The Boston Globe published an opinion piece by Michael Socolow, an associate professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the University of Maine, titled “Trump is trapped in the moment.”
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Jim Dill, a pest management specialist with University of Maine Cooperative Extension, spoke with the Maine Public Broadcasting Network for the report, “How bad will mosquitoes and ticks be this year?” Dill said deer ticks, which escape harsh temperatures by finding warmer places to burrow, didn’t have much to cope with this winter. “I don’t […]
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Mount Desert Islander reported Heather Leslie, director of the University of Maine Darling Marine Center, will discuss coastal ecosystem conservation during the College of the Atlantic’s Human Ecology Forum at McCormick Lecture Hall in Bar Harbor at 4:10 p.m. Tuesday, April 5. Her “Sustaining Coastal Marine Systems” talk is free and open to the public. […]
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Samuel Belknap, a Ph.D. student in the Adaptation to Abrupt Climate Change NSF IGERT Fellowship program pursuing a degree in anthropology and environmental policy at the University of Maine, was quoted in the Hakai Magazine article, “A warming threat to Maine’s lobsters.” In 2012, lobstermen started showing up at Belknap’s family dock in Bristol with […]
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Paul Mayewski, director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, spoke with ClimateWire for an article about glaciologist Claude Lorius. Over a half-century beginning in 1956 when Antarctica was a scientific mystery, Lorius assembled proof from the continent showing that humans are warming the planet by pumping out carbon at rates never […]
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Global Aquaculture Advocate reported that since Daniel Makrinos, a researcher at the University of Maine, began studying the salmonid disease salmonid rickettsial septicaemia (SRS) in February, he has been “entrenched” in researching the destructive bacterium that causes it. Makrinos has been studying published research and growing samples in his lab to greater understand, and hopefully […]
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The Maine Edge advanced scheduled public star shows in April at the University of Maine’s Emera Astronomy Center. Star shows are held throughout the month at 7 p.m. Fridays and 2 p.m. Sundays. On Fridays, viewers can see “To Space and Back.” On Sunday afternoons, younger viewers can experience “In My Backyard.” Admission to all […]
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Seacoast Online reported University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s statewide Maine Harvest for Hunger program in York County broke all previous records in 2015 with a harvest of 64,705 pounds. The fresh produce was distributed to 37 county donation sites, including food pantries, soup kitchens and low-income senior centers. Fosters.com also published the report.
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The Maine Edge published a University of Maine news release about “Signs of the Seasons,” a University of Maine Cooperative Extension and Maine Sea Grant program that offers multiple training sessions for those interested in identifying and recording seasonal changes in their communities in support of understanding Maine’s changing climate. Volunteers of all ages are […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported on a presentation by Kathleen Kingsbury, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and deputy managing editor of The Boston Globe. The 2015 award winner for editorial writing spoke at the Bangor Public Library as part of Pulitzer Week. To celebrate 100 years of the Pulitzer Prizes, the University of Maine’s Department of […]
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