WABI (Channel 5) and WVII (Channel 7) reported on a public tour of a garden and wildflower plot installed at the Pine Tree Landfill in Hampden by University of Maine researchers in an effort to support the native bee population. “Maine is a very heavily forested state, and we don’t find many bees in the […]
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The Maine Edge published a University of Maine release about research by Damian Brady, an assistant professor in the School of Marine Sciences at the Darling Marine Center. The National Science Foundation recently awarded Brady and colleagues a $266,309 grant to advance UMaine high-performance computer modeling tools to aid timely forecasts of storms and effective […]
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Joseph Kelley, a professor of marine geology in the University of Maine School of Earth and Climate Sciences and Climate Change Institute, was quoted in a Portland Press Herald article on a proposed U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredging project in Searsport. Although the project aims to improve and upgrade Maine’s second-busiest port, it has […]
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Greg Porter, a professor of agronomy at the University of Maine, spoke with the Bangor Daily News for an article about what it takes to develop new potato varieties. For the last eight years, Porter has led UMaine’s potato breeding program, looking for the right combination of consumer marketability and disease and pest resistance, according […]
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The Associated Press reported University of Maine researchers are working on a two-year project to increase the state’s crop of locally grown plums. The project — funded by the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry — is identifying suitable plum varieties for Maine’s climate that would help diversify the state’s apple farms. The project […]
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University of Maine research was cited in an Associated Press article about wildlife officials and private landowners working to save the Canada lynx by providing patches of spruce and fir forests to attract more snowshoe hares on which lynx feed. An outbreak of spruce budworm threatened large areas of forest and prompted massive clear cutting […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reported a garden and wildflower plot installed at the Pine Tree Landfill in Hampden will be part of a public tour from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 8. University of Maine researchers created the gardens as a pollinator habitat project to support bees, according to the report. The researchers said the […]
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The Bangor Daily News cited research by Sharon Klein, an economics professor at the University of Maine, in an article on an Environment Maine Research and Policy Center news conference that was held on campus. The center recently released the report, “Lighting the way: The top states that helped drive America’s solar energy boom in […]
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Timely forecasts of storms and effective management of commercial fishing are essential in the wake of extreme weather events and unprecedented warming in the Gulf of Maine. Damian Brady, University of Maine assistant professor in the School of Marine Sciences at the Darling Marine Center, is working to advance both of those goals. The National […]
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Fosters.com published a University of Maine news release about researchers who are working to bring locally grown plums to farm stands around the state. The two-year project — funded by the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry — is identifying suitable plum varieties for Maine’s climate that would help diversify the state’s apple farms. […]
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