The University of Maine Climate Change Institute and Summer University will host the first Climate Change Workshop for pre-K–12 educators this summer. “Climate Change Teaching Tools” is designed for educators to learn more about climate change and, in particular, how to bring this important subject area into the classroom in meaningful ways for students. Participants […]
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The University of Maine 2022 commencement ceremonies and celebrations for this year’s graduates and members of the classes of 2020 and 2021 will be held May 6–8 in Alfond Sports Arena. The Graduate School commencement will recognize a record number of candidates for advanced degrees on May 6. Sixty doctoral candidates will be hooded, including […]
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In an article about the impact of climate change on blueberries, the Great Lakes Echo cited a study in which University of Maine researchers heated chambers to simulate a warming climate. The article noted that when researchers tested a temperature increase of 3–5 degrees Celsius, they found that wild blueberry plants would photosynthesize less and […]
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The University of Maine’s Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR) and the Maine Space Grant Consortium (MSGC) have announced the 2022 Summer MSGC Graduate Research Fellowship Award recipients. The purpose of the MSGC fellowship and scholarship programs at UMaine is to provide research opportunities to undergraduate and graduate students in aerospace technology, space science, Earth science, […]
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Cindy Isenhour, associate professor of anthropology and climate change, spoke with Waste Dive about her research about reusable takeout containers. Isenhour worked with a graduate student to present a few possible models for reusable takeout containers to a group of 35 Maine hospitality, waste and environmental management stakeholders in fall 2021 as part of a […]
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Brie Berry, postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Anthropology, and Cindy Isenhour, associate professor of anthropology and climate change at the University of Maine, wrote an opinion column for the Bangor Daily News about how second-hand shopping could help mitigate climate change. “For example, through a five-year research project on reuse economies in Maine, […]
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With over 4 feet of annual precipitation in the Northeast United States, drought is not often considered a major factor affecting the region’s forests. But warming temperatures cause forests to dry out quicker between rains. Seedlings are especially vulnerable because their nascent root systems can’t access moisture deeper in the soil, according to a University […]
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This year’s University of Maine Presidential Awards recognize outstanding achievement in teaching in Earth and climate sciences, research in the biophysics of flow-related biological and physiological functions in humans and animals, and impactful community engagement in nursing, particularly during the past two years of the pandemic. Karl Kreutz, director and professor of the School of […]
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Aaron Putnam, associate professor, and George Denton, professor, both in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences, and the Climate Change Institute, collaborated with international scientists to write an article about the Zealandia Switch for The Conversation. Putnam, Denton and their collaborators are researching New Zealand’s climate history, and have postulated a new mechanism that […]
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Jim Dill, University of Maine Cooperative Extension pest management specialist, was quoted in New Hampshire Magazine in an article about pests like the browntail moth caterpillars. “Climate change in the winters can be a dramatic force in the population dynamics,” Dill said.
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