An article by The Forecaster on Portland adjusting to cruise industry changes cites a University of Maine study on the economic effects of ships in the city. The 2009 study, which was funded by Portland and conducted by UMaine economics professors Todd Gabe and James McConnon, estimated cruise ship visits contribute between $5.8 million and […]
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Mother Jones carried a Climate Desk report on research by Noah Oppenheim, a marine biology graduate student at the University of Maine, that suggests climate change is creating cannibalism among lobsters. Oppenheim came to the discovery after capturing on an underwater camera adult lobsters eating adolescent ones. The Climate Desk is a collaboration between Mother Jones, […]
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Mainebiz reported Terry Porter, an associate professor in the Maine Business School at the University of Maine, has won a Fulbright Scholarship to research how and why businesses adopt sustainability practices. Porter will conduct her research at Cardiff University in the United Kingdom in spring 2014.
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The Bloomberg article “Mother of golf prodigy in hazing death defied by FratPAC” cited the University of Maine’s National Study on Student Hazing. The UMaine research says six states lack anti-hazing laws, and at least seven others have statutes that don’t make it a crime in the absence of injuries.
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Nick Brown, director of the University of Maine’s Center for Cooperative Aquaculture Research, spoke with the Maine Public Broadcasting Network about plans for a third proposed fish farming operation in the fishing village Corea. Brown has been preparing for test studies on black sea bass and California yellowtail — the types of fish Brunswick-based RAS […]
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Katherine Mills, researcher at the University of Maine and Gulf of Maine Research Institute, spoke with the Maine Public Broadcasting Network about a new study on the decline of North American Atlantic Salmon populations that analyzes data from the past three decades. The study, which was recently published in Global Change Biology magazine, was written by […]
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WLBZ (Channel 2) reported offshore wind power supporters hope the University of Maine and Statoil can work together on a proposed pilot project despite political controversy.
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Coverage by the Bangor Daily News and WLBZ (Channel 2) on a Bangor City Council workshop to address the noise complaints made during Waterfront Concerts included a reference to a study completed earlier this year by Todd Gabe, University of Maine economics professor. Gabe’s study found the Waterfront Concerts have generated more than $30 million in […]
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Four of the founding members of the Ocean Energy Institute contributed an op-ed to the Bangor Daily News focused on the innovation and job-creating potential of UMaine’s offshore wind research. In 2007, Ocean Energy Institute initiated the drive to determine the technical and economic practicality of offshore wind for Maine.
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Advanced Structures and Composites Center research to retrofit aging concrete flat-slab bridges was the focus of a July 19 story in the Bangor Daily News. Civil Engineering graduate student Hannah Loring and professor William Davids lead the research.
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