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Tracking Tidal Marsh Birds

Students collect data that could predict how animals will respond to climate change and future landscape development.

Economist Participating in Energy Study Tour in Canada

A University of Maine researcher who specializes in the economics of energy, light-duty transportation, greenhouse gas emissions and alternative fuels is heading to Alberta, Canada, Aug. 28-30 to participate in a tour of the Canadian oil sands region, which contains one of the largest proven oil reserves in the world second only to Saudi Arabia. […]

Workshop to focus on growing seaweed

In Maine and elsewhere, aquaculturists, harvesters, researchers and those in the business of making products from marine macroalgae are increasingly interested in seaweed. This is due to some innovative research being conducted in the region, and because Maine now has the first and only commercial kelp aquaculture operation in the United States, Portland-based Ocean Approved […]

On the Hunt for Deep-sea Corals

The National Geographic website highlights UMaine marine scientist Rhian Waller’s research in Chile.

Novel Sensor Research

A Maine oyster farmer’s experience inspires graduate students to develop a system for detecting pollutants in seawater.

Advanced Structures and Composites Center Contributes to Brooklyn Bridge Park Project

The Advanced Structures and Composites Center tests black locust samples bound for a park near the famed Brooklyn Bridge.

UMaine Aquaculture Research, Facilities on Display in Open House Event

The University of Maine’s Aquaculture Research Institute (ARI) facilities and latest research findings will be the focus of a two-day open house event Aug. 23-24 at UMaine’s research centers in Walpole, Franklin and Orono. Tours and activities will be held at all three sites at 1 p.m. on Aug. 23, and in Orono on Aug. […]

Holocene Warming Regional

Research confirms regional — not global — climate change in New Zealand and European glaciers during the preindustrial Holocene.

Bangor Daily News Reports Chilean Forestry Trip

The Bangor Daily News carried an article about University of Maine Forest Bioproducts Research Institute faculty members who are leading a group of college students from across the country on a weeklong field trip to Chile to study forest sustainability and forest products manufacturing. FBRI faculty members David Neivandt and Douglas Gardner are teaching a […]

UMaine Faculty Members Taking Students to Chile

University of Maine Forest Bioproducts Research Institute faculty members David Neivandt and Douglas Gardner will accompany 10 undergraduate students from across the country on a weeklong trip to Chile as part of a National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates (NSF REU) program, a 10-week summer research experience based at UMaine and funded by the […]