The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) will invest more than $4 million to help diversify and grow the Maine economy, which includes new funds designed to aid the forest sector, announced U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development Matt Erskine in a news conference at the University of Maine July […]
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Read transcript Over the last year, Rhian Waller, associate professor of marine science at the University of Maine, has been to the ends of the Earth to study how changing oceans are affecting cold-water corals and what those changes may eventually mean in places like the Gulf of Maine. Waller’s research team included three undergraduate […]
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Recent graduate Noelle Leon-Palmer says the University of Maine provided her a rewarding college experience in the classroom studying biology and writing an honors thesis, as well as on the field as a member of the women’s soccer team. Leon-Palmer, of Ajax, a town in Ontario, Canada, graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in […]
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The University of Maine College of Engineering is hosting the Maine Summer Transportation Institute from July 11–22. More than 20 middle school students from the Greater Bangor area are attending the institute, which is supported by a grant from the Federal Highway Administration. The program is designed to introduce students at an early age to […]
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As the sun rises over Bass Harbor, Maine, Jim Dow and crew fish for lobsters — retrieving and baiting traps and measuring and banding lobsters. Jim Dow is vice president of the Maine Lobstermen’s Association, and sits on the board of advisors of the University of Maine Lobster Institute. UMaine has been a leader in […]
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Read transcript In 1980, Maine’s North Woods was a sea of gray, the result of a spruce budworm infestation that decimated millions of acres. The eastern spruce budworm is believed to be the most damaging forest insect in Maine and North America. Outbreaks of the insect that kills balsam fir and spruce trees occur every […]
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Read transcript University of Maine researchers, including Kit Hamley, explore how extinct and introduced animals affect the Falkland Islands and seek to help farmers, sheep, tussock grass, tourists and penguins coexist in light of competing interests, sea-level rise and erosion. Hamley helped develop the 4-H Follow A ResearcherTM program at UMaine, which connects K–12 students […]
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Aaron Putnam, assistant professor with the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, is searching for clues in Mongolia about what “caused the Earth to lurch out of the last ice age.” Kevin Stark, a graduate student at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, is embedded with Putnam’s research team and is blogging about the expedition. […]
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Uranium mining in Australia is polluting the Antarctic, about 6,000 nautical miles away. University of Maine climate scientists made the discovery during the first high-resolution continuous examination of a northern Antarctic Peninsula ice core. Ice core data reveal a significant increase in uranium concentration that coincides with open pit mining in the Southern Hemisphere, most […]
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University of Maine assistant professor Michelle Smith was a keynote speaker at the Knowledge Exchange on Undergraduate STEM Education in Virginia. The National Science Foundation nominated Smith, the C. Ann Merrifield Professorship in Life Science Education in the School of Biology and Ecology and the RiSE Center, to take part in the collaborative. Representatives from […]
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