New research, reported on the National Science Foundation Web site investigates a phenomenon that saw Europe experience a period of unusually cold weather at the end of the last Ice Age, at the same time the Southern Hemisphere was experiencing warming. The new study, published in Nature and including UMaine Climate Change Institute scientists George […]
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Contact: Catherine Schmitt, Maine Sea Grant, 581-1434, catherine.schmitt@umit.maine.edu PORTLAND, ME – Active waterfronts fuel coastal economies from Maine to Alaska, but demographic and financial changes threaten to transform America’s working shorelines. On Thursday, September 30, US Representative Chellie Pingree will charge working waterfront advocates with creating a national strategy for protecting and enhancing access for […]
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Brian Landry, a junior on the UMaine swim team, will appear tonight at 10 p.m. on the Discovery Channel’s “Surviving the Cut.” Landry took part in the elite Special Forces Underwater Combat Divers Course over the summer after being chosen as one of 24 to try out to become one of the best divers on […]
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Working Waterfront features a story about tracking methods employed by scientists use to track the migration of sea-run fish species. The story is based, in part, on research by UMaine professors Michael Kinnison and Gayle Zydlewski, and it includes comments from Zydlewski. Catherine Schmitt of the Maine Sea Grant program at UMaine co-authored the story.
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Contact: Paul Mayewski, (207) 581-3019 or paul.mayewski@maine.edu University of Maine volcanologist Andrei Kurbatov and glaciologist Paul Mayewski, along with 21 other scientists, coauthored a scientific paper released late last month that details the discovery of a layer of nanodiamonds in the Greenland ice sheet, which has added to a controversy in the scientific community about […]
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UMaine’s Lobster Institute Executive Director Robert Bayer tells WABI the blue lobster recently hauled in by a Belfast lobsterman could be one in up to five million.
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Newsday talks to UMaine marine archaeologist Warren Riess about some of the items found in an old ship he excavated earlier this summer from the World Trade Center site in New York City.
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UMaine research scientist Andrew Pershing’s research on carbon sequestering in whales was posted on the science website Physorg.com. Pershing says whaling and fishing has altered the ability of oceans to store and sequester carbon.
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Contact: Charlie Slavin, Dean of the Honors College, 207.581.3262, slavin@honors.umaine.edu Keith Hutchison, Professor of Biochemistry/Molecular Biology, 207.581.2827, keithh@maine.edu ORONO — The University of Maine Honors College and the Maine IDeA Network for Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) have announced five recipients of Honors Thesis Fellowships of $2,575, and one Junior Year Research Award of $1,030. The […]
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Contact: Ed Grew, (207) 581-2169 ORONO — Charles V. Guidotti, professor in the UMaine Department of Earth Sciences from 1981 to his death in 2005, has been honored by having a new mineral, guidottiite, named after him. The name was approved by the Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names of the International Mineralogical Association, […]
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