A University of Maine video on bee research being conducted by Frank Drummond, a professor of insect ecology, was featured on Science360. For the past 30 years, Drummond has studied the biology, ecology, disease susceptibility and pesticide exposure of Maine’s 275 native species of bees, as well as the millions of commercial honeybees annually trucked […]
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Molly Jacobs, a visiting researcher from McDaniel College in Maryland, will present a brown bag seminar, “Age-appropriate outfits? Decorating behavior in juvenile and adult decorator crabs,” at noon Thursday, Sept. 15 at the University of Maine Darling Marine Center. Decorator crabs hide from predators by covering themselves with materials from their environment. In young crabs, […]
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A new study about the University of Maine’s out-of-state undergraduate students found that their activities generate a statewide annual economic impact of an estimated $160 million, according to UMaine Professor of Economics Todd Gabe. In addition to the annual economic contribution — including multiplier effects — in spending, Gabe found UMaine’s out-of-state undergraduate students fill […]
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A University of Maine video on research being conducted by LeeAnne Thayer, a Ph.D. candidate in marine sciences, and Heather Hamlin, an assistant professor of aquaculture and marine biology, was featured on Science360. For the past 15 years, aquacultural salmon farmers in Maine have struggled with plummeting embryo survival rates, forcing them to drastically increase […]
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The Associated Press reported an Augusta firm that manufactures aquaculture pens will receive about $100,000 from the federal government. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is giving InnovaSea Systems a Small Business Innovation Research grant to research whether its pens can be made using a strong and stiff composite lumber, as opposed to high-density polyethylene plastic, […]
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The University of Maine is one of 37 colleges, universities and educational groups nationwide to receive first-ever awards for the National Science Foundation’s INCLUDES program, a comprehensive initiative to enhance U.S. leadership in science and engineering by broadening participation in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). UMaine will receive $300,000 for a […]
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Read transcript In summer 2016, students from the University of Maine, University of Maine at Machias and the University of New England became SEA (Science for Economic Impact & Application) Fellows. Knowledge gained from hands-on research projects involving oysters, lobster shell hardness and disease, clam growth and surface runoff in the Damariscotta River estuary is […]
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The Associated Press reported researchers from the University of Maine are working on a federally funded program that uses underwater drones to collect data on what sustains and strengthens hurricanes to better understand the storms and to ultimately help protect life and property. UMaine is working on the project with researchers from Woods Hole Oceanographic […]
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Morning Sentinel cited a 1996 study conducted by the University of Maine and the Department of Environmental Protection in the article, “Historic Vassalboro sawmill’s removal is a mixed blessing for town, historians.” The Alewife Restoration Initiative, an unofficial collaboration of seven organizations, tore down the sawmill for safety reasons and plans to remove the Masse […]
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A 2011 waste characterization study by the University of Maine School of Economics was cited in a Portland Press Herald article about a new food waste recycling program that launched in Portland. The program aims to trigger the next big advance in southern Maine’s municipal trash business: collection of household kitchen scraps and other organic […]
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