UMaine News

A Village Soup story notes that Paul Holman of the UMaine political science faculty will give the fall and winter season opening talk for the 2011 Camden Conference.  Holman’s presentation, “The Kremlin in Asia,” is scheduled for Tuesday Sept. 14, 6:30-8 p.m. at the Belfast Free Library.  The conference them for 2011 is “The Challenges […]

Comments from UMaine political scientist Mark Brewer were featured in a Wednesday Maine Public Radio story about the race for Maine’s 2nd Congressional District seat.  Incumbent U.S. Rep. Michael Michaud faces a challenge from Republican challenger Jason Levesque.

Todd Gabe of the UMaine School of Economics faculty spoke on Wednesday morning with WVOM radio’s Ric Tyler and George Hale, discussing his research paper about the potential economic impact of a casino in Maine’s Oxford County.  Maine’s electorate will vote on a proposal on that issue in November.

UMaine hazing experts Elizabeth Allan and Mary Madden were interviewed for a Tuesday WUSF radio segment based on the Florida investigation into alleged hazing involving a University of South Florida fraternity.  Allan and Madden shared perspectives from their research, which includes the most extensive survey of college hazing behaviors that has ever been conducted.

Science website Physorg.com posted a report about the work Climate Change Institute scientists Paul Mayewski and Andrei Kurbatov did in researching the presence of nanodiamonds in the Greenland ice sheet. The discovery of the nanodiamonds has added to a controversy in the scientific community about a possible extraterrestrial impact event that could shed light on […]

New research, reported on the National Science Foundation Web site investigates a phenomenon that saw Europe experience a period of unusually cold weather at the end of the last Ice Age, at the same time the Southern Hemisphere was experiencing warming.  The new study, published in Nature and including UMaine Climate Change Institute scientists George […]

Contact: Catherine Schmitt, Maine Sea Grant, 581-1434, catherine.schmitt@umit.maine.edu PORTLAND, ME – Active waterfronts fuel coastal economies from Maine to Alaska, but demographic and financial changes threaten to transform America’s working shorelines. On Thursday, September 30, US Representative Chellie Pingree will charge working waterfront advocates with creating a national strategy for protecting and enhancing access for […]

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.

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 […]

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.