Fogler Library is offering a trial of the database “African American Communities” from Adam Matthew. According to the website, the database “showcases a diverse range of primary source material focusing on race relations across social, political, cultural and religious arenas. … Focusing predominantly on Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, Brooklyn, and towns and cities in North […]
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A project to bring full-text scores from the Maine Music Box database into Digital Commons is underway. The first of several series to be migrated is the “Vocal Popular Sheet Music Collection” with 5,200 illustrated sheet music scores now available on Digital Commons. Materials in the public domain, or published before 1923, may be downloaded […]
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Aaron Putnam has been awarded one of most prestigious grants for an early-career scientist. Early career indeed. Putnam has been on the job at the University of Maine for about eight months as the George H. Denton Assistant Professor in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences. In May, he’ll take the reins of a […]
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Greg Porter, a professor of agronomy at the University of Maine, was quoted in the latest column in the Portland Press Herald “Maine Gardener” series, titled “UMaine research leads to the introduction of two new potato varieties.” The author wrote he was surprised last winter when he saw Caribou Russet and Pinto Gold, two new […]
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The Harold Alfond W2 Ocean Engineering Lab at the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center was mentioned in a Fosters.com article about York-based RTI Wave Power, a subsidiary of Rohrer Technologies, Inc. The research and development company was formed to create a scale-model prototype to extract energy from ocean waves, according to the […]
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Mount Desert Islander reported Heather Leslie, director of the University of Maine Darling Marine Center, will discuss coastal ecosystem conservation during the College of the Atlantic’s Human Ecology Forum at McCormick Lecture Hall in Bar Harbor at 4:10 p.m. Tuesday, April 5. Her “Sustaining Coastal Marine Systems” talk is free and open to the public. […]
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The Maine Sea Grant College Program has awarded funds to University of Maine faculty for three new research projects representing more than $500,000 in investment from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and matching sources. Hamish Greig, an assistant professor of stream ecology in the School of Biology and Ecology, plans to study the fate […]
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Samuel Belknap, a Ph.D. student in the Adaptation to Abrupt Climate Change NSF IGERT Fellowship program pursuing a degree in anthropology and environmental policy at the University of Maine, was quoted in the Hakai Magazine article, “A warming threat to Maine’s lobsters.” In 2012, lobstermen started showing up at Belknap’s family dock in Bristol with […]
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Paul Mayewski, director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, spoke with ClimateWire for an article about glaciologist Claude Lorius. Over a half-century beginning in 1956 when Antarctica was a scientific mystery, Lorius assembled proof from the continent showing that humans are warming the planet by pumping out carbon at rates never […]
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Global Aquaculture Advocate reported that since Daniel Makrinos, a researcher at the University of Maine, began studying the salmonid disease salmonid rickettsial septicaemia (SRS) in February, he has been “entrenched” in researching the destructive bacterium that causes it. Makrinos has been studying published research and growing samples in his lab to greater understand, and hopefully […]
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