The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $1.65 million across a team of researchers at five institutions that includes Shawn Fraver, associate professor of forest ecology at the University of Maine School of Forest Resources, to study methane sinks in Northern Forests. The total award to UMaine is $239,679. Methane is second only to carbon dioxide […]
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As part of their series “Climate Driven: A deep dive into Maine’s response, one county at a time,” Maine Public featured the University of Maine’s Howland Research Forest, where scientists have undertaken groundbreaking studies on acid rain, forest ecology and soil health. At the research forest, carbon and other greenhouse gas measurements are continuously recorded […]
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University of Maine graduate student Emily Filiberti of Fairfax, Vermont has spent her summer in the woods of Wisconsin tracking forest songbirds. With the guidance of her adviser Amber Roth, assistant professor of forest wildlife management at UMaine, Filiberti is studying the survival rate of the birds using the Motus Wildlife Tracking System, an international […]
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Ivan Fernandez, distinguished Maine professor at the School of Forest Resources, Climate Change Institute and School of Food and Agriculture, was a panelist on the Maine Public radio show “Maine On Point” for an episode about how carbon sequestration in Maine can help slow climate change.
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Shane O’Neill, the forest industry business development manager at the University of Maine’s School of Forest Resources, was interviewed by the Bangor Daily News about how the new 30-ton weight limit on the Llewellyn G. Estes Memorial Bridge in Old Town impacts the transportation of forest products. O’Neill told the BDN that the bridge over […]
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The Bangor Daily News, Mount Desert Islander and Travel and Tour World shared a study from the University of Maine that shows bringing together academics and tourism developers on Mount Desert Island (MDI) is an effective way to identify climate change impacts and determine what can be done to address them given a community’s strengths, […]
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Angela Mech, assistant professor of forest entomology at the University of Maine, was featured on the podcast Something Offbeat by News Radio 1080 KRLD in Dallas-Fort Worth discussing how climate change might impact the way human and insect worlds interact. “We’re seeing, you know, shifting of species being found where they typically weren’t before,” Mech […]
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Nanocellulose may help increase the yield from wild blueberry plants when used with liquid fertilizer applied to leaves, according to a new University of Maine study. Nanocellulose, a natural polymer derived from trees and plants that has many desirable properties, is used in research and development for a myriad of applications, such as packaging materials, […]
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The Portland Press Herald and Centralmaine.com featured a presentation about the threats the emerald ash borer poses to brown ash trees from John Daigle, a University of Maine professor of forest recreation management and citizen member of the Penobscot Nation, and his Ph.D. students.
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New technology can enhance the carbon storage of harvested wood products in Maine by using the materials for innovative, longer-lasting end uses such as building materials, according to a study led by the University of Maine. Harvested wood products used in buildings, paper, biochar and more all store carbon. Agencies like the Intergovernmental Panel on […]
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