Robert Steneck, a professor in the University of Maine School of Marine Sciences, and Keri Kaczor, the environmental literacy and workforce development program manager at Maine Sea Grant, spoke with the Bangor Daily News for an article titled “The environmentalists at the heart of Maine’s booming oyster business.” Steneck said oysters sequester carbon when they […]
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The Bangor Daily News and Salmon Business featured research at the University of Maine Center for Cooperative Aquaculture Research (CCAR) looking at using lumpfish to combat sea lice on salmon farms. Steve Eddy, director of CCAR and lead investigator on the project, said UMaine researchers have been learning to get lumpfish to spawn and then […]
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The Boothbay Register reported that Sarah Risley, a University of Maine graduate student based at the Darling Marine Center, will lead a team of high school students in green crab surveys this fall as part of an ongoing community science research program in the Damariscotta River estuary. The data that students collect will be used […]
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The Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine will host a talk about the unanticipated consequences of successful seal conservation in the Gulf of Maine at 3 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 26. In this talk, “Out of Our Depth: Interdisciplinary science for marine mammal conservation,” Kristina Cammen, an assistant […]
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Phys.org and Spectrum News reported that a new study from the University of Maine shows how to reduce the costs associated with a proposed new method of using kelp farming to remove excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
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Cost-effective carbon dioxide removal technologies play a key role in combating climate change. A team of researchers at the University of Maine in collaboration with Conscience Bay Research have developed a kelp aquaculture model for the Gulf of Maine that maximizes carbon sequestration and cost effectiveness of this natural carbon sink. Wild macroalgae is one […]
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WESA-FM (90.5 in Pittsburgh) featured Paul Mayewski, director and professor of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine and Distinguished Professor in the Schools of Earth and Climate Sciences, Marine Sciences, Policy and International Affairs, Business School and University of Maine School of Law. The segment featured Mayewski’s new book, “The Ice Chronicles: […]
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UPI interviewed Kristina Cammen, assistant professor of marine mammal science at the University of Maine, for an article about a new machine learning software designed to recognize the faces of individual seals that could help scientists answer questions about the social behavior, site fidelity and movement of harbor seals. Cammen commented on the recovery of […]
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Jaclyn Robidoux, marine extension associate with Maine Sea Grant at the University of Maine, was featured as a panelist on Maine Public’s show “Maine Calling” for a segment about the state’s role in the future of the global seaweed industry.
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The larval health of an Antarctic cold-water coral species may be resistant to warming water temperatures, a University of Maine study finds, bringing new hope for the climate change resilience of deep-sea ecosystems in the Western Antarctic Peninsula. The past few decades have shown unprecedented levels of warming, particularly in the Earth’s polar regions. The […]
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