The Penobscot Bay Pilot reported that a 2019 National Geographic and Rolex Perpetual Planet Everest Expedition, which included six University of Maine researchers, set three Guinness World Records. The team from UMaine included expedition leader Paul Mayewski, the director of UMaine’s Climate Change Institute; Geology team co-leader Aaron Putnam, an assistant professor; member of the […]
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The Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine will host a talk about the need to work across technology, policy and finance to fight climate change from 3–4 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 18. A rapid shift to low-carbon energy in the power, transportation, industry and building sectors is needed […]
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Three University of Maine civil and environmental engineering researchers will collaborate with Vermont engineers to create the next generation of sensor networks for infrastructure monitoring. Researchers from the University of Vermont, UMaine and Vermont Technical College were awarded a $4 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop and test new technologies that could […]
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Habib Dagher spoke with Newsy about the potential for offshore wind development in the U.S. “You know, in many ways, the development of offshore wind, if we could offshore in the U.S., has been driven mostly by the states,” says Dagher, director of the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center. “We have lacked […]
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The Bangor Daily News and Centralmaine.com advanced an upcoming talk hosted by the University of Maine Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions featuring Dan Reicher, senior research scholar at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. Reicher, a former U.S. assistant secretary of energy, will discuss the importance of using what he calls the “clean energy […]
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Lindsey Rustad, a University of Maine alumna and associate faculty member of its School of Forest Resources, will be featured on CBS “Mission Unstoppable” on Saturday, Oct. 9. Show host Miranda Cosgrove will speak with Rustad about her work to protect forestland from climate change and other threats as a research ecologist and team leader […]
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The Bangor Daily News and Spectrum News reported on a new testing lab at the University of Maine that will help state landowners monitor their trees for the presence of the destructive eastern spruce budworm. Angela Mech, UMaine assistant professor of forest entomology who heads the lab, told Spectrum News “now that the outbreak is […]
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Mainebiz highlighted a new initiative from the University of Maine called the Forest Economy, Sustainability and Technology (FOREST). The multidisciplinary effort to bring together university, industry, government, and community collaborators for the advancement of forest-based economy in Maine.
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Vermont Business Magazine and WCAX (Channel 3 in Burlington, Vermont) shared a news release about the National Science Foundation awarding a $4 million grant for researchers at the University of Vermont, University of Maine and Vermont Technical College to develop and test new sensor technology that could make monitoring the safety and performance of infrastructure […]
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The 2019 National Geographic and Rolex Perpetual Planet Everest Expedition that six Climate Change Institute explorers participated in has set three Guinness World Records. The three records, featured in the latest edition of the Guinness World Records book, are: Highest altitude ice core taken: 8,020 meters (26,312 feet), extracted from the South Col glacier. The […]
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