Reliawire reported on recent climate change research by University of Maine scientists Paul Mayewski and Sean Birkel. Two different climate scenarios appear plausible for Antarctica in the 21st century, according to Mayewski, director of the Climate Change Institute at UMaine. An examination of climate models as well as records of climate change developed through ice […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported on University of Maine research that could help NASA put humans on Mars. Engineers at UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center are working closely with NASA on the Hypersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator, or HIAD. The HIAD, which is made up of a series of large, inner tube-like inflatable rings, slows […]
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The Maine Public Broadcasting Network spoke with University of Maine art professor Michael Grillo and UMaine archivist Desiree Butterfield-Nagy as part of a series that focuses on the importance of humanities. In part three, Grillo and Butterfield-Nagy discuss the future of archives in a digital age. Both wrote articles in the special issue of Maine […]
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The Portland Press Herald reported on pollinator gardens planted in May by University of Maine researchers at the former Pine Tree Landfill in Hampden. The gardens — one mostly flowers on the capped landfill itself, and the other shrubs at its edge — are intended to attract threatened native bees and nourish them with pollen […]
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Jake Ward, UMaine’s vice president for innovation and economic development, was quoted in a Portland Press Herald analysis on offshore wind farms. According to the article, a project affiliated with the University of Maine, called Maine Aqua Ventus, could get another shot at the federal Department of Energy’s $47 million grant to help build an […]
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A 2011 study by the University of Maine School of Economics was cited in a Portland Press Herald article on composting in Maine. The study found 38.41 percent of what Mainers disposed of could have been composted. Plenty of Maine supermarkets, corporate customers, schools and other institutions have already embraced composting, according to the article, […]
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The Mount Desert Islander reported University of Maine geographer Stephen Hornsby will speak Aug. 25 about the “Historical Atlas of Maine,” as part of the College of the Atlantic’s final Coffee and Conversation event. Sarah Hall, COA’s Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Chair in Earth Systems and Geosciences, also will discuss the book in […]
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Marcella Sorg of the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center will be among the state’s leaders participating in the Drug Crisis Summit organized by Gov. Paul LePage on Aug. 26. A news release about the summit is online.
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Two different climate scenarios appear plausible for Antarctica in the 21st century, says Paul Mayewski, director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine. An examination of climate models as well as records of climate change developed through ice cores reveal a potential for future climate surprises in the Southern Hemisphere, he says. […]
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Jacqueline Gill, a paleoecologist at the University of Maine, was interviewed for a Christian Science Monitor article titled “In climate change era, new idea for conservation takes shape.” “The question we’d really like to answer,” says Gill, “is whether geodiversity has corresponded to biodiversity through time – and how landform durability influences biodiversity.” The article […]
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