The Free Press reported on a project by the Maine Sea Grant College Program and the University of Maine Cooperative Extension that aims to help lobstermen. The three-year project, “Planning for a Changing Climate: A Participatory Approach to Fishing Community Adaptation,” has drawn on the observations of South Thomaston lobstermen to devise a computer model […]
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University of Maine marine scientists shared their research findings at the 2016 Ocean Sciences Meeting last week in New Orleans at the same time a tornado and hail battered the Big Easy, which, on average, is 6 feet below sea level. Heather Leslie, director of the UMaine Darling Marine Center, said nearly 4,000 participants were […]
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The Maine Public Broadcasting Network reported the Historical Atlas of Maine has received the 2016 American Association of Geographers Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography. The atlas, the result of a 15-year scholarly project led by University of Maine researchers, offers a new geographical and historical interpretation of Maine, from the end of […]
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Mainebiz reported on a newly released report by the Maine Development Foundation and the University of Maine’s School of Economics that examines tourism in the state. The report, “The High Seasonality of Tourism in Maine,” uses data on the state’s taxable lodging sales to examine the seasonal nature of tourism in Maine, which plays a […]
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The University of Maine was mentioned in a Portland Press Herald article on a proposal to reduce the state’s moose permits by 24 percent in an attempt to meet public demand for greater opportunities to see the animal, particularly in northern Maine. The approach represents a shift from the past two years, when permits were […]
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University of Maine economist Todd Gabe’s 2014 study on the maple industry’s financial impact on the state was cited in the Mainebiz article “Gov. LePage vies to make Maine No. 1 in maple production.” Conservation and Forestry Commissioner Walt Whitcomb said in a release that Maine Gov. Paul LePage’s desire to see Maine become the […]
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The Maine Development Foundation and the University of Maine’s School of Economics recently released a quarterly report analyzing tourism — a critical economic indicator in Maine. The latest report, “The High Seasonality of Tourism in Maine,” uses data on the state’s taxable lodging sales to examine the seasonal nature of tourism in Maine, which plays […]
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In an attempt to improve how amphibians are monitored, University of Maine researchers evaluated a waistband for attaching external radio transmitters to frogs and toads. Radio telemetry provides fine-scale temporal and spatial information about an animal’s movements and habitat use; however, its use for tracking amphibians has been restricted by transmitter mass and lack of […]
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Popular Science published an article on Jesica Waller, a University of Maine master’s student in marine biology, and her winning photograph of a baby lobster. Over the summer, Waller raised thousands of lobsters in the lab to see how different climate change scenarios alter their development, according to the article. Her image of a live […]
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The National Park Service recently released an “Outside Science (inside parks)” video featuring a dragonfly mercury research project that was founded at the University of Maine. “Episode 2: Blue Skies and Dragonflies” explores a research collaboration among UMaine, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and National Park Service to study mercury in dragonfly larvae. The project […]
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