The Associated Press ranked a story that stemmed from University of Maine research — that baby lobsters might not be able to survive in the ocean’s warming waters — as the No. 10 story this year in Maine. WABI (Channel 5) and The Washington Times carried the AP’s top 10 list. University of Maine Darling […]
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The online science magazine Nautilus cites the role played by Joyce Longcore and Joan Brooks at the University of Maine in advancing research on chytrid, a fungus that is the biggest threat to the world’s montane amphibian populations. In 1984, Brooks, who earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in peat engineering and science at UMaine, was […]
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Mainebiz and Morning Sentinel reported on the Maine Technology Institute’s four new awards from its Cluster Initiative Program. The grants, totaling $1.2 million, were awarded to collaborative projects that boost Maine’s high-potential, technology-enabled clusters — the Agriculture, Aquaculture, Fisheries and Food Production cluster and Maine’s Composites and Advanced Materials cluster. The awards leveraged $1.42 million […]
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The Maine Technology Institute (MTI) has announced the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center will receive one of four new awards for collaborative projects that boost Maine’s high-potential, technology-enabled clusters. Under MTI’s Cluster Initiative Program (CIP), the UMaine Composites Center was awarded $438,046 to establish a Smart Materials Industry Consortium and Smart Materials […]
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Yale Climate Connections published an article on Jill Pelto, a graduate student in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences at the University of Maine. Pelto creates environmental artwork as a way to communicate scientific data related to climate change. Pelto grew up immersed in nature and always loved to make art, according to the […]
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U.S. Sen. Angus King noted cutting-edge research taking place at the University of Maine, as he addressed the future of the state’s forest products industry on a tour of schools in Franklin County, the Daily Bulldog reported. As paper mills continue to struggle, King mentioned the need for the industry to branch out and embrace […]
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Free-floating ocean phytoplankton, often too small to be seen without a microscope, are a big deal. The tiny marine plants consume carbon dioxide and produce half of all the oxygen molecules that people and animals breathe. And, as the base of the ocean food web, they’re nourishment for zooplankton, fish, seabirds and whales. To gain […]
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A report conducted by the Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station at the University of Maine was mentioned in the Mainebiz article, “Maine’s dairy farmers seek ‘fair marketplace.’” According to the article, Maine dairy farmers say their industry could use help from Congress in their efforts to provide milk to customers in a fair marketplace. […]
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Acadia, UMaine researchers seek public’s help for fish survey, Mount Desert Islander reports Mount Desert Islander reported researchers with Acadia National Park and the University of Maine are seeking help from the Mount Desert Island community to fill some gaps in a historical freshwater fish survey. Park biologist Bruce Connery, UMaine instructor Erik Reardon, Mount […]
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WABI-TV5 reported on Friday’s party at the Emera Astronomy Center to celebrate the University of Maine-designed wireless leak detection system going to the International Space Station (ISS). The prototype, tested by NASA and in the inflatable lunar habitat and Wireless Sensing Laboratory (WiSe-Net Lab) at UMaine, alerts astronauts to potentially dangerous leaks of heat and […]
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