Machias News

UMM a partner in flood protection project, Machias Valley News Observer reports

The Machias Valley News Observer reported the University of Maine at Machias is a partner in a project to protect downtown Machias from increasing flooding events. The other partners are the Town of Machias and the Washington County Council of Governments. Members of the public learned about the Machias Waterfront Resilience & Renewal Study at […]

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Maine Public rebroadcasting UMM documentary July 26, 28

Maine Public Television is rebroadcasting the University of Maine at Machias documentary “Whatever Works: Exploring Opiate Addiction” at 10 p.m. July 26 and 11 a.m. July 28. The film is a production of the UMM Down East documentary class, led by fine arts faculty member Alan Kryszak. It premiered at UMM Feb. 9, 2017. The […]

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Beal quoted in Press Herald article on new, aggressive green crab variant

The Portland Press Herald quoted Brian Beal, a professor of marine ecology at the University of Maine at Machias, for an article on a new, more aggressive variant of invasive green crabs. As coastal currents carry these new crabs down into Maine waters from Nova Scotia, they pose an additional threat to soft-shell clams and […]

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Media interview Beal for reports on Downeast Institute expansion

WABI (Channel 5), News Center Maine and The Ellsworth American interviewed Brian Beal, a professor of marine ecology at the University of Maine at Machias and the director of research at the Downeast Institute, for reports on the construction for a $6.6 million expansion to the institute. “What we do here at DEI is to try to […]

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Fifty-five college students interning with state, municipal governments

The Maine Government Summer Internship Program opened its 2018 session May 29 with 55 students interning with the state and with municipal governments. The Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center at the University of Maine administers the program, which offers a full-time, 12-week, paid work experience to undergraduate and graduate students in all fields of study […]

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Ferrini-Mundy UMaine’s new president, Inside Higher Ed reports

Inside Higher Ed published a list of new presidents and provosts at colleges and universities in the United States, including the University of Maine. Joan Ferrini-Mundy, the chief operating officer of the National Science Foundation, was chosen to be the president of UMaine and UMaine at Machias, the report states.

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Myracle, Beal quoted in SeafoodSource article on invasive green crabs

An article in SeafoodSource on the Green Crab Working Summit in Portland, Maine June 6 and 7 quoted Angela Myracle, an assistant professor of human nutrition at the University of Maine, and Brian Beal, a professor of marine ecology at the University of Maine at Machias. As the Gulf of Maine warms, the European green […]

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Mount Desert Islander advances Johnson’s climate change talk

Mount Desert Islander reported Tora Johnson, an associate professor of geographic information systems (GIS) and environmental studies at the University of Maine at Machias, will discuss the current and future impacts of climate change at the Southwest Harbor Public Library from 5:30–7 p.m. June 12. Johnson will speak about climate change effects in the area […]

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AP quotes Beal in article on Green Crab Working Summit

Brian Beal, a professor of marine ecology at the University of Maine at Machias, was quoted in an Associated Press article on the Green Crab Working Summit being held in Portland. Scientists, fishermen, chefs and others gathered at the event to brainstorm uses for the invasive crabs that are threatening New England’s shellfish industry, according […]

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