Outreach

Media highlight eclipse viewing via UMaine high altitude balloon

Maine Public, WVII (FOX 22/ABC 7 in Bangor), the Portland Press Herald, Spectrum News and WMTW (Channel 8 in Portland) featured a project by the University of Maine High Altitude Ballooning Group to launch a balloon during the total solar eclipse on April 8 to gather data and livestream it from the stratosphere. The balloon, […]

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UMaine to host free screening and panel discussion of ‘The Right to Read’

The ability to read is a foundational indicator of success and equality. When children learn to read, they are more likely to avoid negative outcomes such as dropping out of high school, incarceration, homelessness and unemployment later in life.  The University of Maine College of Education and Human Development’s School of Learning and Teaching, along […]

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NBC cites UMaine Climate Reanalyzer on scientist concern for ocean temperatures

A data visualization from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer was cited by NBC News in an article titled “12 months of record ocean heat has scientists puzzled and concerned.” The article stated the average sea surface temperatures are roughly 1.25 degrees Fahrenheit warmer now than from 1982-2011, an anomaly that could […]

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Media interview Laatsch about eclipse research

The Bangor Daily News, The County and News Center Maine interviewed Shawn Laatsch, director of the University of Maine Versant Power Astronomy Center, regarding the upcoming solar eclipse on April 8. Laatsch, his students and citizen scientists that he trained will capture photographs of the eclipse as part of a research project called the Citizen […]

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‘The Maine Question’ shares how Mainers can experience total solar eclipse

On April 8, Mainers will have the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to witness a rare cosmic event without traveling out of state: a total solar eclipse. Space enthusiasts from across the U.S. are flocking to communities in rural Maine like Jackman and Houlton to enjoy three-and-a-half minutes of totality, when they can see a ring of light […]

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A photo of a high altitude balloon over campus

UMaine project will livestream total solar eclipse from the stratosphere 

When Noah Lambert of Bar Harbor enrolled at the University of Maine, launching a giant balloon 90,000 feet in the air to livestream a total solar eclipse wasn’t an activity he imagined being able to do during his college career.  For the past year, Lambert and nine other undergraduate and graduate students have been designing […]

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UMaine Partners for World Health celebrating new campus space

The grand opening of the new on-campus home for the University of Maine Partners for World Health (PWH) club will be held Thursday, March 21 at 4 p.m. in the Keyo Building, where UMaine’s chapter is now located.  Student members will be present along with invited campus administrators, professors and representatives from the encompassing, Maine-based […]

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Spring into science with return of Maine Big Night

University of Maine researchers are encouraging folks to get outside and help document one of nature’s great migrations this spring.  Maine Big Night, a community science nonprofit founded by UMaine Ph.D. candidate Greg LeClair calls on Mainers to brave the dark and muck to find frogs and salamanders that are on the move, and where […]

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