A new interactive, online tool that allows high-resolution exploration and display of spatial data sets of Maine woodlands will help provide more information about the state’s forest resources to stakeholders — from landowners to researchers and policymakers. The Maine Forest Spatial Tool, developed by the University of Maine Center for Research on Sustainable Forests, provides […]
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The shared history of Maine and Wabanaki people will be the focus of a Maine-Wabanaki REACH event Monday, Sept. 19 at the Collins Center for the Arts at the University of Maine. “Truth, Healing and Change in the Land of the Dawn” will be held 6–8 p.m. in the Bodwell Lounge. The discussion will touch […]
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The Maine State Library is one of four institutions nationwide selected to receive National Endowment for the Humanities funding to join the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). NDNP is a partnership between NEH, the Library of Congress and state partners, focused on the digitization of newspapers representing historical, cultural and geographic diversity, according to a […]
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Katherine Allen is an ocean historian. But instead of poring through old texts, she studies the chemical composition of tiny ancient fossil shells in Southwest Pacific marine sediment. Allen, a research assistant professor at the University of Maine, says these marine fossils — which have been accumulating on the seafloor for millions of years — […]
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Access to Maine’s beaches and coastal areas can sometimes be a challenge. According to the latest analysis of property ownership data by the Maine Coastal Program, the public owns just 12 percent of Maine’s 5,400-mile shoreline. Public rights to the rest of the coast vary considerably, from submerged areas below low tide through the intertidal […]
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Molly Jacobs, a visiting researcher from McDaniel College in Maryland, will present a brown bag seminar, “Age-appropriate outfits? Decorating behavior in juvenile and adult decorator crabs,” at noon Thursday, Sept. 15 at the University of Maine Darling Marine Center. Decorator crabs hide from predators by covering themselves with materials from their environment. In young crabs, […]
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The University of Maine is one of 37 colleges, universities and educational groups nationwide to receive first-ever awards for the National Science Foundation’s INCLUDES program, a comprehensive initiative to enhance U.S. leadership in science and engineering by broadening participation in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). UMaine will receive $300,000 for a […]
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Read transcript In summer 2016, students from the University of Maine, University of Maine at Machias and the University of New England became SEA (Science for Economic Impact & Application) Fellows. Knowledge gained from hands-on research projects involving oysters, lobster shell hardness and disease, clam growth and surface runoff in the Damariscotta River estuary is […]
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Maine is home to more than 17 million acres of forestland, making it the most heavily wooded state in the nation, and the forest products industry has long been an important part of the state’s economy. Lu Wang, a Ph.D. candidate in the University of Maine School of Forest Resources housed at the Advanced Structures […]
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Alumnus Maxwell McCormack Jr., emeritus, School of Forest Resources, will be presented with the prestigious 2016 Austin H. Wilkins Forest Stewardship Award in a Blaine House ceremony Sept. 8. The award recognizes people or organizations for their excellence in furthering forestry, forests or forestland conservation in Maine. Started by the Maine TREE Foundation in 2004, […]
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