Arborists will be working on campus this month to remove browntail moth nests from trees. The Angela Mech lab led the identification of the browntail moth infestations on campus, largely in crab apple and oak trees. The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry announced that February is Browntail Moth Awareness Month in an effort […]
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In a story titled “Offshore Wind Takes Off at Last. States Have Been Counting on It,” Stateline, a daily news publication funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts organization, highlighted research on floating platform technology for offshore wind development from the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center. The story was also shared in the […]
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The Bangor Daily News published an op-ed from Erin Victor, a University of Maine doctoral student, titled “The case for a different kind of climate action.” Victor is a member of the Maine chapter of the national Scholars Strategy Network, which brings together scholars across the country to address public challenges and their policy implications.
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The Register-Herald noted that Andrei Kurbatov, an associate professor with the University of Maine School of Earth and Climate Sciences and Climate Change Institute, is helping plan a four-part volcano eruptions data workshop called Tephra Fusion 2022.
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University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center is recruiting student researchers to contribute to a variety of marine and environmental research projects this summer. DMC hosts 25–30 undergraduate researchers on the Walpole campus each summer to collaborate with UMaine faculty and other DMC-based researchers on projects ranging from the fundamental biology of microorganisms active in the […]
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The University of Maine’s Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR) has named the 2022–2024 Research Faculty Fellows. CUGR Research Faculty Fellows are a cohort of faculty members who were nominated by their respective deans and selected by the center. The program is designed to support faculty efforts toward improving undergraduate research mentoring skills, expanding curricula to […]
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National Geographic, CBS News, BBC News, CNN, The Independent, The Hill, The Weather Channel, the Daily Mail, the Bangor Daily News, Spectrum News, Live Science, the Agence France-Presse, Sky News, CNET, Pardafas, ScienceAlert, The Kathmandu Post, The Malaysian Insight, WION and Down To Earth reported on a new study from a University of Maine-led international […]
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The Conversation published an article about what scientists and historians consider to be “worst year to be alive” — 536 — that featured a 2018 study co-authored by several scientists from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, including director Paul Mayewski. They collaborated with other researchers to investigate an ice core in the Swiss-Italian […]
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Maine’s research and innovation reputation takes a monumental step forward as the state’s public research university earns an R1 Carnegie Classification, UMaine joins the ranks of the nation’s top 146 doctoral research universities engaged in “very high research activity.” Orono, Maine — The University of Maine has been designated an R1 university by the prestigious […]
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Orono, Maine — Melting and sublimation on Mount Everest’s highest glacier due to human-induced climate change have reached the point that several decades of accumulation are being lost annually now that ice has been exposed, according to a University of Maine-led international research team that analyzed data from the world’s highest ice core and highest […]
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