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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The Free Press published an article on cold-water coral formations in the Gulf of Maine. Since 2013 scientists funded through NOAA’s Deep Sea Coral Research and Technology Program have been conducting research cruises in the Gulf of Maine using remotely controlled underwater vehicles and multibeam sonar to identify cold-water coral communities, according to the article. […]
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Centuries of discoveries that document the diversity of life on Earth will be more accessible than ever with the help of National Science Foundation grants awarded to institutions across the country, including the University of Maine. The initiative will allow scientists and the public to view online collections of plant and fungal specimens that once […]
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) reported on marine slug research led by Douglas Rasher, a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Maine Darling Marine Center, and researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology. The researchers found the marine slug Elysia tuca sniffs out the seaweed Halimeda incrassate so it can steal the algae’s chloroplasts and […]
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An analysis on Maine drug deaths was cited in a Portland Press Herald article on a candlelight vigil and march held in Portland’s Monument Square to remember those who have died from drug overdoses and to spread the message that addiction can be overcome. The analysis was released by the Maine attorney general’s office and […]
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Earth Science student studies boulders deposited in Peru by glaciers, benefits from geology internship
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CBS New York cited research by University of Maine scientists for a report about a pending ban on lobster harvesting in the Long Island Sound. The moratorium aims to boost a lobster population that has decreased 95 percent, according to the report. Temperatures in the sound have warmed several degrees beyond what lobsters can tolerate, […]
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