Griffin Dill talked with the Portland Press Herald about the increase of tick-borne illnesses in Maine last year. Anaplasmosis diagnoses reached a record high in 2019, with at least 685 confirmed cases of the tick-borne illness, while the number of Lyme disease cases also were up. “Ticks were abundant and highly active in 2019,” said […]
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Atlas Obscura mentioned a 2006 University of Maine study in its story, “The Canadian Arctic Once Probably Looked a Lot Like Present-Day Florida.” Ellesmere Island, just north of Greenland, has musk oxen, hares, brown grasses and shrubs. But about 56 million to 34 million years ago, the landscape was totally different, according to the article. […]
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The University of Maine Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (formerly the Animal Health Lab) was mentioned in a Penobscot Bay Pilot story about the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife plan to collar 130 moose this month for its moose survival study. IF&W, in cooperation and collaboration with the University of Maine Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, the […]
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A University of Maine time lapse video of a 25-foot, 5,000-pound boat being printed by a 3D printer at the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center was Maine Public’s biggest story of 2019 based on traffic volume. The Composites Center earned three Guinness World Records — for the largest printer, the largest solid […]
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Two of Mainebiz’s most unusual stories of 2019 came from the University of Maine: green crab dog biscuits and the unveiling of the world’s largest 3D printer. Angela Myracle, an assistant professor of human nutrition in the School of Food and Agriculture, and Anna Smestad, a human nutrition and pre-med major, devised a process to […]
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Deborah Bouchard, director of the University of Maine Aquaculture Research Institute told the Bangor Daily News that there’s a huge seafood deficit in the United States and that land-based aquaculture facilities will decrease that deficit, and increase food security. The article also cited a 2017 University of Maine Aquaculture Research Institute economic impact report that […]
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Deutsche Welle, Germany’s international broadcaster, credited the Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer in its story about ocean heat waves and Australian bushfires. The article linked to the Climate Reanalyzer, which mapped the heat blob in the Pacific Ocean between New Zealand and South America. The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research described the blob […]
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Daily Mail cited the University of Maine Lobster Institute in reference to a white lobster caught on the Yorkshire coast of United Kingdom. “The odds of finding an albino lobster are one in 100 million lobsters,” according to University of Maine Lobster Institute. “Yet, people do find them.” A genetic condition called leucism, which is […]
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Griffin Dill and the University of Maine Cooperative Extension Tick Identification Lab were included in a Bangor Daily News article about ticks. The lab has tested around 2,000 ticks for Lyme, anaplasmosis and babesiosis since April 1. “Of the 2,000 ticks, we found that roughly 45 percent tested positive for one of the three pathogens,” […]
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Pallavi Prasad cited Judith Rosenbaum’s research about spoilers in her column in The Swaddle. Prasad included a quote from Rosenbaum’s interview with Vox “that a lot of people’s reactions to spoilers depend on the circumstances. It’s not one-size-fits-all. We’ve published several papers that point to personality traits as a factor, for instance, or even the […]
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