A 2009 study led by the National Wildlife Federation in collaboration with University of Maine researchers was cited in a Maine Public report on the invasive emerald ash borer. The insect threatens to kill all of Maine’s ash trees and the roots of tribal culture, according to the article. For members of the region’s Wabanaki […]
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A recent University of Maine-led study on the changing composition of hardwood forests in the Northeastern United States was cited in the Bangor Daily News article, “How climate change is affecting the Maine maple syrup industry.” Andy Whitman, a forest scientist and the director of sustainable economies at Manomet, a Brunswick-based conservation nonprofit organization, said […]
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Mainebiz cited an economic impact study by Todd Gabe, a professor of resource economics and policy at the University of Maine, in an article about Waterfront Concerts seeking a long-term lease extension on city-owned land in order to build a permanent open-air venue in Bangor. Waterfront Concerts’ promoter signed a new 10-year contract with the […]
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Rick Wahle, a research professor at the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center, was quoted in the BloombergQuint article, “Maine’s booming lobster industry starts feeling some heat.” Lobster harvests already have collapsed in several states farther down the Atlantic coast, providing evidence for the warming-ocean-temperatures theory of the lobster boom, according to the article. The […]
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An article by Len Kaye, professor of social work and director of the University of Maine Center on Aging, was cited in the Forbes report, “How to reduce loneliness in old age.” The Gerontological Society of America’s Public Policy and Aging Report recently dedicated an issue to the potential consequences of a lack of social […]
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The Hartford Courant published the opinion piece, “Protector of whales, dolphins threatened,” by Quinn Carey, a University of Maine senior majoring in marine sciences.
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Renae Moran, a tree fruit specialist with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension and an associate professor of pomology for UMaine’s School of Food and Agriculture, spoke with the Bangor Daily News for an article about pruning fruit trees. “This is the time of year when the temperature starts to warm up and there’s less […]
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The Bangor Daily News cited a 2016 study conducted by Mindy Crandall, an assistant professor of forest landscape management at the University of Maine, in the “State & Capitol” blog post, “LePage’s bleak take on Maine forest industry jobs doesn’t add up.” At a recent meeting with U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, Gov. Paul LePage […]
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Mainebiz and Boothbay Register reported Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences has been awarded funding from the Maine Sea Grant College Program for a new study of kelp forests in the Gulf of Maine. Douglas Rasher, senior research scientist at Bigelow, will lead the project with support from University of Maine scientist Robert Steneck, continuing a […]
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The Lincoln County News reported Christopher Rigaud, University of Maine’s diving operations manager, was one of four instructors at a two-week dive leadership workshop in February at the University of Southern California’s Wrigley Institute for Environmental Sciences. Based at the Darling Marine Center in Walpole, Rigaud conducts diver training, dive support, and operational supervision for […]
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