NECN reported researchers at the University of Maine are studying ice cores from the world’s tallest mountain as part of National Geographic and Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Extreme Expedition to Mount Everest. Each layer of ice shows temperature and precipitation over the years, exposing how the climate was changing. Nearly 1 billion people in the Himalayas […]
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The second meeting of the Maine Climate Council on Jan. 29 in Augusta will focus on a report from the Science and Technical Subcommittee about the effects of climate change in the state. The subcommittee’s work in the past four months provides the initial scientific basis for the ongoing deliberations of the various working groups, […]
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Jacquelyn Gill’s “Warm Regards” was one of five nominees for “Best Green Podcast” at the iHeartRadio Podcast Awards 2020 on Friday, Jan. 17 in Los Angeles. And the University of Maine paleoecologist expects this coming season’s podcast will be even better. When the podcast began in 2016, it was the only one about climate change. […]
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The Sandwich Enterprise talked with University of Maine doctoral student Heather Clifford about her experience on the National Geographic and Rolex Perpetual Planet Everest Expedition. “The expedition overall was quite an incredible experience; having little travel experience I had quite a few firsts,” said the 2011 graduate of Sandwich High School. “First time being in […]
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Three Maine Science Festival Pop-Up Events are planned for January, ahead of the full festival March 18–22. Science on Tap Hits the Road: Fermentation Edition, 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 23, Orchard Girls Cidery, 375 Main St., Kingfield. Jennifer Perry, University of Maine assistant professor of food microbiology, will give an overview of fermentation, and Orchard […]
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The Penobscot Times shared the University of Maine media release about the free, public exhibit “Maine’s Threatened Shell Middens: Losing a Link to Understanding our Past” in Hudson Museum’s Minsky Culture Lab. For generations, indigenous Wabanki people left heaps of harvested clams and oysters shells along the coast. Materials in the piles provide opportunities to […]
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University of Maine faculty members and students conducted fascinating and impactful research important to Maine and the world in 2019. This roundup of stories from July to December covers 3D printing, eDNA, obesity, lobster resilience, and sustainable aquaculture. And here’s a link to research and news highlights from January to June. All UMaine news stories […]
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Regulations and financial resources that influence how people fish have as great an effect on how they deal with change as where and how they fish, found University of Maine Darling Marine Center researchers Kara Pellowe and Heather Leslie. The ecologists examined how fishermen adapt to environmental and economic change in Baja California Sur, Mexico. […]
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CentralMaine.com reported Ivan Fernandez, Distinguished Maine Professor in the Climate Change Institute and School of Forest Resources at the University of Maine, will speak during a celebration of a conservation milestone at the Maine Agricultural Trades Show in Augusta on Jan. 15. Maine Woodland Owners announced that it has permanently conserved more than 10,000 acres […]
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The Washington Post interviewed Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie, a postdoctoral research fellow with the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, for an article about her research on bird arrivals in Maine. The arrival dates of migratory birds in Maine may not be shifting fast enough to keep up with earlier leaf-out and flowering induced by a […]
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