Jonathan Rubin, director of the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center at the University of Maine, is profiled in the latest edition of TR News, the bimonthly magazine of the Transportation Research Board (TRB), one of seven major programs of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. At TRB, Rubin chairs the Environment and Energy […]
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Susan Elias and Griffin Dill were sources for a Portland Press Herald piece about the 29 percent decrease in Lyme disease cases this year in Maine. The state recorded 1,310 Lyme cases through Dec. 27, 2018, down from 1,852 (an all-time high) in 2017, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. “The […]
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Cynthia Isenhour, a professor of anthropology and climate change at the University of Maine, spoke with the Portland Press Herald for an article about a Maine man who spent a year without shopping for anything other than basic necessities. Nearly a decade ago, Isenhour wrote her dissertation on Swedish consumers who tried to stop shopping. […]
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Sarah Nelson, director of the Ecology and Environmental Sciences program and associate research professor in watershed biogeochemistry at the University of Maine, spoke with Eos for an article about winter weather whiplash, or unusual and unexpected changes in weather, like a false spring in the dead of winter. Whiplash events can affect ecosystems that are […]
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Rick Wahle was a source for a piece in The Politic about the impact of climate change on lobsters in Long Island Sound, where the crustacean population has reached historically low levels, and continues to dip. In 1998, Long Island Sound fisheries hauled in 3.7 million pounds of lobster. In 2015, they yielded 200,000 pounds. […]
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Tori Jackson and Eric Gallandt were sources, and the Maine Climate and Agriculture Network was referenced, in a multifaceted Bangor Daily News story about climate change as it relates to agriculture. The Maine Climate and Agriculture Network indicates the average length of the growing season in the state is 12–14 days longer than it was […]
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Phys.org, an internet news portal that carries science developments, ran a University of Maine media release about glacial deposits on Mercury. James Fastook, a UMaine professor of computer science and a Climate Change Institute researcher, studied the accumulation and flow of ice on Mercury, and how glacial deposits on the smallest planet in the solar […]
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The processes that led to glaciation at the cratered poles of Mercury, the planet closest to the sun, have been modeled by a University of Maine-led research team. James Fastook, a UMaine professor of computer science and Climate Change Institute researcher, and James Head and Ariel Deutsch of Brown University, studied the accumulation and flow […]
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Forbes quoted Andrew Thomas, a professor in the University of Maine School of Marine Sciences, and Andrew Pershing, an associate professor in the UMaine Climate Change Institute and chief scientific officer at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute, in an article about ocean heat waves and the Gulf of Maine. The Gulf of Maine is […]
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Sean Birkel, Maine state climatologist and a research assistant professor at the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, and Andrew Pershing, an associate professor in the Climate Change Institute and chief scientific officer at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute, were recent guests on Maine Public’s “Maine Calling” radio show. The show’s topic was the […]
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