Working Waterfront features a story about tracking methods employed by scientists use to track the migration of sea-run fish species. The story is based, in part, on research by UMaine professors Michael Kinnison and Gayle Zydlewski, and it includes comments from Zydlewski. Catherine Schmitt of the Maine Sea Grant program at UMaine co-authored the story.
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Contact: Paul Mayewski, (207) 581-3019 or paul.mayewski@maine.edu University of Maine volcanologist Andrei Kurbatov and glaciologist Paul Mayewski, along with 21 other scientists, coauthored a scientific paper released late last month that details the discovery of a layer of nanodiamonds in the Greenland ice sheet, which has added to a controversy in the scientific community about […]
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UMaine’s Lobster Institute Executive Director Robert Bayer tells WABI the blue lobster recently hauled in by a Belfast lobsterman could be one in up to five million.
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Newsday talks to UMaine marine archaeologist Warren Riess about some of the items found in an old ship he excavated earlier this summer from the World Trade Center site in New York City.
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UMaine research scientist Andrew Pershing’s research on carbon sequestering in whales was posted on the science website Physorg.com. Pershing says whaling and fishing has altered the ability of oceans to store and sequester carbon.
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Contact: Charlie Slavin, Dean of the Honors College, 207.581.3262, slavin@honors.umaine.edu Keith Hutchison, Professor of Biochemistry/Molecular Biology, 207.581.2827, keithh@maine.edu ORONO — The University of Maine Honors College and the Maine IDeA Network for Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) have announced five recipients of Honors Thesis Fellowships of $2,575, and one Junior Year Research Award of $1,030. The […]
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UMaine Cooperative Extension entomologist Jim Dill is the lead resource in a Maine Public Radio story about bedbugs, which are being reported around the U.S. at levels not seen for 50 years. Dill notes that the insects have been confirmed in Maine, including Bangor and Orono. The story includes information about avoiding infestation and dealing […]
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Monday’s Portland Press Herald included a Labor Day op-ed column by labor historian and UMaine Bureau of Labor Education research associate Charles Scontras. In the column, Scontras offers perspectives on the Employee Free Choice Act, currently under Congressional consideration.
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Habib Dagher, director of UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center, was quoted in a Maine Sunday Telegram story about the future of the Ocean Energy Institute following the Aug. 8 death of its founder, Matthew Simmons. Under Simmons’ leadership, the institute has worked to promote and develop ocean-related energy initiatives in Maine, including the […]
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Comments from UMaine Cooperative Extension’s Dick Brzozowski are featured in a Kennebec Journal story about 2010’s “perfect summer for pumpkins.” Brzozowski says that vine crops thrive in hot, dry conditions, as long as they get plenty of water.
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