News Center Maine, WABI (Channel 5), WFVX (Channel 7) and the Bangor Daily News reported on U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack’s visit to the University of Maine and the “Investing in America Town Hall” he hosted here, during which he announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service is making $190 million available […]
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Darren Ranco, anthropology professor and chair of Native American Programs at the University of Maine, was featured in a USA Today article about the Sacred Defense National Parks and Monuments Initiative, an new effort from the Lakota People’s Law Project to compensate tribes connected to the various national parks and monuments. Ranco said Native Americans […]
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National Parks Traveler and Spectrum News reported on a University of Maine-led study which found that there are an estimated 400 billion microplastic fibers on the surface of Frenchman Bay and several connected rivers and estuaries where freshwater from rivers meet salty seawater. The watershed contains an average of 1.8 fibers per liter of water.
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Nikita Saini, a Ph.D. student with the University of Maine Department of Physics and Astronomy, spoke with WFVX (Channel 7) about the upcoming Capricornid and Aquariid meteor showers, which will peak around July 30th and in mid-August, respectively. “You’ll have to be out on a very clear night sky, and just kind of lay down, […]
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The Bangor Daily News interviewed Jim Dill, a University of Maine Cooperative Extension associate program administrator in pest management, for a story titled “Why deer flies are plentiful in parts of Maine.” Dill said short intense rain events, which appeal to deer flies, are becoming more common in Maine.
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From the piers in Casco Bay to the marinas of the midcoast and wharves along Downeast shorelines, working waterfronts are crucial to Maine’s economy and communities. Faced with the threat of rising sea levels, stronger and more frequent storms, aging infrastructure and development pressures, Gov. Janet Mills and her administration have developed strategies and nature-based […]
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Along the shores of Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor and the Schoodic Peninsula are the vast, briny waters of Frenchman Bay. With 98 square miles of water and 39 islands, the bay is vital to shorebirds, fish, lobstermen and outdoor recreationists. University of Maine researchers, however, have discovered that Frenchman Bay and its tributaries are […]
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Ian Bricknell, professor of aquaculture biology at the University of Maine, spoke with The Economist for a story about an effort by researchers in Norway to develop vaccines that could protect salmon from sea lice.
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Dianne Kopec, a research associate with the University of Maine Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions, spoke with the Bangor Daily News about upcoming efforts to extract, bury and dredge mercury in the Penobscot River. “You don’t let it sit there,” said Kopec, who previously conducted a study on mercury pollution in the […]
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WFVX (Channel 7 in Bangor) interviewed University Ph.D. Student Maraina Miles about her research voyage in Chile and her documentation of it through photography. Her photos are on display at the UMaine Hudson Museum.
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