College of Earth, Life, and Health Sciences

Six researchers, including University of Maine economist Jonathan Rubin, released Thursday a series of studies that found the fuels of the future will be cleaner, cheaper and more “made in America” if the United States adopts a national Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS). The National LCFS Project released the reports during a bipartisan briefing on […]

Andrew Pershing, a biological oceanographer with the University of Maine and Gulf of Maine Research Institute, testified in a July 19 Congressional hearing about the need to consider the role of climate change in marine fisheries management. The hearing of the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans and Insular Affairs considered three bills, including HR 6096 […]

Adrienne Leppold, a University of Maine Ph.D. candidate in the School of Biology and Ecology, has been awarded a Robert & Patricia Switzer Foundation fellowship for her work studying songbird migration in the Gulf of Maine. Leppold works with UMaine bird biologist Rebecca Holberton, who leads the Northeast Regional Migration Monitoring Network. More information about […]

UMaine Gets $3 Million NSF IGERT Award For An Adaptation To Abrupt Climate Change Program The need to adapt environmental policies and management strategies to meet the social and ecological challenges caused by abrupt climate change events around the world is the focus of a new graduate program at the University of Maine beginning this […]

Scientists Discover Eddies Trigger Phytoplankton Blooms in the North Atlantic The spring phytoplankton bloom in the subpolar North Atlantic can begin up to 30 days earlier than previously thought as the result of eddies stratifying the near-surface waters, according to the results of a study reported today in the journal Science and announced by the […]

Erin Victoria Carter, a University of Maine biochemistry and molecular/cellular biology major, has won a prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. Carter’s academic goal is to attain a Ph.D. in immunology or molecular biology and her career goal is to conduct AIDS or autoimmune disease research for a university or other research facility. She will be […]

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. Ralph Waldo Emerson A garden grows on the edge of the sea in Maine, in that rocky zone where the tides wash in and out. Winged kelp, nori, dulse and other succulent sea vegetables thrive in dense, undulating beds — an underwater […]

University of Maine women’s track and field standout Corey Conner has been named a United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches’ Association second team All-American. Conner, a senior nursing major from Townsend, Mass., placed 16th in the 5,000 meters at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships last weekend to earn the distinction. […]

Two University of Maine faculty members and a UMaine graduate student recently won awards for wood-related research at the 66th International Convention of the Forest Products Society. William Davids, the John C. Bridge Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Stephen Shaler, a professor of wood science, were named winners of the L.J. Markwardt Wood […]

A recently updated 2011 study by the University of Maine School of Economics that sorted and assessed the contents of trash in a representative sample of 17 Maine communities concludes that as much as 60 percent of what’s thrown away could be diverted from the waste stream through composting and recycling. Since municipalities pay for […]