News Center Maine reported on the $22 million investment from Gov. Janet Mills and Maine’s Congressional delegation to Maine’s Forest Bioproducts Advanced Manufacturing Tech Hub, aimed at positioning the state as a global leader in forest based biomaterial production and manufacturing. The University of Maine is advancing plans to launch its Forest Bioproducts Technology Maturation […]
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Acadia National Park’s podcast, “Sea to Trees,” featured University of Maine graduate student Marisa Monroe to talk about her research in wildlife, fisheries and conservation biology. The interview follows her for a night in the field.
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Alaska Beacon and Anchorage Daily News featured Qiujie “Angie” Zheng’s paper titled “Consumers’ Valuation for Local Foods: The Case of ‘Alaska Grown,’” which was recently published in theJournal of Agricultural and Resource Economics. The study is based on surveys and interviews of shoppers at Anchorage grocery stores and farmers markets conducted by University of Alaska […]
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Popular Science, Earth.com and IFL Science highlighted a study led by Jasmine Saros, associate director of the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, which found that lakes in West Greenland began emitting carbon and decreased in water quality following record heat and precipitation. Saros and a team of researchers concluded that the combination of extreme […]
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Rachel Fowler, biology laboratory coordinator at the University of Maine, wrote a story featured in Park Science magazine on a study in which she led that aimed to understand the vulnerability of lakes in Acadia National Park to harmful algal blooms. The study showed that two lakes in Acadia that supply public drinking water were […]
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West Greenland is home to tens of thousands of blue lakes that provide residents drinking water and sequester carbon from the atmosphere. Yet after two months of record heat and precipitation in fall 2022, an estimated 7,500 lakes turned brown, began emitting carbon and decreased in water quality, according to a new study. Led by […]
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The Portland Press Herald featured University of Maine researchers who are developing Firefighting Biogel, an alternative to traditional firefighting foam that’s free from a group of chemicals known as PFAS. The gel is expected to be both safer for the environment and for those fighting fires. James Anderson, an engineer at UMaine’s Advanced Structures and […]
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The Bangor Daily News and News Center Maine highlighted a research project from the University of Maine that aims to understand how invasive forest plants impact tick populations. Researchers secured a $1.8 million grant from the National Science Foundation to test if controlling unwelcome forest plants also reduces densities of ticks, and how landowners can […]
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Maine’s lobster fishery — one that supports thousands of jobs statewide — is extensively monitored. Management efforts are informed by biological monitoring surveys observing changes in abundance and distribution of the lobster population, and dealer and harvester reporting from the industry. Yet these statistics don’t tell the whole story of an industry shaken by supply […]
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Students at the University of Maine are using physics to fight the flu. A group of undergraduate and graduate students, led by physics professor Sam Hess, is doing single molecule microscopy combined with molecular simulations to learn about how influenza viruses mutate and hijack the cells of their host. Their discoveries could lead to the […]
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