Sustainability Solutions and Technologies

Media promote Spire solicitation

The Bangor Daily News, the Associated Press and Centralmaine.com promoted the solicitation of photos, artwork, essays and analysis for the next issue of “Spire: the Maine Journal of Conservation and Sustainability.” Submissions should be related to the environment, conservation or sustainability; work broadly connected to Maine is encouraged. More information about the journal, including submission guidelines, is online. WGAN News Radio […]

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Public advances festival presentations by Dagher, Maginnis

Public previewed the online 2021 Maine Science Festival, noting presentations by University of Maine faculty Habib Dagher and Melissa Maginnis. Dagher, who is the director of the Advanced Structures and Composites Center, will speak at 1 p.m. on Feb. 16 in a session titled “Offshore Wind: From the UK to Maine.” Maginnis, an associate professor […]

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Spire invites submissions for online conservation journal

Spire: the Maine Journal of Conservation and Sustainability invites submissions for the fifth issue of the online journal planned for spring 2021. Issue 4, released in April 2020, is online. Editor Clinton Spaulding, a University of Maine communication and media ecology doctoral student, says the editorial staff seeks to include voices from a diverse range […]

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Press Herald mentions UMaine in coverage of solar power expansion

The Portland Press Herald mentioned a partnership between the University of Maine and BlueWave Solar in reporting about increasing demand for land to support solar energy infrastructure. UMaine will collaborate with BlueWave to evaluate the impact of installing solar panels on a 10-acre blueberry farm in Rockport. 

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Stoll receives fellowship to support Maine’s lobster industry

The Cooperative Institute for the North Atlantic Region (CINAR) has awarded Joshua Stoll, assistant professor of marine policy in the School of Marine Sciences at the University of Maine, a two-year fellowship in quantitative fisheries and ecosystem science.  Funding from the fellowship will be used to support a post-doctoral researcher who will work with Stoll […]

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UMaine graduate students help tourism-dependent communities prepare for climate change

Four University of Maine graduate students will help communities that rely on natural resources for recreation and tourism prepare for the ramifications of climate change.  The team will provide stakeholder municipalities data to help them adapt to the changing climate and assist them with developing climate adaptation frameworks using ‘scenario planning’— a method of forecasting […]

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Image of lobster boats at a working waterfront in Maine

Experts contribute to Maine’s plan for climate action

The Maine Climate Council released its four-year plan for climate action Tuesday, the same day 60-mph wind gusts were battering the state. As Council member Ivan Fernandez remarked during the public release of the report that the five hottest years in Earth’s recorded history were the last five, the temperature in a number of communities […]

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