The website Smartmeters has an item about last week’s Haskell/IEEE Energy Conference, which was held at UMaine and included representatives from UMaine who discussed the benefits, opportunities and challenges of the smart grid and energy conservation. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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A story in Foster’s Daily Democrat newspaper of New Hampshire about the long-running South Berwick Strawberry Festival included a comment from UMaine student Andrew Leitz, who volunteered to work at the festival. He told the newspaper he was home from UMaine for the summer and was looking for something fun to do. Contact: Jessica Bloch, […]
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Comments from Rebecca Holberton, a UMaine associate professor of biology, were included in a Central Maine Morning Sentinel story about the BioDiversity Research Institute, a Maine-based center known for its research on environmental threats to birds and other wildlife. Holberton, who leads the Northeast Regional Migration Monitoring Network and collaborates with BRI, commented on the […]
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A Bangor Daily News editorial about the proposition of a Maine Woods National Park noted the results of a survey conducted by the UMaine-based Margaret Chase Smith Center for Public Policy. The survey, conducted among residents and business owners in Piscataquis County, found among other results that most respondents would like their town to become […]
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The Lewiston Sun Journal announced upcoming food preservation workshops in Lisbon Falls, Mexico and Farmington. UMaine Cooperative Extension Educator Barbara Murphy said the workshops have become more popular recently as interest in food preservation has grown. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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Comments from Prof. Mohamed Musavi of UMaine’s electrical and computer engineering faculty were included in a Bangor Daily News report on Friday’s Haskell Energy Conference, hosted by UMaine at Wells Conference Center. Some 150 people attended the conference, which focused on “smart grid” issues and energy consumption.
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Saturday’s Bangor Daily News featured a story about UMaine research involving Prof. Steve Coghlan, a freshwater fisheries ecology expert, graduate student Rob Hogg and their colleagues. Based at a site on Brewer’s Sedgeunkedunk Stream, the researchers are studying sea lamprey and their impact on stream ecosystems.
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Maine Public Radio has posted online a recording of UMaine Prof. Paul Mayewski’s March talk, “Climate Change and the Role of Humans.” The statewide network broadcast the talk last Friday. Mayewski is director of UMaine’s Climate Change Institute.
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A Saturday front-page Bangor Daily News story described a Washington County-based UMaine bmblebee research project headed up by Prof. Frank Drummond. The project aims to help rebuild bee populations that have suffered recent declines. Researchers are studying the bees and working to develop pesticide protocols that will not harm them.
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Prof. Robert Rice of the UMaine School of Forest Resources provided comment for a Saturday Bangor Daily News story looking at current operations at the Old Town Fuel and Fiber Mill. The story points out that the mill is processing pulp at historically high levels, while also extracting byproducts and testing them in a biorefinery.
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