From the Lab to the Field

The Aquaculture Research Institute launches a mussel raft to investigate potential disease benefits for farmed salmon.

UMaine Researchers Featured in Museum Video

University of Maine Climate Change Institute researchers Aaron Putnam and Toby Koffman are among those featured in a video being shown at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City about how a new technique called surface exposure dating can help them analyze how the climate has changed over time. The video “Shrinking […]

New Study Links Social Anxiety and Dating Aggression

Psychology researchers find that fear of negative evaluation put young men at risk for increased aggression in romantic relationships.

UMaine Economist Part of National Energy Project

Researchers find fuels of the future will be cleaner and cheaper if the U.S. adopts a national Low Carbon Fuel Standard.

Oceanographer Testifies About Climate Change and Fisheries Management

Andrew Pershing, a biological oceanographer with the University of Maine and Gulf of Maine Research Institute, testified in a July 19 Congressional hearing about the need to consider the role of climate change in marine fisheries management. The hearing of the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans and Insular Affairs considered three bills, including HR 6096 […]

Handling the Effects of Abrupt Climate Change

A new graduate program funded by NSF will focus on the need to adapt policies and strategies to meet social and environmental needs.

Gulf of Maine Buoy System Awarded Grant to Continue Ocean Monitoring

Coastal, maritime and marine science communities, including researchers at the University of Maine, will benefit from federal funding of $2 million recently awarded to the Northeastern Regional Association of Coastal Observing Systems, known as NERACOOS. The Gulf of Maine buoy array operated by the University of Maine Physical Oceanography Group under the direction of UMaine […]

Technology Research Center Opens in Old Town

New project will connect private industry with UMaine researchers in order to validate, demonstrate and help commercialize developing fuel, chemical and advanced material technologies from forest bioproducts.

Graduate Student Explores Link Between Carbon Dioxide and Blindness in Cod

Based on extensive studies carried out in the last five years, researchers have determined why cod living at high densities developed cataracts.

Study Finds Relationship Between Dairy Food Intake and Arterial Stiffness

Adults who include dairy foods in their diets might be reducing their arterial stiffness and decreasing their risk of cardiovascular disease, according to a new study by researchers from the University of South Australia, the University of
Maine and Australian National University.

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