The Associated Press reported that the University of Maine will partner with the U.S. Department of Agriculture for their New England Climate-Smart Forest Partnership Project, which will build markets for climate-smart forest products to store carbon in wood products and substitute wood products for fossil fuel-based materials. The project could receive as much as $30 […]
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The Bangor Daily News, CentralMaine.com and Sun Journal boosted a talk hosted by the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine about the unanticipated consequences of successful seal conservation in the Gulf of Maine at 3 p.m. on Sept. 26. Kristina Cammen, an assistant professor with the UMaine School […]
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In an article about the costs the wild blueberry producers will have to incur for irrigation in light of hotter and drier summers, the Bangor Daily News cited information from University of Maine Cooperative Extension showing that long-term weather trends suggest that blueberry fields will get sufficient water in August in only one year out […]
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In an article covering the 2022 Nanocellulose Technology Market report, Digital Journal noted that the University of Maine was listed as one of the best key players alongside the U.S. Forest Service, Celluforce, American Process and others.
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Helping decarbonize the plastic chemicals industry by developing a new reactor that relies on solar energy will be the focus of a Department of Energy (DOE)-funded project led by the University of Maine. Justin Lapp, a UMaine assistant professor of mechanical engineering, is spearheading the effort to create the novel thermochemical reactor that could eliminate […]
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Lenard Kaye, director of the University of Maine’s Center on Aging and professor at the School of Social Work, spoke to The Maine Monitor about Homeward Bound, a program which helps seniors and adults with disabilities transition from nursing homes and hospitals back to community-based care settings. Kaye said that programs like Homeward Bound offer […]
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Phys.org and Spectrum News reported that a new study from the University of Maine shows how to reduce the costs associated with a proposed new method of using kelp farming to remove excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
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The Maine Monitor quoted Darren Ranco, professor of anthropology at the University of Maine, in an article about toxic PFAS compounds concentrating over time in landfills near the Penobscot Indian Reservation, which threaten both the health of tribal members and traditions that bound them through millennia to the waterway they know as “pαnawάhpskek.” “Our holy […]
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The Maine Monitor interviewed Jean MacRae, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Maine, to answer questions about PFAS. Maine has some of the highest levels of PFAS water contamination she has seen in her work with communities around the country, possibly because this state is at the forefront of testing. […]
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The Maine Monitor spoke to Jean MacRae, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Maine, about LD 1911, a bill that would redirect much of the state’s PFAS-contaminated sludge to the state-owned Juniper Ridge Landfill, located in Old Town near the Penobscot Reservation. Sevee & Maher Engineering has been hired to […]
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