Signature and Emerging Areas

Fernandez talks about Maine Climate Council action plan on ‘Maine Calling’

Ivan Fernandez, a professor of soil science and forest resources and cooperating professor in the Climate Change Institute, was a recent guest on Maine Public’s “Maine Calling.” The show’s topic was about the Maine Climate Council’s four-year action plan to address climate change. Fernandez is one of two scientists who serve the council.

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BDN interviews Dixon about reducing plastic use

The Bangor Daily News interviewed Daniel Dixon, director of the Office of Sustainability and research assistant professor in the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, about how to reduce plastic use. Purchasing reusable items in lieu of disposable ones can help decrease plastic consumption, but Dixon said they must be used carefully to […]

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WABI interviews Dagher about saving lives with local innovation

WABI (Channel 5) interviewed Habib Dagher, founding executive director of the Advanced Structures and Composites Center, about the impacts of ballistic technology developed at the University of Maine. “I was in my office, and I got a call one day,” Dagher said. “Someone from the Army, someone in Afghanistan that said, ‘thank you very much. […]

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Fernandez to take part in ‘Maine Calling’ show about Maine Climate Council action plan

Ivan Fernandez, a professor of soil science and forest resources and cooperating professor in the Climate Change Institute, will participate in a Maine Calling discussion about the Maine Climate Council’s four-year action plan to address climate change. Fernandez is one of two scientists who serve the council.  Hannah Pingree, director of the Maine Office of Policy Innovation & […]

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News Center Maine highlights UNE documentary featuring Wahle

News Center Maine reported on a documentary created by the University of England about the effects of climate change on Maine that features Richard Wahle, a research professor in the University of Maine School of Marine Sciences and director of the Loberst Institute at UMaine. “Reckoning with Climate Change in the Gulf of Maine,” which […]

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BDN interviews UMaine experts about proposed salmon farm in Belfast

The Bangor Daily News interviewed three University of Maine experts from the School of Marine Sciences and School of Earth and Climate Sciences about the possible environmental effects of what is expected to be one of the world’s largest indoor salmon farms proposed for construction near the Little River in Belfast. Damian Brady, an associate […]

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Kreutz co-authors ‘Stories from the Ice’ in Shared Voices

Karl Kreutz co-wrote “Stories from the Ice” in Shared Voices, the UArctic Magazine. The professor with the Climate Change Institute and School of Earth and Climate Sciences co-authored the article with Cameron Wake, research professor at the University of New Hampshire; Erich Osterberg, associate professor at Dartmouth College; and Alison Criscitiello, director of the Canadian […]

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Media advance seminar about lobster industry, climate change

The Wiscasset Newspaper, the Lincoln County News and The Free Press shared a media release about the University of Maine Darling Marine Center’s virtual seminar at 10:30 a.m. July 10. Robert Steneck, professor of oceanography, marine biology and marine policy in the School of Marine Sciences, will talk about “Maine’s changing lobster fishery: some direct and […]

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Maine Public talks with Mayewski about ‘Expedition Everest’

Maine Public interviewed Paul Mayewski, director of the Climate Change Institute, about his participation in the National Geographic and Rolex Perpetual Planet Everest Expedition. Mayewski served as expedition leader and lead scientist. He was joined by five CCI colleagues on the international mission. National Geographic premiered “Expedition Everest” on June 30. The one-hour show was […]

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Steneck to discuss climate impacts on lobster industry during virtual seminar

Robert Steneck will present “Maine’s changing lobster fishery: some direct and indirect impacts of climate change” at 10:30 a.m. Friday, July 10, during a webinar hosted by the University of Maine Darling Marine Center in Walpole.  “Challenges for this fishery have never been greater,” says the UMaine marine ecologist. “Today, the economic impact of COVID-19, […]

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