A University of Maine marine geologist and Ph.D. student will participate in the first webinar of the Bangor Daily News Climate Conversation series at 4 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 13. “BDN Climate Conversations: Coastal Resilience and Sea Level Rise,” will feature Joseph Kelley, a professor of marine geology with the School of Earth and Climate Sciences […]
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The College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture announced that Jacquelyn Gill, associate professor of terrestrial paleoecology, Kelly Jaksa, lecturer and coordinator of the Bachelor of Social Work program, and Brian McGill, professor of biological sciences, have been recognized with faculty awards for 2020. Gill received the Outstanding Public Service Award, Jaksa was recognized with […]
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The Guardian interviewed Esperanza Stancioff, climate change educator for University of Maine Cooperative Extension and Maine Sea Grant, about changes in the lobster industry. Stancioff said that over time the center of Maine’s lobster fishery has shifted from Thomaston to Stonington and Canada. Lobsters also have been moving farther offshore, requiring fishermen to obtain an […]
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The Boothbay Register advanced Heather Leslie’s webinar at 10:30 a.m. Aug. 7 about strategies to combat climate change proposed by a Maine Climate Council working group. Leslie, director of the Darling Marine Center, will discuss the climate change initiatives recommended by the Coastal and Marine Working Group, which she serves as co-leader. The virtual talk […]
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Heather Leslie will present a webinar titled “Climate science and action for Maine’s coast and coastal communities” at 10:30 a.m. Friday, Aug. 7. Leslie is the director of the Darling Marine Center and an associate professor in the School of Marine Sciences. Since September 2019, she has co-led the Coastal and Marine Working Group of […]
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Sustainability experts from the University of Maine will advise a governor’s council on how efforts to combat climate change could support historically underrepresented populations in the state. The Maine Climate Council tapped the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions to assist with its efforts to improve equity outcomes of the state Climate Action […]
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Water is essential for life. And Anne Lausier and Shaleen Jain say a reevaluation and refocusing of the ways that water resources are managed are urgently needed. Equity should be a foundational tenet of management, they say, especially today when there are unprecedented pressures on Earth’s freshwater resources and ecosystems. Toward that goal, Lausier and […]
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Ivan Fernandez, professor with the Climate Change Institute, told Civil Eats — a news source about the American food system — that 2020 has borne out a pattern of longer, drier summers punctuated by more intense precipitation events. “We’re living with a bit of whiplash this year, with both drought as well as extreme precipitation […]
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The Wiscasset Newspaper ran a University of Maine Darling Marine Center media release about Margaret Estapa’s free webinar “Untangling the links between ocean life, the global carbon cycle, and future climate” at 10:30 a.m. Friday, July 24. Estapa, now an assistant professor of geosciences at Skidmore College, will join UMaine later this summer as an […]
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The Associated Press interviewed Joseph Kelley, a professor of marine geology at the University of Maine, about the threat rising sea levels pose to salt marshes. A group of scientists led by Neil Ganju, a Woods Hole, Massachusetts-based oceanographer, found that four of the country’s coastal salt marshes would be gone in 350 years, and […]
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