The University of Maine Aroostook Farm was in a Portland Press Herald article about Maine malt for local craft beer (http://www.pressherald.com/2015/07/12/maine-malt-for-local-craft-beer-has-arrived/). Aroostook Farm in Presque Isle is participating in malt barley field trials. Joel Alex of Blue Ox Malthouse began making malt a couple of months ago using a system built for him at the […]
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Aquaculture Magazine published an article about Acadia Harvest, a commercial land-based, indoor fish farm, that’s partnering with the University of Maine and its Center for Cooperative Aquaculture Research on an $8 million project to raise black sea bass and California yellowtail. “Ninety percent of our seafood today is imported. We’d like to change that. We […]
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The Boston Globe published the article “A look at rare lobsters caught in New England,” which cites statistics from the Lobster Institute at the University of Maine. The article includes photos of and information on rare crustaceans caught in New England in recent years. Each type of lobster — blue, yellow-orange, calico, split-color and albino […]
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The Science on Tap Seminar series, sponsored by the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center (DMC), continues at the Newcastle Publick House, 6–7 p.m. on Wednesdays in July. July 15, the free public seminar, “Spying on our oceans with satellites and robots,” will be presented by Mary Jane Perry. The productivity of the oceans depends […]
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University of Maine marine scientists are part of a team that discovered chloride — the most common dissolved substance in seawater — can leave the ocean by sticking to organic particles that settle out of surface water and become buried in marine sediment. The discovery helps explain the fate of chloride in the ocean over […]
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The Associated Press reported University of Maine scientists are working on a project to use DNA to locate invasive fish species in rivers and lakes. Michael Kinnison, professor of evolutionary applications at UMaine, is leading the project that will adapt emerging environmental DNA (eDNA) approaches to detect the presence of invasive species, and other aquatic […]
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A 2011 study by the University of Maine School of Economics was cited in the Bangor Daily News article, “How Maine towns are trying to throw away less and save more.” The study found 22 percent of what Mainers throw away can be recycled and 38 percent composted, according to the article.
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Karen Pianka, a graduate student in the School of Marine Sciences at the University of Maine, has been awarded a Sea Grant Knauss Fellowship that begins in February 2016. Named after John A. Knauss, a founder of Sea Grant, a program of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the fellowship matches graduate students with […]
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USA Today, ABC News, UPI, WMTW (Channel 8 in Portland) and the Portland Press Herald cited statistics from the Lobster Institute at the University of Maine for a report about an orange and brown split-colored lobster that was found at the Pine Point Fisherman’s Co-Op in Scarborough. According to researchers at the institute, the chances […]
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The Maine Edge reported on a short film written and directed by Ryan Shelley, a graduate student in the Intermedia MFA program, that will be shown as part of the Maine Shorts series at the Maine International Film Festival. “Harvey’s Dream” is a 12-minute film based on the short story by Stephen King. The film […]
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