The Portland Press Herald interviewed Richard Wahle, a professor in the University of Maine School of Marine Sciences and director of UMaine’s Lobster Institute, for an article about his recent research on settlement of juvenile lobsters. The American Lobster Settlement Index, a program hosted by Wahle’s lab, has monitored the number of baby lobsters that […]
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The Bangor Daily News spoke to Clay Kirby, an associate scientist and insect diagnostician with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, and Jim Dill, a pest management specialist with UMaine Extension, for the article “What you can do when bugs and rodents move in for the winter.” When temperatures begin to drop with the arrival […]
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VillageSoup previewed a Grant Writing Certificate Program Oct. 1–5 at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center in Belfast. The intensive program is intended for nonprofit leaders, executive directors, municipal officials, board members and others interested in crafting high-quality grant proposals for their organizations, VillageSoup reported. The cost of the program is $495; need-based scholarships are […]
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WVII (Channel 7) reported the University of Maine partnered with the Maine Forest Rangers to conduct a controlled burn in the Penobscot Experimental Forest in Bradley on Sept. 17. Two plots of land were intentionally set ablaze as a training exercise for local firefighters, to test new equipment and for sustainability research. Researchers are investigating […]
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Alexander More, a historian and climate scientist at Harvard University and the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, was quoted in the New York Times article, “Europe’s triumphs and troubles are written in Swiss ice.” As plague swept through Europe in the mid-1300s, wiping out more than a third of the region’s population, […]
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Jim Dill, a pest management specialist with University of Maine Cooperative Extension, spoke with the Bangor Daily News for the article, “Hungry, hungry hornworms are the bane of Maine gardeners.” “Things will be going along great,” Dill said. “Then all of a sudden it’s like, what happened to my tomato plants?” If the evidence presents […]
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Maine Public interviewed Heather Leslie, director of the University of Maine Darling Marine Center in Walpole, about a new ocean conservation database she helped create. Leslie worked with a team of researchers to design the Conservation Planning Database after realizing there was no central location to share information about ocean conservation, Maine Public reported. “This […]
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The Franklin Journal quoted Judy Smith, a community education assistant with University of Maine Cooperative Extension, in a report about the Farmington Fair’s opening day. The annual fair opened Sept. 16 and involved many events, including children’s activities. There was a costume contest for 3- and 4-year-olds, open to all children and not just 4-H […]
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NJ.com and The Ripon Advance cited a 2008 University of Maine study in articles about U.S. Rep. Leonard Lance of New Jersey becoming the lead sponsor of the Report and Educate About Campus Hazing Act. The bipartisan legislation will require incidents of hazing to be reported as part of a college’s annual crime report so that […]
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The Portland Press Herald mentioned a potato variety developed by the University of Maine in the article “Pack your potato skin like a jacket, English pub-style.” The article lists the Caribou Russet, a variety developed by UMaine and released for the seed market, as a good variety of baking potato to use in an English-style […]
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