Alaska Dispatch reported on a collaborative ice core-drilling project in Alaska’s Denali National Park by the University of Maine, Dartmouth University and the University of New Hampshire. UMaine researchers include climate change scientist Karl Kreutz, Research Assistant Professor Sean Birkel and graduate students Seth Campbell and Tim Godaire. The project aims to help researchers better […]
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Edward Grew, a research professor in the University of Maine School of Earth and Climate Sciences, was one of several researchers to aid geologists at the University of California, Riverside in their discovery of a new mineral, which they named qingsongite. Australian Mining and UCR Today carried reports.
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ThinkProgress spoke with Robert Steneck, professor in the School of Marine Sciences at the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center, and Andrew Pershing, professor in the Gulf of Maine Research Institute at UMaine, for the article “Lobster bubble: Maine’s lobster boom, and why experts predict a dramatic bust.” Steneck and Pershing spoke about the warming temperatures […]
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University of Maine, Maine Maritime Academy and partners receive $983,997 from the National Science Foundation for the creation of a unique offshore wind-wave generating system.
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The Portland Press Herald, Mainebiz and the Bangor Daily News were among several news organizations to write about a quarterly jobs economic report released by the Maine Development Foundation and the University of Maine’s School of Economics. The study found the productivity of Maine workers is one of the worst in the nation due to the […]
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Amy Blackstone, sociologist at the University of Maine, spoke with WLBZ (Channel 2) about International Childfree Day. Blackstone researches childfree-by-choice adults and the stigma that surrounds them. She also maintains a blog with her husband titled “we’re {not} having a baby! childfree adventures in a child-centric world.”
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Krish Thiagarajan, the University of Maine’s Alston D. and Ada Lee Correll Presidential Chair in Energy and mechanical engineering professor, spoke with the Maine Public Broadcasting Network about a nearly $1 million energy grant from the National Science Foundation that was awarded to the University of Maine, Maine Maritime Academy and two partner organizations. The […]
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Kreutz studies climate’s impact on sea level rise at 14,000 feet.
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The National Institutes of Health has awarded $380,000 to researchers at the University of Maine Center on Aging, University of New England (UNE) and The Iris Network to study a falls prevention program for older citizens with vision impairment. Falls among older adults can lead to serious injury, loss of independence or death. The two-year […]
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Aug. 1, the Maine Development Foundation and the University of Maine’s School of Economics released the first of a series of quarterly reports analyzing critical economic indicators in Maine and exploring in detail the reasons for — and impacts of — Maine’s comparatively low worker productivity. Professor Todd Gabe wrote the inaugural report that focuses […]
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