More than 500 attendees, including sea farmers and marine researchers from the Damariscotta area, attended the Northeast Aquaculture Conference & Exposition held Jan. 11–13 in Providence, Rhode Island. “There was a really good number of producers and scientists, including a lot of young people there, both from the entrepreneur side and science side,” says Dana […]
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For tens of thousands of years, the warm, sticky natural asphalt that occasionally bubbled to the Earth’s surface in the area now called Los Angeles was a death sentence for some ice age animals. Woolly mammoths, camels, rabbits, horses, bison, sloths, rodents, snails, turtles, birds and saber-toothed cats perished after becoming mired in the liquid […]
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The Herring Gut Learning Center, a nonprofit marine education center in Port Clyde, has selected University of Maine Ph.D. candidate Samuel Belknap as its next executive director. Belknap is currently pursuing a doctorate in anthropology and environmental policy through Adaptation to Abrupt Climate Change, a National Science Foundation IGERT fellowship program. A native of Midcoast […]
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Editor’s note: Video of Jan. 19 announcement. Advanced Infrastructure Technologies (AIT), a University of Maine spinoff company, has signed an exclusive distribution and marketing agreement for North America with Terre Armee Group/Reinforced Earth Company (TA/RECo). This formative agreement will help grow adoption of UMaine’s patented composite arch bridge technology in North America, with the intent […]
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The Maine Discovery Museum is unveiling a sea farming exhibit that uses virtual reality technology and interactivity to bring aquaculture to life. The University of Maine’s Aquaculture Research Institute and Maine EPSCoR Sustainable Ecological Aquaculture Network (SEANET) program provided support for the first dedicated interactive aquaculture exhibit in the country. “It’s perfect timing,” says Trudi […]
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In honor of Martin Luther King Jr., members of the University of Maine community will pack an estimated 40,000 meals for distribution to local food pantries on Jan. 21. The project is a partnership among the UMaine Bodwell Center for Service and Volunteerism, Honors College and Office of Multicultural Student Life, as well as the […]
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A tiny storm rages at the University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center. Simulated wind and waves beat against the hull of a model FPSO vessel in conditions comparable to a 100-year storm off the coast of western Africa. Watching from the side of the wind-wave basin in the Alfond W2 Ocean Engineering Laboratory, […]
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Long-term changes in weather are affecting Maine agriculture, bringing both risks and potential opportunities for farmers in the state. At the University of Maine, faculty initiated the Maine Climate and Agriculture Network to improve coordination among faculty, staff and students on the subject. The network recently published a fact sheet that outlines observations of how […]
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The Edward A. Myers Marine Conservation Fund’s $2,000 donation to the Darling Marine Center K–12 education program facilitated field trip visits by 900 local students and supplied marine touch tanks to area festivals. The funds were raised at the annual Pemaquid Oyster Festival in Damariscotta. “We appreciate that the Edward Myers Fund has continued to […]
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University of Maine senior Han Nguyen found her passion in an Introduction to Chemistry course her first year on campus. The Vietnam native enjoyed the intellectual challenges the course presented and especially liked the related laboratory work. And Nguyen came to appreciate chemistry’s role in daily life — from the clothes we wear to the […]
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