WVII (Channel 7) reported the University of Maine is working with the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor on a project that aims to help honey and maple producers in the state. The three-year study, which was awarded $498,462 from the USDA, aims to increase knowledge of the production and marketing challenges and opportunities […]
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Mainebiz cited information from the American Lobster Settlement Index in the article, “Lobster catch down, prices remain steady.” Maine’s lobster catch is lower than recent years at this time of the season, but that hasn’t translated into higher prices for consumers, according to the article. Earlier this year, findings of an international monitoring program of […]
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Mount Desert Islander reported University of Maine professors Kim Huguenard and Laura Rickard will talk about estuaries and storm surge at the Somes-Meynell Wildlife Sanctuary in Mount Desert at 7 p.m. July 20. During “Sensing Storm Surge: A Citizen Science Approach to Measuring Storm Surge-Estuarine Interaction in Maine,” Huguenard, an assistant professor in ocean and […]
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Senior Gathering events hosted by the University of Maine Cooperative Extension were the focus of a recent Morning Sentinel column. The Senior Gathering, designed to provide a place for older adults to socialize, play games, take part in activities such as Make a Soup Day, share refreshments and sometimes hear a speaker, is held 1–3:30 […]
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Maine Sea Grant at the University of Maine was mentioned in a Scarborough Leader article about invasive red algae on Pine Point Beach. Last summer, residents of the beach community asked the town council to ramp up the amount of times the beach is raked and cleaned in order to remove the red algae, Heterosiphonia […]
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Paul Mayewski, director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, was mentioned in a Morning Sentinel article about the opening of the 20th Maine International Film Festival in Waterville. The festival opened July 14 with a showing of “The Sounding,” a psychological mystery about a woman living on an island off the […]
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CBC News cited statistics from the Lobster Institute at the University of Maine for a report about a calico lobster that was caught off the coast of Canada’s Prince Edward Island. Calico lobsters, known for their uniquely colored shells and distinctive pigmentation, are anything but ordinary, the article states. According to UMaine’s Lobster Institute, the […]
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Gordon Bromley, a research assistant professor at the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, spoke with WABI (Channel 5) about an ice shelf weighing more than one trillion metric tons and measuring about the size of Delaware that recently broke off from Antarctica. Bromley, who has taken multiple research trips to the continent, said a […]
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Edward Grew, a research professor of geological sciences at the University of Maine, was quoted in the Business Insider article, “Humans have caused surprising changes to the planet that will be visible billions of years from now.” Grew helped write a recent paper that cataloged for the first time 208 new minerals that humans have […]
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Kathy Savoie, a University of Maine Cooperative Extension educator and professor, spoke with the Bangor Daily News about how to safely ferment food at home. As products like kimchi, kombucha and kefir gain in popularity, more people are looking to try fermentation — an age old method of food preservation ― in their home kitchens, […]
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