In a story titled “Cambodia fishermen struggle as the sea warms,” Reuters cited data from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer showing that temperature spikes in the waters surrounding Cambodia have become more frequent since 2010. Yahoo! News and WHBL (101.5 FM in Sheboygan, Wisconsin), shared the Reuters report.
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WFVX (Channel 7) and The Bangor Daily News featured research and development efforts to bolster the state’s edible insect industry involving Rob Dumas, food science innovation coordinator at the University of Maine.
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Reuters spoke to Habib Dagher, founding executive director of the Advanced Structures and Composites Center at the University of Maine, about scaling up offshore wind energy production in the Gulf of Maine. “We often call it the 1, 10, 100 plan. It includes putting a single turbine in the water first, then 10 turbines, then […]
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In an article about the impact of warming seas on Cambodian crab fisherman, Reuters cited data from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer noting that temperature spikes have become increasingly common in oceans along Cambodia’s coastline since 2010. WTVB (95.5 FM in Coldwater, Michigan) shared the Reuters report.
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University of Maine ecology professor Brian McGill helped discover that the average body sizes of fish are shrinking as part of an international project with 16 other researchers. The team, led by University of York macroecologist Inês Martins, analyzed the body size trends of numerous plants and animals worldwide from 1960–2020 using data from the […]
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The Maine Council on Aging announced that Clifford Singer, research professor at the University of Maine, has received the 2023 Trailblazing Advocate Award, and Patricia Oh, senior program manager at the UMaine Center on Aging, received the Douglas O. Wilson Rising Tide Leadership Award. The 2023 Trailblazing Advocate Award recognizes the sustained contributions of trailblazers […]
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In an article about record global temperatures and flooding, the Washington Post cited data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration charted by the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer showing that global average sea surface temperatures, excluding polar regions, have been hovering at or around record highs for six weeks.
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In an article about visualizations of climate change data, USA Today highlighted the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer, which gathers data from the National Weather Service and elsewhere to generate visualizations to show changes in the planet’s climate.
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In an article about a Japanese company that 3D-printed a 530-square-foot concrete tiny home, Business Insider noted that the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center has 3D-printed a fully recyclable tiny home using wood waste.
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In reporting about how El Niño has pushed global monthly mean ocean temperatures to all-time high, Hindustan Times cited information from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Change Reanalyzer demonstrating that sea surface temperatures observed since April show a far sharper spike than the warming over land, especially when compared with the long-term […]
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