Brian McGill, a professor of biological science at the University of Maine, was named a lifetime honorary fellow of the Ecological Society of America. The society established its fellowship program in 2012 with the goal of honoring its members and supporting their competitiveness and advancement to leadership positions in the society, at their institutions, and […]
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The Penobscot Bay Pilot and Republican Journal reported registration is open for the World Climate Negotiations from 5–8 p.m. May 9 at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center in Belfast. The free, interactive simulation will be led by Anna McGinn and Will Kochtitzky, UMaine graduate students who attended the annual United Nations Climate Change Conference in […]
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The County covered a talk about climate change and the last ice age by Aaron Putnam, the George H. Denton Assistant Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Maine Climate Change Institute. Putnam spoke at the Geological Society of Maine’s annual spring meeting on April 5 at the University of Maine at Presque Isle […]
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VillageSoup reported Sonja Birthisel, a postdoctoral research associate in the University of Maine School of Forest Resources, will give a talk about how climate change is affecting Maine farms at noon April 16 at Merryspring Nature Center in Camden. Birthisel will draw on interviews she is conducting with farmers and crop advisers as part of […]
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Maine Impact Week celebrates University of Maine faculty, students, community and their contributions to the social and economic advancement of the state and beyond. The public is invited to attend multiple events highlighting the impact of research and creative work produced by Maine’s research university the week of April 8–13. The featured event is the […]
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The Ellsworth American quoted Cynthia Isenhour, an assistant professor of anthropology and climate change at the University of Maine, in an article about the opening of Fiberight waste processing facility in Hampden, which will include recycling. Fiberight will have a sorting process that will be able to recover recyclables that have been thrown in the […]
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University of Maine graduate students whose research focuses on climate change effects and adaptation in agriculture, forestry and aquaculture attended a workshop at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute in Portland, Maine on March 19, capping a yearlong project offered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Northeast Climate Hub network. The project, Northeast Graduate Student […]
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Thirty-four University of Maine faculty have received tenure and/or promotion. The faculty members were nominated by UMaine President Joan Ferrini-Mundy based on a peer and administrative review of their successful teaching, research and public service, and approved by the University of Maine System Board of Trustees. “We are extremely proud of our world-class faculty who […]
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“Climate and Food” is the theme of the sixth annual Human Dimensions of Climate Change film series that kicks off March 26 at the University of Maine. Each of the three films will begin at 6 p.m. in Classroom 1 of Fogler Library and will be followed by a discussion. “Just Eat It: A Food […]
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Aaron Putnam, George H. Denton assistant professor in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences at the University of Maine, wrote an obituary for Wallace “Wally” Smith Broecker that was published in Science magazine. Putnam wrote Broecker, who died Feb. 18 at the age of 87, was “one of the most influential Earth scientists of […]
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