United Press International (UPI) interviewed Damian Brady, an associate professor of marine sciences at the University of Maine; Amalia Harrington, a Maine Sea Grant marine Extension associate; and Andrew Goode, a UMaine postdoctoral researcher, about how climate change threatens Maine’s lobster industry and efforts to better understand those possible ramifications. “We’re not too hot for […]
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The Bangor Daily News highlighted an event hosted by the University of Maine Society of Women Engineers on Dec. 11 to give eight Maine high school seniors its Certificate of Merit Award.
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The Bangor Daily News promoted the first annual Statewide Research Symposium on Biomedical Science and Engineering planned for Oct. 13–14. The event is sponsored by the University of Maine, University of New England, Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, Jackson Laboratory, Roux Institute, Northern Light Health and MaineHealth. Registration materials, abstract deadlines and other details will […]
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WBZN (Z107.3 FM) noted that its story titled “UMaine’s pilot study on the browntail moth could be a game changer” was one of its most popular in 2021.
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The Maine Science Podcast featured Sean Birkel, Maine state climatologist and research assistant professor at the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, on its latest episode. In the episode, Birkel discusses his work, which includes creating and managing the Climate Reanalyzer and supporting The Warming Sea project, and his passion for science. The podcast, a […]
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Ivan Fernandez and William Livingston, two faculty researchers with the University of Maine School of Forest Resources, spoke with Maine Public about the threats climate change poses to evergreens in the state. Fernandez, a University of Maine professor of soil science and forest resources and co-chair of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of the Maine […]
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The Bangor Daily News and Machias Valley News Observer highlighted Lee Karp-Boss and Emmanuel Boss, professors in the University of Maine School of Marine Sciences, participating in a marine microbiome research expedition in the Atlantic Ocean overseen by the Tara Ocean Foundation.
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ScienceDaily and Phys.org advanced a Rice University-led study of air bubbles in Antarctic ice co-authored by Andrei Kurbatov, an associate professor with the University of Maine School of Earth and Climate Sciences and Climate Change Institute. The study, published in Science Advances, revealed a possible cause for the decline in atmospheric oxygen for at least […]
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Lee Karp-Boss and Emmanuel Boss, professors at the University of Maine School of Marine Sciences, completed a month-long research cruise in the western South Atlantic Ocean as part of Tara Ocean Foundation’s Mission Microbiomes project. Tara, a French nonprofit that conducts ocean expeditions using its titular research schooner, launched the project in December 2020 to […]
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Isthmus advanced a webinar featuring Amber Roth, an assistant professor of Forest Wildlife Management at the University of Maine, titled “Understanding Movement and Population Dynamics of Migratory Birds.” The University of Wisconsin-Madison will host the virtual lecture at 10 a.m. March 3. Learn more online.
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