The Sun Journal spoke with Richard Kent, an associate professor in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Maine, about his new book, “Words of a Mountain.” The book is a collection of essays, poems and photographs in celebration of the small-town ski area of Black Mountain and the surrounding community […]
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A Kennebec Journal editorial titled “Oversight of Maine lakes shouldn’t falter,” cited information from former University of Maine graduate student Ian McCullough’s study on water clarity in Maine lakes. The study found lake water clarity, particularly in the northeastern and western lake regions, decreased consistently from 2005 to 2010.
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The Portland Press Herald published an Op-Ed written by Jeffrey Thaler, University of Maine’s first visiting professor of energy policy, law and ethics. The piece, “To dismiss climate change is to ignore its insidious effects in Maine,” focuses on climate change and evidence that a reliance on fossil fuels is hurting the state’s economy.
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Former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell spoke with the Bangor Daily News in the lobby of Hauck Auditorium at the University of Maine following the Sen. George J. Mitchell Lecture on Sustainability by Jane Lubchenco, a marine ecologist, environmental scientist and the first female administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Mitchell, who once […]
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Charles McKay, a clinical intern and graduate assistant at the University of Maine Counseling Center and Touchstone Resources, spoke with The Maine Edge about the organization’s Out of the Darkness suicide prevention walk slated Sunday, Sept. 29. The walk is part of the group’s ongoing efforts to raise suicide awareness.
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Nicolle Litrrell, a University of Maine women’s studies educator and Belfast filmmaker, spoke with the Bangor Daily News about an informational meeting she’s co-hosting on how the possibility of licensing home birth midwives could affect women’s birth options and rights. “MamaBaby, Midwives and the Law” will be held 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 28 at the […]
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The Associated Press previewed the Sen. George J. Mitchell Lecture on Sustainability at the University of Maine on Wednesday, Sept. 25. Jane Lubchenco, a marine ecologist, environmental scientist and the first female administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), will deliver a lecture titled “Science Serving Society: Achieving Real-World Solutions.” The Houston Chronicle, […]
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Adrienne Leppold, a Ph.D. student in Rebecca Holberton’s Lab of Avian Biology at the University of Maine, spoke with Down East magazine about her research on songbird migration in the Gulf of Maine. Leppold and Holberton are among more than two dozen researchers in the U.S. and Canada who are working together through the Northeast […]
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WVII (Channel 7) reported a seismometer at the University of Maine detected a deadly earthquake in Pakistan. Alice Kelley, an assistant research professor at UMaine’s Climate Change Institute, told WVII it took 13 minutes for the first wave from Pakistan to reach Maine.
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Former University of Maine graduate student Ian McCullough’s study of water clarity in Maine lakes was cited in a Portland Press Herald story about lake quality decline. The paper covered the Natural Resources Council of Maine’s report titled “Troubled Waters” that indicates programs to protect lakes have been eliminated due to cuts in staffing and […]
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