Seacoastonline.com advanced Habib Dagher’s talk at 7 p.m. Aug. 6, at the York High School Auditorium. Dagher, founding director of the Advanced Structures and Composites Center at the University of Maine, will talk about capturing energy from wind over the Gulf of Maine and resultant advantages to the state. Dagher and UMaine colleagues have developed […]
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University of Maine professor Jeffrey Runge was cited in a story in The Ellsworth American about lobstermen and women rallying in Stonington to protest NOAA Fisheries rules that seek to protect endangered North Atlantic right whales from entanglements in lobster fishing gear. The lobster haulers say the rules will make fishing more dangerous and won’t […]
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Bob Steneck will present “Marine Ecosystems that Trump Climate Change: Seas of Good News in an Ocean of Worry” at 10:30 a.m. Friday, July 26, in Brooke Hall at the University of Maine Darling Marine Center in Walpole. Despite challenges that marine ecosystems face because of climate change, the UMaine marine ecologist says it’s “too […]
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A new study by Alessio Mortelliti, an assistant professor of wildlife habitat ecology at the University of Maine, finds small mammals could affect whether trees spread to new areas in a warming climate. Mortelliti’s research, which was published in the journal Oikos, looks at the behavior of small forest mammals that eat acorns and other […]
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University of Maine third-year marine sciences major and honors student Brynn Yarbrough of Wrentham, Massachusetts has been named a 2019 Ernest F. Hollings Undergraduate Scholar by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Yarbrough is one of 125 Hollings Scholars nationwide selected this year by the NOAA Office of Education to receive a two-year academic […]
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New University of Maine building and road signage on campus is now bilingual — English and Penobscot. Signs for Memorial Gym and New Balance Student Recreation Center note the names in Penobscot — αttali-milahəyαwələtimək — translated as “place where you play a variety of games.” At Fogler Library, awihkhikaní-wikəwαm means “book house”; at Wells Conference […]
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Rick Wahle will present “The American Lobster — Poster Child of a Changing Marine Ecosystem” at 10:30 a.m. July 19 in Brooke Hall at the University of Maine Darling Marine Center in Walpole. Wahle directs the Lobster Institute, a center of scholarship and outreach in the university’s College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture. The […]
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Gayle Zydlewski will talk about “Marine Science for Maine People: With a Surprise or Two” at 10:30 a.m. July 12 in Brooke Hall at the University of Maine Darling Marine Center in Walpole. Zydlewski directs the Maine Sea Grant College Program, a state-federal partnership with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Maine Sea Grant […]
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Want to learn more about local marine science research? Friends and neighbors are invited to a free social at the University of Maine Darling Marine Center 4–5:30 p.m. July 11, to meet DMC scientists and students and learn about new and ongoing summer projects. “We want to share some of the exciting new research initiatives […]
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Darren Ranco, associate professor of anthropology and coordinator of Native American research, talked with News Center Maine about Penobscot language being added to signage on campus. The University of Maine is on Marsh Island, which Ranco says was the most important residential island, especially before the 19th century, for Penobscot people. “That sense of recognition, […]
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