The University of Maine Center on Aging has received a $147,000 award from the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) to build on previous research on volunteer participation among older adults. Older adults today are balancing multiple roles including working, caregiving, and helping in their community. The volunteer sector is looking for ways to […]
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By the middle of this century, the average spatial extent of summer heat waves in the United States could be up to 80% larger than they are today if greenhouse emissions continue unabated, according to a new study led by a University of Maine climate scientist. Bradfield Lyon, associate research professor with the UMaine Climate […]
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The Maine Division of the New England Society of American Foresters will hold its annual fall meeting Oct. 7–8 at the University of Maine. The meeting will be held 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. both days in Wells Conference Center and will focus on “Forest Certification: Its Legacy and Future in Maine.” The conference, which […]
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Improving stock assessment, management and sustainability of highly migratory species such as tuna, swordfish and sharks in the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico is the goal of a new research consortium, led by Walt Golet at the University of Maine and funded by a $1.6 million grant from NOAA Sea Grant. Funding to support […]
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The kickoff meeting of the Maine Climate Council was Sept. 26 in Hallowell. A video of the meeting is online. It includes presentations by Ivan Fernandez, UMaine professor of soil science and Distinguished Maine Professor in the School of Forest Resources, Climate Change Institute, and School of Food and Agriculture, and other members of the council, […]
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Brian Beal, professor of marine ecology at the University of Maine Machias, told the Bangor Daily News that invasive Asian shore crabs are probably a “ticking time bomb.” Beal was interviewed after Acadia National Park officials said a molted shell of an Asian shore crab was found Sept. 19 along the shore near Schoodic Point. […]
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Maine Public talked with Ivan Fernandez after the first meeting of the Maine Climate Council on Thursday. Fernandez, a University of Maine soil and forest scientist, said work on climate change is resuming at the state level. “Some faces here that I haven’t seen in about eight years,” Fernandez said. “We can continue our work.” […]
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University of Maine paleoecologist Jacquelyn Gill talked about her experiences exploring a permafrost cave in Siberia, as well as her medical scare there, with Rob Caldwell on News Center Maine’s 207. Gill was in Siberia in September 2018 to film “Lost Beasts of the Ice Age” for the Science Channel. She and other leading scientists […]
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To prevent conditions such as obesity and diabetes, as well as cardiovascular disease, researchers at the University of Maine are studying how the brain interacts with fat tissue. “Our brain needs to communicate with fat tissue to burn calories, to increase our heat production, and to keep us metabolically healthy,” says Kristy Townsend, associate professor […]
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The Bangor Daily News covered its sold-out “Bangor Daily Brews: Climate change and Maine’s next 200 years” event featuring University of Maine Climate Change Institute researchers Paul Mayewski, Sean Birkel and Cynthia Isenhour. “I think for a long time the media was treating this [climate change] as a situation in which there were two sides,” […]
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