The National Sea Grant Extension Assembly selected Maine Sea Grant as the recipient of the 2016 Superior Outreach Programming Award, presented at the biennial meeting of the National Sea Grant Network on Oct. 13 in Newport, Rhode Island. Sarah Redmond, former marine Extension associate with Sea Grant and University of Maine Cooperative Extension, received the […]
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Editor’s note: Story updated Oct. 27. DeepCLiDAR, a floating light detection and ranging (LiDAR) system developed by the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center and the Physical Oceanography Group (PhOG) of the School of Marine Sciences, has successfully completed a new deployment performance test 12 miles off the Maine coast in 65 meters […]
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Fogler Library Reference Services will hold a free workshop from noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 26 in Fogler’s Library Classroom. The workshop will cover a variety of topics geared toward graduate students conducting research at UMaine, including: How to access full-text articles on the open web; How to manage citations for literature reviews; Grant-seeking […]
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The Mount Desert Islander mentioned an ongoing study by University of Maine Professor of Economics Todd Gabe in its coverage of the debate in Bar Harbor over a proposal to increase cruise ship passenger limits on certain “trial dates” in 2018. Members of the city’s town council denied the request in a split vote on […]
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The first half of October 2016 was likely the warmest across the Arctic for this time of year since at least 1948, says Maine’s state climatologist. In the Arctic — 65–90 degrees north latitude — on Oct. 7, 2016, the mean daily temperature averaged a balmy minus 3.5 C (25.7 F), a value that’s 6.6 […]
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Students in the University of Maine Marine Sciences Club are partnering with area schoolchildren to enter the 2016 Atlantic Miniboat Regatta with a nearly 5-foot unmanned sailboat equipped with GPS to track its voyage to Europe by way of the ocean currents. The regatta is organized by Educational Passages, a Belfast, Maine-based program that teaches […]
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The future just became a bit brighter for Maine’s amphibians and fairy shrimp under a new plan that encourages protection of vernal pools. The Vernal Pool Special Area Management Plan fine-tunes existing state regulation to a local level. It will serve as a voluntary mitigation tool that helps towns control their vernal pool resources, provide […]
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Aaron Putnam was featured in a Warm Regards Podcast about his recent research expedition in Mongolia. The assistant professor with the University of Maine Climate Change Institute searched for clues in the Altai Mountains about what caused the Earth to lurch out of the last ice age about 20,000 years ago. Warm Regards is a […]
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TeCake.com reported on additional dark chocolate findings from researchers at the University of Maine, Luxembourg Institute of Health, University of Warwick Medical School and the University of South Australia. Researchers found that eating dark chocolate daily improves cardiovascular health and prevents diabetes.
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Many thousands of years ago, as the world slowly began to thaw at the end of the last ice age, the landscapes of southern Peru were quite different than the ones University of Maine’s Gordon Bromley finds himself wandering about these days. Large domes of ice, blanketing the high and jagged peaks of ancient cordilleras, […]
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