UMaine economist Jonathan Rubin was included a report on the Patch.com website about the National Low Carbon Fuel Standard Project, which seeks to ensure fuels of the future are cleaner and cheaper. Rubin said a low carbon fuel standard encourages innovation and diversity by harnessing market forces. The project released two reports on the low […]
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The Washington Post website ran an Associated Press story that included comments from Bob Bayer, director of UMaine’s Lobster Institute, about the rise in reports of odd-colored lobsters. Bayer said the waters off Cutler in eastern Maine were once a hotbed for blue ones, after 1,500 larvae-sized blue lobsters were released in 1990 to use […]
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Frank Drummond, a UMaine professor of insect ecology and insect pest management and a University of Maine Cooperative Extension entomologist, was interviewed for a Portland Press Herald feature story on mason bees, which are small, passive pollinators considered more effective than honey bees. Drummond, UMaine botanist Alison Dibble, Ph.D., and graduate students Kalyn Bickerman and […]
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The Hartford Courant has a story about Nick DiTaranto, a UMaine civil engineering major who is spending the summer as an intern in West Hartford, Conn., inspecting sidewalks on a bicycle. DiTaranto is close to completing the 245-mile inspection and has logged more than 700 sidewalk issues in a town database. Contact: Jessica Bloch, (207) […]
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UMaine oceanography researcher Andrew Pershing’s testimony in front of a Congressional subcommittee was mentioned in the “Washington Notebook” column in the Portland Press Herald. Pershing told the subcommittee about his research on how climate change is affecting plankton, and the possible impacts on important Gulf of Maine species such as Atlantic salmon and herring. Contact: […]
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The energy website FierceEnergy reported on recommendations for a national low carbon standard for transportation fuels from a consortium of scientists from six of the nation’s leading research institutions, including the University of Maine. UMaine economist Jonathan Rubin is a member of the National LCFS (low carbon fuel standard) Project, which released a series of […]
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Comments by Jake Ward, assistant vice president for research, economic development and government relations at the University of Maine, were included in a Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting story posted on the Bangor Daily News website about a state Department of Environmental Protection decision to allow the Old Town Fuel and Fiber pulp mill […]
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In a Bangor Daily News report on the rise in robberies at Maine pharmacies, Marcella Sorg, who directs the drug and alcohol research program at UMaine’s Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, said as efforts to rein in prescription drug abuse succeed, addicts find other ways, such as pharmacy robberies, to get the medications they seek. […]
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension marine professional and Maine Healthy Beaches program staff member Keri Lindberg, who also works with the UMaine-based Maine Sea Grant, was interviewed as part of a Maine Public Broadcasting Network “Mainewatch” feature on the state’s coastal beach monitoring program. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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Comments by Robert Bayer, direct of the University of Maine’s Lobster Institute, were included in an Associated Press report about the increasing reports of odd-colored lobsters that appeared on websites for MSNBC, CBS and the Chicago Sun-Times, among others. Comments from Bayer were also included in a three-part series of articles by the Darien Times […]
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