Climate Change

Birkel discusses June Down East rainstorm with BDN

Sean Birkel, University of Maine research assistant professor and Maine’s state climatologist, spoke with the Bangor Daily News about an intense rainstorm in early June and its relation with climate change. “Three to four inches in a few hours certainly falls in the category of an extreme event,” he said. “While this was a weather […]

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Olechnowicz talks with Down East about fire management in Maine

Casey Olechnowicz, a Ph.D. student in the School of Forest Resources at the University of Maine, spoke with Down East magazine about using prescribed burns to reduce fire danger in Maine. Olechnowicz notes that resistance to prescribed burning often reflects a lack of trust between the public and the agency conducting the burn.

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A large black coral along the edge of a very steep cliff that was heavily encrusted with coral and sponges.

Waller to lead NOAA exploration of underwater mountains

This summer, Rhian Waller will return to an area of the Atlantic Ocean that she last explored 16 years ago. And she’s inviting everyone interested in the deep sea and deep sea animals to watch the underwater discoveries with her in real time. In 2005, Waller was a postdoctoral fellow at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution […]

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UMaine researchers study how changing rainfall patterns could affect strawberries

University of Maine researchers are studying how changes in rainfall patterns caused by climate change could affect strawberries in the Northeast.  Principal investigator Rachel Schattman, an assistant professor of sustainable agriculture, and her research team built a precipitation and cropping simulator to assess the effects of four possible rainfall scenarios on strawberries and other specialty […]

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