An AccuWeather.com website article about the early onset and glut of soft-shell lobsters in Maine waters included comments from Robert Bayer, director of the UMaine Lobster Institute. Bayer said unseasonably warm ocean temperatures in May probably accelerated the lobster shell-shedding schedule, which has increased the supply of lobsters, but not the demand. As a result, […]
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Booth and exhibitor spaces for the first Hancock County Business Conference and Trade Show coordinated by the University of Maine Cooperative Extension has sold out, according to an article in the Ellsworth American. The Governor’s Regional Conference on Small Business and Entrepreneurship on Nov. 1-2 is being organized by a coalition of public and private […]
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University of Maine professor of sociology Sandra Butler, who also works with the UMaine Center on Aging, was interviewed by the Maine Public Broadcasting Network for a report on efforts by the Secretary of State’s Office to keep Maine highways safe as some drivers’ skills diminish with age. Butler said facing the loss of a […]
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Col. James Campbell, a Maine Army National Guard member who received a master’s and a Ph.D. in history at UMaine has been nominated by Gov. Paul LePage to become Maine’s new adjutant general, according to a report in the Portland Press Herald. The governor said in a statement that Campbell, who also served as executive […]
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A Bangor Daily News article about Bangor High School student Will Benoit, who has received a prestigious Stockholm Junior Water Prize award, noted that Benoit has been working with professor of chemical engineering and director of UMaine’s paper surface science program Doug Bousfield and UMaine graduate student Finley Richmond on research to create cheaper water […]
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Channel 5 (WABI) and Channel 2 (WLBZ) interviewed University of Maine Cooperative Extension professor of sustainable dairy and forage systems Richard Kersbergen for a report on a UMaine Extension research collaboration funded by a $2.9 million grant through the U.S. Department of Agriculture to further improve the quality, quantity and marketability of organic milk in […]
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The New York Times Green blog interviewed UMaine oceanographer Mary Jane Perry about a study published last week in the magazine Science. Perry and colleagues found the spring phytoplankton bloom in the North Atlantic may be caused not by sunlight, but by shallow ocean currents known as eddies. The importance of the finding, Perry told […]
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The University of Maine is hosting its annual Maine Summer Transportation Institute, a hands-on, interactive program to teach youngsters about some of the exciting careers in engineering and transportation. About 20 area middle-school students are participating in the institute, which runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday until July 20. Students are […]
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The R&D Magazine website posted a story about research to which UMaine scientist Mary Jane Perry contributed, into the trigger for the spring phytoplankton bloom in the Atlantic Ocean. Perry and colleagues from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and University of Washington published their findings in Science magazine. Contact: Jessica Bloch, (207) 581-3777
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The Bangor Daily News was among the news organizations reporting that University of Maine System Trustees endorsed Monday UMaine President Paul Ferguson’s Blue Sky Project, a five-year strategic road map to a series of university goals to strengthen both UMaine and the state as a whole. Others included Mainebiz, the Portland Press Herald, which carried […]
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