Research

Honors, political science student writes about research in BDN

University of Maine student Jaymi Thibault wrote an article for the Bangor Daily News titled “Bangor wants to know how to communicate with you. Here’s your chance to spill.” Thibault is an undergraduate political science student and member of the Honors College. This year, Thibault will be conducting research in collaboration with the city of […]

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Ocean technology in region focus of conference, Maine Edge reports

The Maine Edge published a University of Maine news release announcing ocean technology in New England and Atlantic Canada will be the focus of a conference at UMaine April 27–28. The conference, which is organized by UMaine’s Canadian-American Center and the Maine International Trade Center, will bring together researchers, business leaders and policymakers in ocean […]

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Registration open for 2016 Maine Sea Grant Research Symposium

Registration is open for the 2016 Maine Sea Grant Research Symposium: Research in a Time of Rapid Change. The event will be held from 1–5 p.m. Thursday, April 14 in Buchanan Alumni House on the University of Maine campus. The biennial event serves as a forum for new and seasoned Maine Sea Grant investigators and […]

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Foster Center, SEANET debut new websites

The Foster Center for Student Innovation and Sustainable Ecological Aquaculture Network (SEANET) are among the latest programs to upgrade to the university’s new website template. The Aquaculture Research Institute, Evolutionary Applications Lab, Student Wellness Resource Center, Children’s Center, Peace & Reconciliation Studies and Maine Studies also recently upgraded. The new umaine.edu and related pages debuted […]

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Liz Wood

Liz Wood: On course and full speed ahead

When Liz Wood was young she sped up and down her Virginia driveway in her battery-powered Barbie Jeep. The 22-year-old biology major with a premed concentration and captain of the women’s basketball team is still a driving force. The last four years, two of her athletic goals included an America East conference playoff title and […]

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Maine sustainability issues focus of annual conference

From sessions on climate change and extreme weather events to dams, safe beaches and shellfish, and building sustainable food systems, the 2016 Maine Sustainability & Water Conference will feature an expanded agenda on topics affecting the state, region, country and globe. The Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine […]

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Mount Desert Islander advances Sader’s forest mapping talk in Bar Harbor

Mount Desert Islander reported Steve Sader, a professor of forest resources and director of the Maine Image Analysis Laboratory at the University of Maine, will discuss “Mapping and Monitoring 40-plus Years of Forest Change in Maine’s North Woods” at 5:30 p.m. April 6 in Bar Harbor. Sader will speak as part of MDI Science Café […]

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Sorg cited in Current article on remains found at unmarked burial site

Marcella Sorg, a research professor at the University of Maine, was mentioned in the Current article, “Remains of three people found in unmarked, 1800s burial site in Scarborough.” Construction workers at a house lot found the unmarked graves of three people while digging the home’s new leach field last month, according to the article. With […]

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Johnson speaks with WAGM about new potato bacteria

Steve Johnson, a crops specialist with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension in Presque Isle, spoke with WAGM (Channel 8 in Presque Isle) about Dickeya, a bacterial pathogen that’s threatening Maine seed potatoes and causing crop loss. Johnson said the bacteria is an increasing problem that needs to be dealt with immediately, according to the […]

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Bayer, Steneck quoted in Press Herald article on Sweden’s proposed lobster ban

Robert Bayer, executive director of the University of Maine’s Lobster Institute; and Robert Steneck, a leading marine biologist at UMaine’s School of Marine Sciences, spoke with the Portland Press Herald for an article about Sweden wanting the European Union to put Maine lobster on its international list of invasive species. The ban would stop all […]

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