Nils Haëntjens, research assistant professor in the University of Maine’s School of Marine Sciences, has just returned from a two-week trip to the North Pole to study phytoplankton distributions in relation to sea ice properties on-board the cruise vessel Le Commandant Charcot. The vessel, which is also an ice breaker, was on its first voyage with passengers […]
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $1.65 million across a team of researchers at five institutions that includes Shawn Fraver, associate professor of forest ecology at the University of Maine School of Forest Resources, to study methane sinks in Northern Forests. The total award to UMaine is $239,679. Methane is second only to carbon dioxide […]
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Anne Knowles believes that places provide important information about historical events. The University of Maine professor and graduate coordinator in the History Department has made an academic career studying the relationship between geographical circumstances and major societal shifts, exploring topics from Welsh emigration to the United States to why American entrepreneurs struggled to match the […]
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Beals, Maine — Twenty-five students from 15 universities nationwide presented their summer marine research at the sixth annual Science for Economic Impact and Application (SEA) Fellows Symposium, held this year at the Downeast Institute (DEI) in Beals, Maine. More than 50 people, including students and their family members; researchers; local municipal leaders and other community […]
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El Nino has been a major driver of societal collapse, various catastrophes and cultural change in coastal Peru for millenia, but it isn’t the only culprit. In a new study, University of Maine researchers warn against over-interpreting the role climatic change, like an El Nino event, plays in societal and cultural transition. Dan Sandweiss, a […]
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Samantha Hegmann-Wary, associate athletic director for compliance and senior woman administrator at the University of Maine, has been named UMaine interim athletic director, effective Sept. 1. She will serve through the national search to fill the permanent position held by Ken Ralph, who has been named athletic director at Southwestern University. “I look forward to […]
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The rapid warming of the 20th century has reversed 900 years of cooling in the Gulf of Maine, according to a new study led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, co-authored by the University of Maine and funded by the National Science Foundation. The Gulf of Maine has undergone recent, rapid ocean warming, but the […]
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Onur Apul, an assistant professor of environmental engineering at University of Maine, will lead a $1.1 million multi-institutional investigation backed by NASA to explore whether nanobubbles can support space exploration, including water treatment on spaceships. Through the Maine Space Grant Consortium, NASA Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) awarded the project $753,750 grant. It […]
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The scientific community now has a standard set of protocols for collecting data about volcanic ash known as tephra, thanks to an international team of researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey, the University of Maine and various institutions across the country. Tephra is any airborne material produced by an explosive volcanic eruption that plays an […]
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A study from the University of Maine shows that bringing together academics and tourism developers on Mount Desert Island (MDI) is an effective way to identify climate change impacts and determine what can be done to address them given a community’s strengths, limitations and resources. Now, thanks to the work of a transdisciplinary group of […]
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