Heather Leslie, director of the University of Maine Darling Marine Center, is leading a research project to deepen her interdisciplinary investigations of ecological and human dimensions of small-scale fisheries in Mexico’s Baja peninsula. A $1.79 million award from the National Science Foundation’s Coupled Natural and Human (CNH) Systems Program funds the three-year project. “My studies […]
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Rachel Lasley-Rasher wanted to learn more about highly mobile shrimp that are important food for baleen whales and commercial fish along the continental shelf from Cape Hatteras to Nova Scotia. Because of their significance in the marine food web, she said a better understanding of shrimp migration patterns could fill knowledge gaps and help predict […]
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University of Maine marine scientists Bob Steneck and Rick Wahle, as well as their research, were cited in the Quartz article, “The enigma behind America’s freak, 20-year lobster boom.” Maine’s lobster business is the only fishery that has endured for more than a century and yet produces more volume and value than ever before, according […]
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The University of Maine report, “Maine’s Climate Future: 2015 Update,” was cited in a Washington Post article on the increase in winter ticks in Maine and New Hampshire as winters warm. Conditions over the past few years have been almost perfect for winter tick population booms in the two states, according to the article. During […]
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Jesica D. Waller, a graduate student at the University of Maine Darling Marine Center, was interviewed for an Al Jazeera English television piece about ocean acidification and lobsters. “The cause for worry is really we don’t know enough to worry,” says Waller, whose research focuses on how American lobster larvae develop in acidic ocean conditions. […]
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The Boothbay Register and The Maine Edge carried a University of Maine news release on sea slug research by Doug Rasher, a postdoctoral research associate at the Darling Marine Center. Rasher and his team discovered an underwater sea slug has evolved chemical foraging and defense abilities that are functionally identical to those of terrestrial insects, […]
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Science magazine published a feature article on Aram Calhoun, a professor of wetland ecology at the University of Maine, and her efforts to protect vernal pools. Calhoun is leading an innovative effort to overcome two of the tougher challenges in conservation biology in the United States: protecting vernal pools that are critical to the survival […]
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Mary Ellen Camire, a University of Maine professor of food science and human nutrition and past president of the Institute of Food Technologists, was quoted in a Food Dive article on the controversy surrounding funding for genetic modification research. “I hate to see anybody just rule out genetic modification outright because it’s evil. It’s how […]
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Researchers at the University of Maine say an expected increase in the frequency and strength of El Niño events — unusual warming of the tropical Pacific Ocean that causes worldwide fluctuations in temperature and rainfall — may result in milder winters in New England. Though good for residents longing for warm weather, the shift could […]
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The Office of Research & Sponsored Programs’ NCURA (National Council of University Research Administrators) Communications Task Force, together with the ORSP Compliance, Analysis & Training group, have developed a survey to aid the development of an improved communications strategy and training program. Members of the UMaine research community are asked to complete the survey, as […]
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