In an article about Maine forests serving as carbon sinks, the Bangor Daily News interviewed the University of Maine’s Ivan Fernandez, professor at the Climate Change Institute and School of Forest Resources; Dominic Winski, research assistant professor at the Climate Change Institute and School of Earth and Climate Sciences; and Daniel Hayes, associate professor of […]
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The Bangor Daily News spoke to Jean MacRae, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Maine, about PFAS in Penobscot County drinking water. Though most water districts in Penobscot County are not finding “forever chemicals” in their drinking water supplies, laboratories can’t entirely rule out their presence. MacRae said many things […]
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The San Diego Union-Tribune interviewed Habib Dagher, founding executive director of the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Laboratory, about the challenges of developing offshore wind in California. “You’re looking at some places where you’re in 2,000 or 3,000 feet of water. The East Coast leases off New York were less than 150 feet […]
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Maine Public featured research from the University of Maine about the impacts of climate change on the feeding patterns of Arctic char populations in Maine. Maine Public interviewed University of Maine graduate students Brad Erdman and Fred Seavey; Mike Kinnison, professor of evolutionary applications; and Christina Murphy, assistant professor at the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, […]
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Jessica Leahy, professor of human dimensions of natural resources at the University of Maine, spoke to the Portland Press Herald about woodbanks in Maine. Leahy, who researches wood banks, said that firewood is the only heat source for as many as half of the homes in parts of Washington County. Leahy told the PPH she […]
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In an article highlighting the impacts of climate change on Alaska and Hawaii, Yahoo News cited information from the University of Maine Climate Reanalyzer that shows temperatures in the upper third of Alaska, located inside the Arctic Circle, have been observed at an average of 11.5 degrees Fahrenheit above normal this month. Aol, WPXI-TV (Pittsburgh, […]
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National Public Radio interviewed Mark Brewer, professor of political science at the University of Maine, about Maine’s more diverse income state legislature. Brewer told NPR that increased diversity in an elected body can have a measurable impact on policy. Brewer also noted the fact that all five of the new Black lawmakers in the Maine […]
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In an article about the unusually warm winter in the Berkshires, the Berkshire Eagle cited data from the University of Maine Climate Reanalyzer showing that temperatures across the entire Arctic averaged 11.5 degrees higher than the normal temperature over the years spanning 1979–2000.
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WABI-TV (Channel 5 in Bangor) reported that Maine Business School students hosted their first Sport Business Summit at the University of Maine. “I think there’s just so much information that [comes with] these speakers have come from across the world. I think they can really shed some light on some of the students to get […]
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Michael Socolow, associate professor in the University of Maine Department of Communication and Journalism, spoke to the Observer about a bill in Congress that would require platforms like Facebook to pay news publishers when links to their articles appear on their sites. Socolow noted that in Australia, which has a similar law, Facebook and Google […]
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