The Bangor Daily News, Penobscot Bay Pilot and VillageSoup shared a news release about new research funding from the NOAA Sea Grant American Lobster Initiative coordinated regionally by Maine Sea Grant. The funding will support new studies, including a few from Maine-based researchers, to “address critical gaps in knowledge about how the American lobster (Homarus […]
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The Sun Journal, Centralmaine.com and The Irregular advanced an upcoming roundtable discussion about rematriation and Indigenous land concepts in the Land Back movement hosted by the University of Maine Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions. Learn more about the talk, which will be held from 3–4 p.m. Monday, Nov. 8 over Zoom and […]
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The Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine will host a roundtable discussion on rematriation and Indigenous land concepts in the Land Back movement from 3–4 p.m. Monday, Nov. 8. Panelists, which will include Darren Ranco, Mali Obomsawin and Sherri Mitchell, will discuss the roles that rematriation, Indigenous women […]
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National Geographic, Science News and Inside Science reported on a new study lead by Kit Hamley, a National Science Foundation graduate research fellow with the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, that identifies evidence of pre-European human activity on the Falkland Islands. The reports particularly focused on the indications these findings present about the possible […]
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News Center Maine highlighted a University of Maine Lobster Institute, Saint Joseph’s College and Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve initiative to improve lobster survival in the supply chain by monitoring the quality of their shipping conditions using proptype minatiture fitness trackers.
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Since its first recorded sighting by European explorers in the 1600s, scientists and historians have believed that Europeans were the first people to ever set foot on the Falkland Islands. Findings from a new University of Maine-led study, however, suggests otherwise; that human activity on the islands predates European arrival by centuries. Kit Hamley, National […]
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Mainebiz and the Mount Desert Islander reported on an effort by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, NOAA Fisheries and the University of Maine to devise the first national benchmark survey of direct seafood marketing practices in domestic wild-caught fisheries. “Currently, there is a gap in national-level data on the domestic seafood system,” says Joshua Stoll, […]
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Alessandro Mereghetti has 59 time capsules from Siberia that will give insights into which animals lived there more than 20,000 years ago, as well as what plants they ate and how they interacted with the landscape over millennia. These time capsules from the Siberian permafrost are coprolites. Also called fossilized feces. “Poop is a time […]
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Habib Dagher, executive director for the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center, spoke with News Center Maine about the floating offshore wind technology demonstration project his center is developing with New England Aqua Ventus LLC. “If we harness just 3% of the offshore wind resource in the Gulf of Maine, we can heat […]
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The Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine will host a talk about water insecurity and health in the U.S. and Canada, including the effects in rural and Indigenous communities, from 3–4 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 1. Water insecurity is broadly defined as the lack of adequate and safe […]
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