The Bangor Daily News reported that the University of Maine will join the town of Orono and the city of Bangor in efforts to create a regional climate action plan that will stretch across Penobscot County. UMaine, home of the Climate Change Institute, is working to finalize a memorandum of understanding with the municipalities. News […]
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The Center for Research on Sustainable Forests at the University of Maine will host a series of five webinars and live forest tours that will explore the impact of climate change on diverse Maine woodlands. The Forest Climate Change Initiative and the Forest Stewards Guild will explore the impact of climate change through a series […]
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The Cape Cod Times spoke with Andrew Pershing, a University of Maine associate professor with the Climate Change Institute, about fishing practices and accelerated warming in the Gulf of Maine that are impacting the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale. Pershing and other researchers recently published three studies that indicate the right whale may be […]
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Civil Eats talked with Joshua Stoll, a University of Maine assistant professor of marine policy, for a story about gender barriers in the aquaculture industry. The article also cited data from Maine Sea Grant’s Aquaculture in Shared Waters initiative, noting that more Maine women are enrolling in aquaculture training programs, although the majority of aquaculture […]
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Bailey McLaughlin, a graduate research assistant in the School of Biology and Ecology Graduate Organization at the University of Maine, talked with WVII for a story about a BioBlitz scheduled for Sept. 18–19 on campus. More information about the free event is online.
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The Bangor Daily News shared a University of Maine news release highlighting the role of researchers from UMaine’s Climate Change Institute in a new project seeking to identify and harvest the oldest ice in Antarctica. The Center for the Oldest Ice Exploration, or COLDEX, is led by Oregon State University and funded by the National […]
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The Bangor Daily News, Centralmaine.com, The Irregular and the Sun Journal promoted “Digging for Buried Treasure: Hidden Gems in Maine’s Reuse Markets,” which is scheduled for 3–4 p.m. Sept. 20 in Room 107 of the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine. The presentation will also be available on Zoom. Cindy Isenhour, a […]
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The Penobscot Bay Pilot and the Bangor Daily News shared a University of Maine news release highlighting a new finding from the Maine-Syracuse Longitudinal Study which shows that older adults can reduce their blood pressure by consuming yogurt. The international team of scientists includes University of Maine researchers Benjamin Guenther, Fayeza Ahmed and Merrill Elias.
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The Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine will host a talk about sustainability in Maine’s secondhand economies from 3–4 p.m. Monday, Sept. 20. While Mainers have been reusing goods for a long time, concerns around climate change, resource scarcity and depletion, and increasing levels of waste have focused […]
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University of Maine Climate Change Institute researchers will return to the Allan Hills blue ice area in Antarctica as part of a new Center for Oldest Ice Exploration, or COLDEX, led by Oregon State University and made possible by a five-year, $25 million National Science Foundation grant. COLDEX is one of six new NSF science […]
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