Research

Quartz interviews Steneck, Wahle for article on lobster boom

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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UMaine Climate Change report cited in Washington Post article on ticks

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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Al Jazeera English interviews DMC student about lobster research

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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Boothbay Register reports on DMC scientist’s sea slug research

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 publishes feature on Calhoun, vernal pool conservation

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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Food Dive interviews Camire about research funding controversy

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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An early spring for Maine lakes

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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Office of Research & Sponsored Programs communications survey online

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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WABI interviews Bromley about Antarctic, climate change research

University of Maine geologist Gordon Bromley spoke with WABI (Channel 5) about his upcoming research expedition to Antarctica. Bromley will study how Earth’s largest ice sheet — the East Antarctic Ice Sheet — has responded during past times of global warming to learn about how it may respond in the future to human-caused climate change. […]

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