Continued development and dissemination of outreach materials on the risks and regulations associated with moving potentially infested firewood are essential to reduce the spread of invasive forest pests, according to University of Maine researchers. How campers’ knowledge of forest insects affects the transportation of firewood is the focus of a recent study led by John […]
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The University of Maine’s Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR) has announced the recipients of the 2018–2019 Academic Year Research and Creative Activities Fellowships. The fellowships were developed to enhance and increase undergraduate student involvement in faculty-mentored research. Each fellowship provides a $1,100 award for the student to help cover costs of the project. Funding for […]
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The University of Maine’s Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR) has named the 2018–2020 Faculty Fellows Assistants. The CUGR Faculty Fellows Program supports faculty efforts toward improving undergraduate research mentoring skills, expanding curricula to include research and scholarship experiences, and developing proposals for further funding specifically involving undergraduate students. Each CUGR Fellow is provided $1,100 to […]
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Ecological traps have the potential to effectively control pest species and inhibit the spread of infectious diseases, according to a University of Maine researcher. A recently published study led by Allison Gardner, an assistant professor of arthropod vector biology at UMaine, provides new insights into how ecological traps, which occur when organisms show preference for […]
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The Portland Press Herald interviewed Jack Witham, an associate scientist in the University of Maine School of Forest Resources, and Malcolm Hunter, a professor of wildlife ecology at UMaine, for the article, “Seeing the forest for the trees at the Holt Research Forest in Arrowsic.” A research center currently funded by the Maine Timber Research […]
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Mainebiz cited a presentation from the University of Maine School of Forest Resources in an article about a new addition to the Dexter-based Tri-County Technical Center’s commercial driver’s license training program. The new program, focused on wood products driving, is in partnership with members of the logging industry and aimed at high school students, who […]
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The Maine Mass Timber Event, a daylong conference focused on established and emerging cost-effective mass timber construction technologies that are growing in popularity nationwide and around the globe, will be held Oct. 11 at the University of Maine, offered by UMaine’s Maine Mass Timber Commercialization Center in partnership with WoodWorks – Wood Products Council. The […]
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A coalition working to boost Maine’s forest economy announced its action plan at the University of Maine on Sept. 25. Forest Opportunity Roadmap/Maine (FOR/Maine), a coalition working to diversify the state’s wood products businesses, attract capital investments, and develop greater economic prosperity for communities impacted by recent mill closures, announced a plan to grow Maine’s […]
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A team of University of Maine researchers has been awarded $1.5 million from the National Science Foundation to examine the relationships among the spread of mosquito-transmitted diseases, perceptions of mosquito-borne disease risk and human travel, including domestic and international tourism. The five-year project, “Coupled Dynamics of Tourism and Mosquito-Borne Disease Transmission in the Americas,” is […]
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Aaron Weiskittel, an associate professor of forest biometrics and modeling and the Irving chair of forest ecosystem management at the University of Maine, was quoted in a CBC report about faster tree growth on Crown plantations, or replanted conservation land, in New Brunswick, Canada. A recent decision was made to place conservation protection on 150,000 […]
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