For generations, indigenous Wabanaki people hunted, caught fish, and harvested clams and oysters along the coast of what’s now called Maine. And they left behind middens — heaps of shells — that sometimes contain tools, ceramic shards and bones of animals. Alice Kelley and Bonnie Newsom are in a race against time and tides to […]
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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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Maine magazine detailed how a research and development team at the University of Maine printed the largest 3D object in the world. “It started as a glob of bioplastic. At the end of 72 hours, it was a 25-foot-long patrol boat weighing 5,000 pounds,” began the feature about how the University of Maine Advanced Structures […]
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Maine Public’s Speaking in Maine is sharing Paul Mayewski’s address titled “Arctic Climate Change and Maine” in December to the Mid-Coast Forum on Foreign Relations in in Camden. Mayewski, director of the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, recently led National Geographic and Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Extreme Expedition to Mount Everest. The world-renowned climate scientist […]
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A University of Maine time lapse video of a 25-foot, 5,000-pound boat being printed by a 3D printer at the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center was Maine Public’s biggest story of 2019 based on traffic volume. The Composites Center earned three Guinness World Records — for the largest printer, the largest solid […]
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Deutsche Welle, Germany’s international broadcaster, credited the Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer in its story about ocean heat waves and Australian bushfires. The article linked to the Climate Reanalyzer, which mapped the heat blob in the Pacific Ocean between New Zealand and South America. The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research described the blob […]
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In Lisa Miller and Luisa Deprez’s column in the Morning Sentinel and Kennebec Journal about Maine turning 200 years old, University of Maine assistant professor of anthropology Bonnie Newsom, a citizen of Penobscot Indian Nation, said, “People have been living here for at least 11,000 years … living along the Penobscot River for at least […]
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In its article about snowfall deficit and global temperature anomalies, The Buffalo News linked to the Climate Change Institute Climate Reanalyzer. “Even Moscow didn’t get a white Christmas, which is unusual … For most of us, shovels can remain in place and snowblowers will continue a lengthening rest,” Don Paul wrote.
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The Portland Press Herald, Bangor Daily News, News Center Maine and WABI (Channel 5) reported on the death of Chuck Peddle, a 1959 graduate of the University of Maine’s engineering program whose 1975 invention of a microprocessor paved the way for the era of personal computing. Peddle died Dec. 15 at the age of 82 at […]
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What’s it like living and doing research in the world’s most remote locations? Listen as Ron Lisnet continues his conversation with Paul Mayewski, director of the University of Maine Climate Change Institute. In Part 2 of the two-part podcast “The Maine Question,” Mayewski recalls drilling ice cores on glaciers and living in a tent for […]
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