Greg Porter, a professor of agronomy at the University of Maine, was quoted in the latest column in the Portland Press Herald “Maine Gardener” series, titled “UMaine research leads to the introduction of two new potato varieties.” The author wrote he was surprised last winter when he saw Caribou Russet and Pinto Gold, two new […]
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The Harold Alfond W2 Ocean Engineering Lab at the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center was mentioned in a Fosters.com article about York-based RTI Wave Power, a subsidiary of Rohrer Technologies, Inc. The research and development company was formed to create a scale-model prototype to extract energy from ocean waves, according to the […]
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Mount Desert Islander reported Heather Leslie, director of the University of Maine Darling Marine Center, will discuss coastal ecosystem conservation during the College of the Atlantic’s Human Ecology Forum at McCormick Lecture Hall in Bar Harbor at 4:10 p.m. Tuesday, April 5. Her “Sustaining Coastal Marine Systems” talk is free and open to the public. […]
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The Maine Sea Grant College Program has awarded funds to University of Maine faculty for three new research projects representing more than $500,000 in investment from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and matching sources. Hamish Greig, an assistant professor of stream ecology in the School of Biology and Ecology, plans to study the fate […]
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Samuel Belknap, a Ph.D. student in the Adaptation to Abrupt Climate Change NSF IGERT Fellowship program pursuing a degree in anthropology and environmental policy at the University of Maine, was quoted in the Hakai Magazine article, “A warming threat to Maine’s lobsters.” In 2012, lobstermen started showing up at Belknap’s family dock in Bristol with […]
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Paul Mayewski, director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, spoke with ClimateWire for an article about glaciologist Claude Lorius. Over a half-century beginning in 1956 when Antarctica was a scientific mystery, Lorius assembled proof from the continent showing that humans are warming the planet by pumping out carbon at rates never […]
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Global Aquaculture Advocate reported that since Daniel Makrinos, a researcher at the University of Maine, began studying the salmonid disease salmonid rickettsial septicaemia (SRS) in February, he has been “entrenched” in researching the destructive bacterium that causes it. Makrinos has been studying published research and growing samples in his lab to greater understand, and hopefully […]
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University of Maine student Jaymi Thibault wrote an article for the Bangor Daily News titled “Bangor wants to know how to communicate with you. Here’s your chance to spill.” Thibault is an undergraduate political science student and member of the Honors College. This year, Thibault will be conducting research in collaboration with the city of […]
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The Maine Edge published a University of Maine news release announcing ocean technology in New England and Atlantic Canada will be the focus of a conference at UMaine April 27–28. The conference, which is organized by UMaine’s Canadian-American Center and the Maine International Trade Center, will bring together researchers, business leaders and policymakers in ocean […]
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Registration is open for the 2016 Maine Sea Grant Research Symposium: Research in a Time of Rapid Change. The event will be held from 1–5 p.m. Thursday, April 14 in Buchanan Alumni House on the University of Maine campus. The biennial event serves as a forum for new and seasoned Maine Sea Grant investigators and […]
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