In an attempt to improve how amphibians are monitored, University of Maine researchers evaluated a waistband for attaching external radio transmitters to frogs and toads. Radio telemetry provides fine-scale temporal and spatial information about an animal’s movements and habitat use; however, its use for tracking amphibians has been restricted by transmitter mass and lack of […]
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Popular Science published an article on Jesica Waller, a University of Maine master’s student in marine biology, and her winning photograph of a baby lobster. Over the summer, Waller raised thousands of lobsters in the lab to see how different climate change scenarios alter their development, according to the article. Her image of a live […]
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The National Park Service recently released an “Outside Science (inside parks)” video featuring a dragonfly mercury research project that was founded at the University of Maine. “Episode 2: Blue Skies and Dragonflies” explores a research collaboration among UMaine, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and National Park Service to study mercury in dragonfly larvae. The project […]
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A team of researchers led by Merrill “Pete” Elias of the Department of Psychology at the University of Maine published commentary in the Feb. 13 online issue of the journal EBioMedicine citing the importance of a new population-based study on the vision impairment and eye diseases in persons with chronic kidney disease (Wong et all., […]
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Several media outlets, including The Washington Post, New York Post, The Telegraph and Tech Times reported on a new study by researchers at the University of South Australia, University of Maine and Luxembourg Institute of Health that found chocolate intake is associated with better cognitive function. Merrill “Pete” Elias, a UMaine professor of psychology and […]
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The University of Maine was mentioned in a Bangor Daily News article about Mainers working to bring back the American chestnut tree. Glen Rea, a 73-year-old retired stockbroker from Bangor who studied forestry at UMaine before switching careers, is the northern breeding coordinator for the Maine Chapter of the American Chestnut Foundation. The organization is […]
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A 2011 waste characterization study by the University of Maine School of Economics was cited in the Portland Press Herald article, “Maine lawmakers hear mixed testimony on composting, recycling bill.” Maine municipalities would have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in additional fees to help fund new efforts to stimulate composting and recycling under […]
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Two University of Maine student organizations have partnered to organize the inaugural Black Bear Leadership Summit, designed to help current students develop the skills and perspectives needed to be successful leaders on campus and later in life. The event, to be held Friday, Feb. 26 at the Wells Conference Center, will feature workshops and presentations […]
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Kit Hamley, a graduate student at the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, was a recent guest on Falkland Islands Television. She spoke about her research on an extinct species of fox called the warrah. Using field and laboratory techniques, Hamley hopes to learn how and when the animal arrived in the Falklands. “It’s been […]
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Linda Silka, a senior fellow at the University of Maine’s Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions, was mentioned in the Free Press article, “Departments of transportation team up with climatologists, engineers to address sea-level rise.” As the federal government moves forward with policy and funding to tackle impending sea-level rise, climatologists and engineers […]
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