The awards keep coming for Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie, a David H. Smith Conservation Research Fellow at the Climate Change Institute. The New England Botanical Club announced that her paper, “Common garden experiments as a dynamic tool for ecological studies of alpine plants and communities in eastern North America,” has received the Merritt Lyndon Fernald Award […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reported on Allison Gardner’s research into ecosystem factors, such as temperature and snowpack, that inhibit the spread of blacklegged ticks. The National Science Foundation awarded the assistant professor in the School of Biology and Ecology $200,000 for a three-year project that begins Sept. 1. Blacklegged ticks’ current distribution appears to be mostly […]
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Dallas Innovates magazine referenced the W2 Wind-Wave Basin at the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center for an article about an offshore wind project from the University of Texas that received funding. The U.S. Department of Energy and the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy awarded Todd Griffith, associate professor of mechanical engineering at The […]
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What can businesses learn from the military about making good decisions? Find out in this week’s episode of “The Maine Question.” Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the fast pace of the business world required companies to make good decisions quickly in order to survive and thrive. Maine Business School professors Nory Jones and John Mahon […]
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Joshua Girgis ’18 earned his degree in mechanical engineering and headed to the Darling Marine Center to work with Maine Aquaculture Innovation Center director Chris Davis and others to design an environmental monitoring buoy. The goal is to build a buoy that gathers real-time information about ocean temperature, salinity and productivity so oyster and seaweed […]
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University of Maine Climate Change Institute director Paul Mayewski and Charles Norchi, Benjamin Thompson Professor of Law at the University of Maine School of Law and Fulbright-Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Iceland) Arctic Scholar, co-authored the cover story “COVID-19 and climate change: the planet’s twin crises” in Global Geneva, an independent, international print and online journalism publication in […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reported on University of Maine professor Mollie Ruben’s request for selfies from the public for her coronavirus-related research. Ruben, an assistant professor of psychology, wants to explore people’s social perceptions and biases related to face masks, and a #Selfie4Science will help. She’s building a database of people with and without face masks […]
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Disease-transmitting blacklegged ticks invading new areas are a threat to the health of people and animals and are a burden on the economy. Allison Gardner will seek to isolate ecosystem factors — including temperature and snow pack — that inhibit their geographic spread and that lead to methods to control them during vulnerable life stages […]
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The Associated Press reported on three University of Maine professors who were awarded fellowships to conduct research in Acadia National Park. The faculty members are Rachel Fowler, laboratory coordinator with the School of Biology and Ecology; Bonnie Newsom, assistant professor of anthropology; and Jay Wason, assistant professor of forest ecosystem physiology. The fellowships were awarded […]
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Next time you put on a face mask before heading into the grocery store, Mollie Ruben would like you to snap a selfie and send it her way. Your #Selfie4Science will support COVID-19-related research. Given the need to wear face masks as well as interact while wearing them, the University of Maine assistant professor of […]
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