UMaine News

Contact: Mary Jane Perry, (207) 592-0317 Using the latest in optical sensor technology, marine scientists from the University of Maine and the University of Washington have achieved unprecedented documentation of a critical phenomenon that occurs during the spring phytoplankton blooms in the North Atlantic that feeds the deep ocean and contributes to carbon dioxide sequestering.

Contact: Kristen Andresen, 207-581-3742 At the beginning of the fall semester, first-year students in the School of Biology and Ecology get a one-of-a-kind introduction to life at UMaine: the Schoodic Experience. This year, on Aug. 24-26, students explored plants, insects, birds and aquatic ecology in this incredible outdoor classroom while getting to know their classmates […]

The effects of low levels of arsenic — like those in drinking water — on a healthy innate immune response and one compromised by the gene mutation that causes cystic fibrosis will be the focus of research at the University of Maine funded by a $1.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.

It is widely held that coral bleaching occurs when temperatures and solar radiation are high, overwhelming antioxidant defenses in the algal endosymbionts and their coral hosts. Little understood are the biological mechanisms underlying such destabilization under stressful conditions. An international research team led by marine biologist Malcolm Shick and chemical oceanographer Mark Wells of the […]

University of Maine and state entomologists are using a novel method — using insects to track insects — in the statewide surveillance for the destructive emerald ash borer, which has devastated ash forests in 15 northeastern states, parts of Canada and now threatens Maine. They’re using a little black ground-nesting wasp — Cerceris fumipennis — […]