In an article highlighting the impact in Maine of policy differences between the Trump and Biden administrations, the Portland Press Herald noted that the Department of Energy will likely support the University of Maine’s Aqua Ventus project with federal investment in clean, renewable energy research and innovation.
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The Bangor Daily News published a guest column by Lenard Kaye, University of Maine professor of social work and director of the Center on Aging, highlighting a lack of knowledge about hospice and end of life care services among the public and medical providers in the Bangor area. Kaye is a founding member of the […]
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Paul Mayewski, director of the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, spoke with Popular Science about research from the most comprehensive scientific expedition to Mount Everest. CCI scientists joined others in the 2019 National Geographic and Rolex Perpetual Planet Everest Expedition, which resulted in several papers published in the interdisciplinary scientific journal One Earth. “This […]
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CBS News cited the Climate Change Institute Climate Reanalyzer in a story about “astonishingly warmer” temperatures in the Arctic. The average temperature for the Arctic Circle, which spans 7.7 million square miles, reached 12 degrees Fahrenheit above normal Nov. 21–22, according to the reanalyzer. Since 2012, University of Maine CCI research assistant professor Sean Birkel […]
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Kimberley Miner spoke to Smithsonian Magazine about a study exploring how climate change has altered oxygen levels at Mount Everest. The study, which the assistant professor at the Climate Change Institute was not involved in, revealed that the rise in air pressure resulting from climate change near the summit has made oxygen more available. It […]
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KSAT in San Antonio reported on research from the most comprehensive scientific expedition to Mount Everest. Several researchers, including scientists from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, participated in the 2019 National Geographic and Rolex Perpetual Planet Everest Expedition, and shared their findings in papers published in the interdisciplinary scientific journal One Earth. Paul […]
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Maine Public, the Portland Press Herald, Riviera, Renewable Energy Magazine and OffshoreWIND.biz reported that Gov. Janet Mills, in partnership with the University of Maine and New England Aqua Ventus, seeks to build the first floating offshore wind research array in the U.S. Mills is searching for 16 square miles of ocean that can be leased […]
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Reuters spoke with Aaron Putnam, a University of Maine assistant professor in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences and the Climate Change Institute, about the causes and implications of China’s retreating glaciers. According to the story, rapid melting has caused devastating flooding and unreliable water availability for downstream farmers — a preview of the […]
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Kimberley Miner co-wrote the opinion piece “Deep Frozen Arctic Microbes Are Waking Up” in Scientific American. The assistant professor at the Climate Change Institute writes that in Siberia and northern Canada, the abrupt thaw has created sunken landforms, or thermokarst — where the oldest and deepest permafrost is exposed to the warm air for the […]
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The Maine Science Podcast features Heather Hamlin, an associate professor of aquaculture at the University of Maine, in its latest episode. Hamlin discussed her research seeking to understand how human-induced changes in the environment, whether it be climate change, ocean acidification or pollutants, can affect the reproduction and development of aquatic animals that are important […]
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