As the sun rises over Bass Harbor, Maine, Jim Dow and crew fish for lobsters — retrieving and baiting traps and measuring and banding lobsters. Jim Dow is vice president of the Maine Lobstermen’s Association, and sits on the board of advisors of the University of Maine Lobster Institute. UMaine has been a leader in […]
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Read transcript The award-winning basketball captain and 2016 graduate with a degree in biology with a concentration in pre-medical studies has learned to live, and thrive, in the moment. Liz Wood, who earned a 3.95 GPA, scored nearly 1,500 points and pulled down more than 900 rebounds for the Black Bears. Her sights are now set […]
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Read transcript Kristy Townsend’s scientific roots reach back to her undergraduate years at the University of Maine, when she studied circadian rhythms with Alan Rosenwasser, professor of psychology. Today at UMaine, Townsend teaches introduction to neuroscience and cellular biology, and is dedicated to giving young scientists hands-on experience in the lab. In the Townsend lab […]
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Read transcript In 1980, Maine’s North Woods was a sea of gray, the result of a spruce budworm infestation that decimated millions of acres. The eastern spruce budworm is believed to be the most damaging forest insect in Maine and North America. Outbreaks of the insect that kills balsam fir and spruce trees occur every […]
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Read transcript University of Maine researchers, including Kit Hamley, explore how extinct and introduced animals affect the Falkland Islands and seek to help farmers, sheep, tussock grass, tourists and penguins coexist in light of competing interests, sea-level rise and erosion. Hamley helped develop the 4-H Follow A ResearcherTM program at UMaine, which connects K–12 students […]
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The Free Press reported Peter Mumby, leader of the Marine Spatial Ecology Lab at the University of Queensland, Australia, will lead a seminar at the University of Maine Darling Marine Center (DMC) in Walpole at noon Wednesday, July 13. In his talk, “Managing Coral Reef Resilience and Ecosystem Functioning in an Era of Climate Change,” […]
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The Daily Telegraph in Australia mentioned a study by Per Garder, a civil engineering professor at the University of Maine, in an article about how older drivers react to roundabouts. Garder’s two-year study found drivers over 70 years old took 3.95 seconds, on average, to negotiate a roundabout, according to the article. The only drivers […]
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Research being conducted by Ellie Groden, an entomology professor at the University of Maine, was mentioned in a Lincoln County News article about the invasive browntail moth. The insect, which is on the rise throughout Maine, is relatively harmless in its adult stage, but can cause a painful rash similar to poison ivy during its […]
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Medical Xpress published a University of Maine profile on Chantel Banus, a second-year master’s student in human nutrition. Banus, of Ashby, Massachusetts, is working to determine the factors that influence consumer purchase of seaweed products in the United States. She is conducting a survey to see what consumers are looking for in seaweed products and […]
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Chantel Banus, second-year master’s student in human nutrition at the University of Maine, is working to determine the factors that influence consumer purchase of seaweed products in the United States. Banus is conducting a survey to see what consumers are looking for in seaweed products and what influences their decision to purchase them. She wants […]
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