The Penobscot Bay Pilot shared a news release announcing that the University of Maine and its Portland Gateway, and Northeastern University and its Roux Institute, have awarded a new round of seed funding to four collaborative research teams to address topics important to people in Maine and beyond.
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Maine Public, Mainebiz, News Center Maine, the Bangor Daily News, the Portland Press Herald and WABI (Channel 5) reported on Gov. Janet Mills’s recent conference at the University of Maine, where she announced new climate change funding initiatives and celebrated the one-year anniversary of Maine’s four-year climate plan, Maine Won’t Wait. During the gathering, Mills […]
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Maine Public interviewed Ivan Fernandez, a University of Maine professor of soil science and forest resources, about the state’s climate action plan, Maine Won’t Wait, for a recent segment of “Maine Calling.” Fernandez, co-chair of the Maine Climate Council’s Scientific and Technical Subcommittee, joined Hannah Pingree, director of the Governor’s Office of Policy Innovation & […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported on a study which revealed that imaging spectroscopy can help predict water stress in wild blueberry barrens. “Warming and drought exacerbated by climate change have compounded their struggles in recent years, alongside freezing and pathogens,” said lead researcher Catherine Chan, a University of Maine graduate student. “There has been an […]
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Jocelyn Cooper of Boxford, Massachusetts, is a University of Maine senior majoring in marine sciences with a concentration in marine biology. She is a UMaine Center for Undergraduate Research-Maine Space Grant Consortium Fellow and Brooke Olson Award recipient, conducting research in the Waller Lab, led by associate professor Rhian Waller, at UMaine’s Darling Marine Center, […]
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Adam Daigneault spoke with the Bangor Daily News about how harvesting more biomass for wood pellet fuel for heating would affect forest health and management. “Basically, the state of Maine’s forests is that the forests are overstocked or overcrowded,” said Daigneault, University of Maine E.L. Giddings Associate Professor of Forest Policy and Economics. “That’s leaving […]
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A column published in the Forecaster highlighted tidal power impact research from the University of Maine Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions has been conducting. Gayle Zydlewski and Teresa Johnson, faculty from the UMaine School of Marine Sciences, have been working with local stakeholders in the Cobscook Bay area to ensure that tidal […]
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Robert Steneck, a professor of oceanography, marine biology and marine policy at the University of Maine, spoke to News Center Maine about new research conducted to help craft animal welfare legislation for the United Kingdom. The legislation, if adopted into law, would grant protections to sentient animals. An investigation led by the London School of […]
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Jacquelyn Gill spoke to the Bangor Daily News about the prospect of Maine switching from Eastern Standard Time to Atlantic Standard Time. “How far east we are in the time zone doesn’t affect how much sunlight we get; it affects when that daylight falls on the clock,” said Gill, an associate professor of paleoecology and […]
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Kimberly Miner, a research assistant professor with the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, will participate in the panel STEAM Superstars on Nov. 27 during San Diego Comic-Con Special Edition. Miner, a UMaine alumna who also is a scientist with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, will join other women scientists and engineers who incorporate art and […]
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