ESPN interviewed Paul Mayewski for an article about what people learned about Mount Everest in the past 100 years. Mayewski, director of the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, discussed findings from the National Geographic and Rolex Perpetual Planet Everest Expedition, particularly the pollutants found trapped in glaciers. “As they melt, they release those toxic […]
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Maine Public interviewed University of Maine faculty Darren Ranco, director of Native American Programs, and Jacquelyn Gill, an associate professor of paleoecology, about a new study that reveals the historical role of Indigenous peoples in natural resource management and environmental stewardship. Findings suggest that Indigenous people should be centered in resource management and conservation to […]
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Sea ice cover in the Southern Hemisphere is extremely variable, from summer to winter and from millennium to millennium, according to a University of Maine-led study. Overall, sea ice has been on the rise for about 10,000 years, but with some exceptions to this trend. Dominic Winski, a research assistant professor at the UMaine Climate […]
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WABI (Channel 5) interviewed University of Maine mechanical engineering technology student Peter Berube in reporting on the donation of a 3D-printed scale model of the Mars rover to the Challenger Learning Center in Bangor. UMaine students developed and assembled the model as part of their capstone project. Berube noted that this is one of the […]
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VillageSoup cited Esperanza Stancioff, a University of Maine Cooperative Extension professor, in reporting on efforts to help coastal communities address climate change and rising sea levels in Waldo County. Stancioff is a member of the group Collaborating Toward Climate Solutions (CTCS), which includes researchers from Bowdoin College, the University of Maine at Machias, the Maine […]
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The Associated Press reported on a statewide campaign to keep food out of landfills led by the Senator George J. Mitchell Center at the University of Maine. The Bangor Daily News, The Portland Press Herald, Centralmaine.com, WGME (Channel 13 in Portland), The Edwardsville Intelligencer, the Caledonian Record, U.S. News and World Report and The Washington […]
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Walt Golet, a research assistant professor in the University of Maine’s School of Marine Sciences, was quoted in a Down East magazine story about the presence of great white sharks off the coast of Maine.
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A Centralmaine.com column by Louise Rosen cited a 2019 University of Maine study of farmed oyster revenue in calling for increased attention and support for the film-making industry in Maine.
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Four University of Maine seniors created a 3D-printed bicycle frame to give to Orono High School for their Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET) capstone project. Orono Middle School and High School Librarian Emily Jackson Sanborn will accept the frame from the UMaine seniors and faculty at 1 p.m. on Monday, May 3 outside of the school […]
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Habib Dagher, director of the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center, discussed the research and economic prospects of floating offshore wind power development with Maine Public. “The engineering challenges we’ve solved relatively quickly,” Dagher said. “But it’s really the business end of it, how do we make it in Maine, how do we […]
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