WVII (Channel 7) talked with Rachel Schattman, a University of Maine assistant professor of sustainable agriculture, about the impact of changing rainfall patterns on strawberries in Maine. Morning Ag Clips and Horti Daily also reported on Schattman’s research.
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National Geographic spoke with Andy Pershing, an associate professor of climate change at the University of Maine, and Robert Steneck, a professor of marine sciences at UMaine about climate change in the Gulf of Maine and the impact on the lobsters and the lobster fishery.
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The Sun Journal cited a University of Maine study that revealed a connection between warmer late summer temperatures and drought and increases in the population of brown tail moth caterpillars.
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Colleagues at the Climate Change Institute are collaborating to strengthen climate education for youth in grades 5–12 in Maine. CCI faculty and staff have created the Climate Education Resources webpage to provide educators with a variety of informative materials in one place. The resources are grouped within five themes — Climate Synthesis & Overview, Climate Data […]
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The Associated Press spoke with Rafa Tasnim, a Ph.D. student of ecology and environmental sciences at the University of Maine about how rising temperatures are affecting Maine’s wild blueberry crop. Tasnim led a study of changes in temperature and precipitation in Down East Maine over the past 40 years which revealed a greater increase in […]
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Ivan Fernandez, a professor of soil science and forest resources at the University of Maine, talked with WMTW (Channel 8 in Portland) about the impacts of climate change on agriculture in Maine including earlier harvests and earlier onset of drought and arrival of pests.
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A report compiled by Marcella Sorg, a University of Maine research professor at the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, was cited by WAGM (Channel 8 in Presque Isle) in its “Intervention Aroostook” segment. According to the report, as cited in the story, there were 132 overdose deaths in the state in the second quarter last […]
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WGME (Channel 13 in Portland) and the Bangor Daily News cited a University of Maine study that discovered the invasive European earthworm in two forest sites in Northern Maine. The study by research associate Joshua Puhlick, professor of soil sciences and forest resources Ivan Fernandez and assistant professor of forest ecosystem physiology Jay Wason was […]
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The Laconia Daily Sun interviewed Marcella Sorg, about her work as a forensic anthropologist for Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and Rhode Island. “I enjoy problem solving, each case is unique,” said Sorg, a University of Maine research professor at the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center who also works with the Climate Change Institute. “I think […]
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CBS News talked with Andrew Pershing, a University of Maine associate professor with the Climate Change Institute, about warming trends in the northern Atlantic Ocean for a story about the Warming Stripes model of climate change. Pershing notes that the waters off the East Coast of the U.S., including the Gulf of Maine, are warming […]
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