Oct. 21 at the Hutchinson Center in Belfast. This workshop will help participants understand current business sustainability strategies and […]
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The Bluefield Daily Telegraph (Bluefield, West Virginia) noted University of Maine associate professor at the Climate Change Institute and the School of Earth and Climate Sciences Andrei Kurbatov’s role in a study to improve data practices and digital systems for researchers who work with material produced by explosive volcanic eruptions.
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