Two papers written by University of Maine graduate students received first-place awards at the recent International Annual Meetings of the Soil Science Society of America in San Antonio, Texas.
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The University of Maine Office of the Vice President for Research has announced recipients of faculty research awards by the Maine Economic Improvement Fund to support the use of high-end instrumentation.
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University of Maine ecologist Jasmine Saros provided research for a groundbreaking finding about the long-term effects of pollution published in the Dec. 16 issue of the journal Science.
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Maine’s beech trees have been under attack for decades by a disease that typically shows up as disfiguring cankers on a tree species that is supposed to have a smooth and silvery bark. Affected trees grow slowly and can survive for years. Unfortunately, the diseased trees produce few beechnuts, a loss of an important food source […]
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ORONO, Maine – Clams of all kind are big business in New England, but the razor or jackknife clam, while worth between $2.50 and $6 per pound, has not been a focus of clam diggers. The elongated, elusive bivalve is hard to dig from the mud and usually only accessible at extremely low tides, resulting […]
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The website Environmental Research Web posted information about research done by UMaine engineer Shaleen Jain and a former UMaine graduate student. Jain, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, researched the the impact of past typhoons on the Korean peninsula, providing climate risk analysis to help officials make informed decisions about how and there […]
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Emily Ann Cain, the Maine House of Representatives Minority Floor Leader, will spend the day at the University of Maine on Tuesday, Dec. 6 as part of the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center Distinguished Maine Policy Fellow Program. Cain is a UMaine graduate and current graduate student who represents House District 19, which includes part […]
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A five-part series by Voice of America News about how climate change and rising temperatures are affecting Africa includes an extensive interview with University of Maine Climate Change Institute Director Paul Mayewski, who provided perspective on the increasing pace of climate change globally. South Africa is about to host an international conference on climate change.
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Prof. George Criner of the UMaine School of Economics and senior economics major Travis Blackmer were interviewed for a WLBZ television story about an extensive project analyzing the content municipal trash in 17 Maine communities. Initial results suggest that 20 percent of the discarded trash could have been recycled, saving those municipalities significant amounts of […]
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ORONO, Maine – University of Maine geochemist Amanda Olsen is part of a national research team that is starting a database to help scientists understand the speed at which environmental reactions take place.
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