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Stoll quoted in Press Herald piece about lobster shadow markets

University of Maine research professor Joshua Stoll was interviewed for a Portland Press Herald story about North American lobster being traded along indirect and sometimes shadowy routes through Hong Kong and Vietnam to China. Stoll told the paper that the implications could be significant for the state’s lobster industry. He and Swedish researcher Beatrice Crona, […]

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KJ announces Frankhauser’s Garden Club scholarship

The Kennebec Journal reported that Kevin Frankhauser, a junior forestry student at the University of Maine, will receive a $1,000 Barrows Scholarship from the Kennebec Valley Garden Club. Frankhauser, who can assist in fighting forest fires, has interned with the Maine Chapter of the American Chestnut Foundation, where he focused on planting, inoculating, collecting data […]

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Boothbay Register previews Runge’s talk at DMC

The Boothbay Register advanced a talk titled “Plankton, Right Whales and Change in Gulf of Maine Ecosystem” by University of Maine professor of oceanography Jeffrey Runge at 10:30 a.m. Friday, July 14 in Brooke Hall at the Darling Marine Center. The talk is free and open to the public; registration is requested.

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Aroostook Republican reports on potato beetle cannibalism

Andrei Alyokhin, director of the School of Biology and Ecology, spoke with the Aroostook Republican about his research results involving Colorado potato cannibalism. He found that in a laboratory, Colorado potato beetles facing starvation and crowding ate beetle eggs and young beetles and injured beetles and other adults. Alyokhin said while it’s a laboratory study […]

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Morning Ag Clips advances J.F. Witter Center’s livestock tour, field day

Morning Ag Clips published a University of Maine news release announcing the University of Maine J.F. Witter Teaching & Research Center will host a livestock tour and field day 1–6 p.m. July 12 at 160 University Farm Road, Old Town. Tours will include the center’s horse and dairy facilities, and pastured sheep and poultry flocks. […]

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Steneck mentioned in Free Press article on Maine’s lobster industry

Bob Steneck, a professor of marine sciences at the University of Maine, was included in a Free Press article about the current state of Maine’s lobster industry. Dave Cousens, president of the Maine Lobstermen’s Association, has been fishing out of South Thomaston for 50 years, according to the article. He started recording water temperatures from […]

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Birkel speaks with BDN about above average precipitation over winter, spring

Sean Birkel, Maine’s state climatologist and a research assistant professor at the University of Maine’s School of Earth and Climate Sciences and Climate Change Institute, was interviewed by the Bangor Daily News for the article, “Lots of rain, above average temperatures recorded in June in northern, eastern Maine.” Above average precipitation throughout the state over […]

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Boothbay Register advances DMC talk on fishing, farming scallops

Boothbay Register published a University of Maine news release announcing a Darling Marine Center talk about sea scallops and Maine’s fishing and farming industry. Dana Morse, an Extension associate with Maine Sea Grant and the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, will speak at 10:30 a.m. Friday, July 7 
in Brooke Hall. Morse’s work includes educational […]

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Scallops the topic of Sea Grant Extension associate talk at DMC

Dana Morse will talk about sea scallops and Maine’s fishing and farming industry at 10:30 a.m. Friday, July 7 
in Brooke Hall at the University of Maine Darling Marine Center. Morse is an Extension associate with Maine Sea Grant and the University of Maine Cooperative Extension. His work includes educational programming, technology transfer and applied […]

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Sun Journal interviews nursing student about volunteer trip to Costa Rica

The Sun Journal spoke with University of Maine nursing student Natalie Bolduc of Dixfield for an article about her volunteer trip to Costa Rica. Bolduc was one of 15 UMaine nursing majors who traveled to the Central American country during spring break to provide health care to those in need, according to the article. “They […]

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