The Maine Monitor talked with Sean Birkel, a University of Maine research assistant professor and Maine’s state climatologist, about the influence of surface winds and new wind patterns on climate change. The Penobscot Bay Pilot shared the Maine Monitor story.
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William DeSisto, a University of Maine professor of chemical and biomedical engineering, talked with the Bangor Daily News about his efforts to sustainability produce a cost-efficient alternative disinfectant to alcohol-based hand sanitizer. U.S. News and World Report shared the BDN story in a roundup of pandemic-related news from each state. Clean Link also reported on […]
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The Penobscot Bay Pilot, The Piscataquis Observer and the Bangor Daily News shared a University of Maine news release about researchers’ efforts to create a new training program for future behavioral health workers. The Rural Integrated Behavioral Health in Primary Care (RIBHPC) training program seeks to address the shortage of workers in mental health, addiction treatment, social work […]
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Centralmaine.com highlighted two University of Maine Ph.D. students who won first and third place in the college division of the 2021 Bioscience Association of Maine (BioME) Student Showcase. Avery Bond, a Ph.D. student of microbiology, won first place, and Michael Wilczek, also a Ph.D. student of microbiology, won third place. Watch their presentations online.
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The Boothbay Register, Wiscasset Newspaper, The Piscataquis Observer, The Irregular and the Bangor Daily News advanced a report summarizing browntail moth research conducted by faculty and staff at the University of Maine. “Browntail Moth Research: A Report of Activities and Findings 2016–2020” provides a brief history of browntail moths in Maine and outlines ongoing research focused on controlling the pest.
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University of Maine researchers are studying how changes in rainfall patterns caused by climate change could affect strawberries in the Northeast. Principal investigator Rachel Schattman, an assistant professor of sustainable agriculture, and her research team built a precipitation and cropping simulator to assess the effects of four possible rainfall scenarios on strawberries and other specialty […]
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Live Science spoke with University of Maine researchers Tim Waring and Zach Wood about a recent study which suggests that culture drives faster evolutionary change than human genetics. Waring is an associate professor of social-ecological systems modeling; Wood is a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Biology and Ecology. Real Clear Science shared the Live […]
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WVII (Channel 7) talked with Rachel Schattman, a University of Maine assistant professor of sustainable agriculture, about the impact of changing rainfall patterns on strawberries in Maine. Morning Ag Clips and Horti Daily also reported on Schattman’s research.
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National Geographic spoke with Andy Pershing, an associate professor of climate change at the University of Maine, and Robert Steneck, a professor of marine sciences at UMaine about climate change in the Gulf of Maine and the impact on the lobsters and the lobster fishery.
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When Sharon Tisher reflects on the climate crises that students in her courses are inheriting, she sometimes experiences a momentary loss of words. “My generation are the ones who allowed climate change to happen and benefited in many ways from the conveniences of burning fossil fuels,” she says. Then, the lecturer in the University of […]
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