Bluefin tuna are going hungry in a sea full of fish because their foraging habits are most efficient with larger — not necessarily more abundant — prey, according to a study led by a University of Maine marine scientist.Walter Golet, assistant research professor in the School of Marine Sciences and the Gulf of Maine Research […]
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A group of University of Maine researchers is working to enhance native and honey bee populations by increasing beneficial pollinator flowers across Maine’s landscape. This is not a new idea — what is new is their choice of research location. Some might describe one of their sites as trashy, but the researchers think it’s just […]
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University of Maine marine scientist Bob Steneck encouraged Dominican Republic officials and stakeholders to preserve and improve coral reefs — what he calls the tropical rainforests of the sea — in a keynote address on World Oceans Day, in Santo Domingo. “They contain 25 percent of all species on Earth. However, they are also among […]
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When Cassie Gibbs came to the University of Maine in 1971, a photograph hanging in an office in Deering Hall captivated her. She was studying it one day when Geddes Simpson, head of the Entomology Department, informed her that the woman was Edith Marion Patch, UMaine’s first female entomologist. From that day forward, Gibbs — […]
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Aaron Putnam, a research associate with the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, is conducting glacial geology research in Mongolia with doctoral student Peter Strand. Fieldwork will include mapping and collecting samples of moraines and glacial geomorphologic features around Khoton Nuur. Khoton Lake is at the foot of the Altai Mountains near the border of […]
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A University of Maine researcher, a doctoral student and an undergraduate are at Wind Cave National Park in Hot Springs, South Dakota excavating cave fossils that date back 11,000 years to the end of the most recent ice age. Scientists say preliminary samples from the material — which includes at least 22 species — will […]
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The University of Maine is working with four other research institutions in the region on a $1.1 million study to better understand the physical and biological processes that control the abundance of a plankton species that’s essential to the food web of the Northeast coastal ocean. The researchers will study the marine copepod Calanus finmarchicus. […]
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University of Maine researchers are one step closer to controlling the ever-growing invasive fire ant populations, Myrmica rubra, that have been spreading throughout Maine for the last 15 years. Due to the highly competitive and aggressive behavior of these fire ants, eradication has proven to be almost impossible. UMaine researchers are turning their attention to […]
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Conserving nature’s stage — the physical features such as landform, soil and bedrock that contribute to species biodiversity — is the focus of a special section of the June issue of the international journal Conservation Biology that includes research by two internationally recognized scientists at the University of Maine. The special section emphasizes the value […]
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To mark the retirement of Associate Dean Alan Kezis, the college is pleased to announce the Alan Kezis College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture Student Emergency Fund. The fund was established at the University of Maine Foundation with gifts from family, colleagues, and friends of Associate Dean Kezis. A full fund description is available […]
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