The National Post spoke with Joshua Stoll, a University of Maine assistant professor of marine policy, about local seafood networks and community-based approaches to seafood distribution. According to Stoll, alternative seafood networks have thrived during the pandemic.
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As the data science field continues to generate more jobs and create new research and economic development opportunities, educators have decided to teach it in high schools. Many of the materials and tools they use, however, are inaccessible and fail to meet the needs of students with disabilities, impeding their access to data science careers. […]
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In covering the ripple effects of the pandemic on Portland restaurants, the Portland Press Herald cited a 2018 economic impact study by the University of Maine and a 2020 survey of the hospitality industry in Maine by Todd Gabe and Andrew Crawley, faculty in UMaine’s School of Economics. The Sun Journal shared the Press Herald […]
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The Bangor Daily News, Mainebiz, Morning Ag Clips, the Penobscot Bay Pilot and Eurasia Review, picked up a University of Maine news release highlighting research which shows that the blueberry barrens of Downeast Maine are warming at a faster rate than the rest of Maine, suggesting that unique strategies to mitigate climate change are required to sustain the […]
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The Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center at the University of Maine has selected four students to join the center as undergraduate research fellows for the 2021–22 academic year. History major Luke Miller, sociology student Sabrina Paetow, Spanish major and legal studies minor Stephanie Tillotson, and non-traditional nursing student Heather Webb will join current fellows […]
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Wild blueberry fields in Down East Maine are warming faster than the state as a whole, according to a new University of Maine study on the effects of climate change on the barrens over the past 40 years. The difference in rising temperature rates suggests the need to develop specific wild blueberry management strategies, such […]
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The Maine Forest Tick Survey at the University of Maine has issued its 2020 Citizen Science Results Report for nine southern and coastal counties in the state, and is seeking forest landowners to be part of its citizen science research program this summer. To understand the growing risks of tick-borne diseases in Maine and investigate […]
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Darren Ranco says Indigenous peoples should be part of land use decisions, including whether to expand the quarantine zone for the emerald ash borer in northern Maine. “We have to be at the table because proof is in the pudding,” says the University of Maine associate professor of anthropology, chair of Native American Programs, and […]
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Paul Mayewski, Kimberley Miner and Mariusz Potocki were interviewed by The Washington Post about finding per- and polyfluorinated substances (PFAS), or “forever chemicals,” near the summit of Everest. Mayewski is the director of the Climate Change Institute (CCI) at the University of Maine, Miner is an assistant research professor with CCI, and Potocki is a […]
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An image from the Climate Reanalyzer developed by Sean Birkel, a research assistant professor with the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, was featured with a Washington Post story about the reassignment of Trump appointee Betsy Weatherhead to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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