The Working Waterfront newspaper has a profile of the Maine company Sea & Reef Aquaculture, a tropical fish-breeding business which was founded by Soren Hansen and Chad Callan when they were were UMaine graduate students.The article recounts how Hansen started a project to raise clownfish while he was working on a master’s degree and had […]
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Comments from UMaine political scientist Mark Brewer were included in a Bangor Daily News report on Gov. Paul LePage’s State of the State address Tuesday night. Brewer said he thought the speech was effective and struck the right tone. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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Auburn, Maine native Pamela Ann White, U.S. ambassador to Gambia and a 1971 University of Maine graduate, has been nominated by President Obama as the new U.S. ambassador to Haiti, according to an article in the Portland Press Herald. White earned an undergraduate degree in journalism at UMaine and a master’s degree in international development […]
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Signs of the Seasons, a UMaine program coordinated by University of Maine Cooperative Extension and Maine Sea Grant climate change educator Esperanza Stancioff, was profiled in the Lewiston Sun Journal. Signs of the Season utilizes citizen volunteers to diligently watch selected species on predesignated sites and record their observations about the life cycles of the […]
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The Lewiston Sun Journal included comments from Jim Dill, a UMaine Cooperative Extension educator and pest management specialist, in an article on an Asian fruit fly that threatens Maine’s berry crops. Dill said the potential damage to Maine’s low bush blueberry crop is the biggest concern. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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Comments from UMaine education professor Elizabeth Allan, who co-authored in 2008 with fellow UMaine faculty member Mary Madden a national study on hazing, were included in an Orlando Sentinel story about hazing on college campuses. Allan said campus culture must be examined. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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UMaine Cooperative Extension Specialist David Handley and Educator Tori Jackson were interviewed for a Lewiston Sun Journal report on the struggles of Maine’s small farmers to gain disaster relief funds. Handley and Jackson are co-administrators of Crop Insurance Risk Management Education for Maine, an Extension program in its 13th year. Jackson said Maine was seen […]
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In a story on the Portland Press Herald website, Habib Dagher, the director of UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center, told an audience in Augusta that the state’s economy could grow by 15,000 jobs in the next 20 years if Mainers embrace offshore wind projects. The Boston Globe website also ran a version of the […]
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A Portland Press Herald article that recently discussed several new invasive insect species that threaten the state included comments from University of Maine insect ecologist and Cooperative Extension entomology specialist Frank Drummond. Drummond described characteristics of a new-to-Maine spotted-wing drosophila, an Asian fruit fly that damages unripe and ripening fruit, including blueberries, strawberries, raspberries and […]
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Click here to see all Climate Change blog entries. Yesterday we reached the camp at 13,780 feet. It´s a small, flat, sandy area perched on a cliff within the Tupungatito lava flows. The view is spectacular, encompassing the Colorado Valley and many snow-capped mountain peaks. The two peaks that dominate the landscape are Tupungato (about […]
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