WABI (Channel 5) interviewed Balunkeswar Nayak about his efforts to retain seaweed’s health benefits during processing and preservation. “Our lab is helping…find out… the best processing techniques that can really save this product for off-season use and also different types of value additions,” says the University of Maine associate professor of food processing.
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Blue mussels can change patterns of gene expression to make more proteins that help with heat stress and facilitate energy production. This ability makes wild blue mussels (genus Mytilus) somewhat resilient to higher ocean temperature, acidification and less food, says Sarah Kingston, a visiting professor in the School of Marine Sciences at the University of […]
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Darling Marine Center researcher Kara Pellowe and colleagues found very few clams of commercial size (2 inches or larger) last summer in any of the intertidal flats managed by the towns of Damariscotta and Newcastle. Their discovery came during a collaborative project in which they counted shellfish (soft-shell clams, quahogs, razor clams, mussels and oysters) […]
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Group music training can enhance cognitive function and personal well-being in older adults, according to a new University of Maine study led by Rebecca MacAulay, an assistant professor of psychology, and Philip Edelman, an assistant professor of music education. Music is associated with reduced stress and improved quality of life and mood, and music training […]
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University of Maine faculty members and students conducted fascinating and impactful research important to Maine and the world in 2019. This roundup of stories from July to December covers 3D printing, eDNA, obesity, lobster resilience, and sustainable aquaculture. And here’s a link to research and news highlights from January to June. All UMaine news stories […]
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For generations, indigenous Wabanaki people hunted, caught fish, and harvested clams and oysters along the coast of what’s now called Maine. And they left behind middens — heaps of shells — that sometimes contain tools, ceramic shards and bones of animals. Alice Kelley and Bonnie Newsom are in a race against time and tides to […]
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Boothbay Register and Wiscasset Newspaper published a University of Maine Darling Marine Center news release on a new study of how fishermen adapt to environmental change, led by UMaine researchers Kara Pellowe and Heather Leslie. The study found that regulations and financial resources that influence how people fish have as great an effect on how […]
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Anthropocene Magazine featured research on small mammals by Alessio Mortelliti, an assistant professor of wildlife habitat ecology at the University of Maine, in an article about helping forests adapt to climate change. “We cannot take for granted that animals will disperse any random seeds,” that they find at the edge of an expanding range, said […]
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Regulations and financial resources that influence how people fish have as great an effect on how they deal with change as where and how they fish, found University of Maine Darling Marine Center researchers Kara Pellowe and Heather Leslie. The ecologists examined how fishermen adapt to environmental and economic change in Baja California Sur, Mexico. […]
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Phys.org published a University of Maine news release about a new large-scale genetic study that found domestic sheep and goats are the source of bronchopneumonia in bighorn sheep and mountain goats in the western United States. Pauline Kamath, assistant professor of animal health, led the research. Spillover diseases have significant consequences for human and animal […]
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