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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Eos reported on a study led by Dominic Winski, a faculty member with the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, that documents seasonal sea salt and sea ice variability in a South Pole ice core that reflects changes over the last 11,400 years. The study was published in Geophysical Research Letters.
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The Penobscot Bay Pilot and The Penobscot Times shared a University of Maine news release highlighting a study of phytoplankton’s role in carbon cycling in the North Atlantic. University of Maine School of Marine Sciences faculty Emmanuel Boss, Lee Karp-Boss and Margaret Estapa, and UMaine research associate Sean O’Neill are part of a research expedition seeking to […]
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Cindy Isenhour, a University of Maine associate professor, spoke with the Associated Press and New Hampshire Public Radio’s WBUR about donations of unusable items to charity thrift shops. WCVB (Channel 5 in Boston), WPLG (Channel 10 in Miami), the Portland Press Herald, The Middletown Press, The Salem News and the Seattle Times shared the AP story.
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Amalia Harrington, a Maine Sea Grant marine Extension associate at the University of Maine, collaborated with other scientists in the National Sea Grant American Lobster Initiative (ALI) to publish a report detailing how warming waters impact lobsters. The researchers compiled a suite of recently published scientific articles and made the information accessible to the nonscientific community. “A Fishery in […]
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