Assistant professor of anthropology and climate change Gregory Zaro and a colleague from Texas Tech University have received a grant of nearly $17,000 from the National Geographic Society to fund research into the abandonment of one of the many great ancient Maya cities of southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and Honduras.
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Saturday’s Bangor Daily News featured a story about UMaine research involving Prof. Steve Coghlan, a freshwater fisheries ecology expert, graduate student Rob Hogg and their colleagues. Based at a site on Brewer’s Sedgeunkedunk Stream, the researchers are studying sea lamprey and their impact on stream ecosystems.
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Maine Public Radio has posted online a recording of UMaine Prof. Paul Mayewski’s March talk, “Climate Change and the Role of Humans.” The statewide network broadcast the talk last Friday. Mayewski is director of UMaine’s Climate Change Institute.
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The June 26 Maine Sunday Telegram includes an opinion column, “Offshore wind has role in Maine’s future,” written by UMaine School of Economics Prof. Mario Teisl, in collaboration with his faculty colleagues Caroline Noblet, Shannon McCoy and Gary Hunt.
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“Climate Change and the Role of Humans,” a talk by Prof. Paul Mayewski, director of UMaine’s Climate Change Institute, will be broadcast on Maine Public Radio’s “Speaking in Maine” program Friday June 24 at 1 p.m. Mayewski gave the talk on March 31 at UMaine’s Collins Center for the Arts. It was presented by the […]
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The top quality and premium price of Maine sea scallops has some people interested in starting a cultured scallop industry in Maine. On Thursday, July 7 in Belfast, Dana Morse will present information on the advancing technology of scallop aquaculture to shellfish producers, chefs, fishermen, and others. Morse, who has visited scallop farms in Canada […]
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Comments from Prof. Ivan Fernandez of UMaine’s soil sciences faculty are included in a Bangor Daily News story about Sen. Susan Collins’ Thursday announcement that the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture’s New England Plant, Soil and Water Laboratory, located at UMaine, will remain open. Fernandez provided perspectives on the value of the work conducted at the […]
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Friday’s Portland Press Herald includes a story wrapping up the three-day EnergyOcean International conference held this week in Portland. In the story, Ken Fletcher, director of Maine’s state energy office pointed out that the state is “fully committed” to the development of energy sources from the ocean. UMaine is leading the DeepCWind Consortium, a broad-based, […]
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Community volunteers over the age of 50 are converging on the University of Maine campus June 16-18 for the 2011 Encore Leadership Corps Summit, a longstanding program designed to empower and inform volunteers from throughout the state on ways to serve and improve their communities.
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Prof. Len Kaye, director of UMaine’s Center on Aging, was quoted in a Central Maine Morning Sentinel feature story about the challenges faced by those providing care for elderly relatives. The story includes perspectives on the support services available for those in such situations, especially in Maine, where the story says that network is “expanding.”
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