The University of Maine was mentioned in a Medium article about a project to restore Arctic charr at Big Reed Pond. The Arctic charr, also known as blueback trout, is found in just one state in the Lower 48 — Maine. Charr were the first fish species to colonize Maine waters when the glaciers receded […]
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Ellyn Enderlin, a University of Maine research assistant professor in the Climate Change Institute and the School of Earth and Climate Sciences, was quoted in the National Geographic article, “What Greenland’s ‘unprecedented’ ice loss means for Earth.” A new study published in the journal Nature found that the melting of the Greenland ice sheet is […]
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Phys.org, Alaska Native News, ScienceDaily and Lab Manager published a University of Maine news release on a recent study led by Kimberley Miner, a research assistant professor at the Climate Change Institute. Children in Alaska whose diet includes a lot of fish from rivers fed by the Eastern Alaska Mountain Range may have a long-term elevated risk […]
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Children in Alaska whose diet includes a lot of fish from rivers fed by the Eastern Alaska Mountain Range may have a long-term elevated risk for cancer because of insecticides — including DDT — in the meltwater. Even with low levels of organochlorine pollutants (OCPs) in glacial meltwater, the risk of cancer for youth and […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported on a $17,500 grant from the Maine Department of Environmental Protection that was awarded to Bó Lait dairy farm and Scrapdogs Community Compost. The grant allows the companies to work together to produce nutrient-dense compost and take food scraps out of the waste stream, according to the article. Travis Blackmer, […]
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The University of Maine’s Alice Kelley, an instructor in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences and a research associate professor with the Climate Change Institute, and Bonnie Newsom, an assistant professor of anthropology, spoke with the Island Journal for an article about Maine shell middens. There are thousands of shell heaps around the coast […]
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Stephen Coghlan, an associate professor of freshwater fisheries ecology at the University of Maine, is featured in the latest article in the Portland Press Herald’s “Meet” series. The article was published ahead of his Dec. 3 talk, “Can Homesteading Provide Sustenance and Surplus in an Age of Scarcity?” at UMaine’s Senator George J. Mitchell Center […]
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Sierra magazine interviewed members of the University of Maine School of Earth and Climate Sciences — Annie Boucher, a master’s student and research assistant, and Seth Campbell, a research geophysicist and assistant professor — for the article “On the Juneau Icefield, Women Reimagine Who Does Science.” Boucher, who also is the program manager of the […]
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The Associated Press reported the University of Maine will receive funding from NOAA Sea Grant, which supports fishery and coastal projects, for aquaculture research. Three researchers at UMaine’s Aquaculture Research Institute will receive more than $700,000 to work on ways to address the issue of sea lice in salmon farming, according to AP. Another UMaine […]
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A blog chronicling the recent international teaching experience of two professors in the University of Maine School of Marine Sciences is now available online. Lee Karp-Boss and Emmanuel Boss just returned from teaching in the Sentinel North International Ph.D. School at the Université Laval in Québec City, Canada July 12–24. Students and mentors from 12 […]
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