Alaska Dispatch News posted a map from the Climate Reanalyzer website in an article about a deep freeze predicted to descend on North America, Europe and Asia due to record-high temperatures across the Arctic. “Think of it like a seesaw,” said Matt Rogers, president of Commodity Weather Group in Bethesda, Maryland. When winter temperatures rise […]
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United Press International wrote about University of Maine economist Timothy Waring’s work to develop a theory of sustainability, including which combination of sociopolitical factors and institutions are most likely to encourage sustainable resource management. Cooperation within social groups may be key, Waring says. “We found that sustainable use of resources emerged more when societies were […]
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Nory Jones and Harold Daniel, professors with the Maine Business School at the University of Maine, spoke with Maine Public for a report about getting a new potato variety on store shelves. The Caribou Russet, which was developed by the Maine Potato Board and UMaine’s School of Food and Agriculture, was unveiled more than a […]
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Jill Pelto’s watercolor “Decline in Glacier Mass Balance” is the cover art for the Mainebiz 2017 Book of Lists, published Dec. 26. Pelto is a graduate student in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences at the University of Maine, where she graduated in December 2015 with bachelor degrees in studio art and Earth science. […]
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The Associated Press ranked a story that stemmed from University of Maine research — that baby lobsters might not be able to survive in the ocean’s warming waters — as the No. 10 story this year in Maine. WABI (Channel 5) and The Washington Times carried the AP’s top 10 list. University of Maine Darling […]
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VillageSoup advanced a Jan. 18 informational session about a Master’s of Social Work Weekend Cohort at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center in Belfast. The new MSW weekend cohort is slated for fall 2017 in Belfast; applications will be reviewed starting Feb. 1.
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The online science magazine Nautilus mentioned the role played by Joyce Longcore and Joan Brooks at the University of Maine in advancing research on chytrid, a fungus that is the biggest threat to the world’s montane amphibian populations. In 1984, Brooks, who earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in peat engineering and science at UMaine, was […]
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Lenard Kaye, director of the University of Maine Center on Aging and professor in the UMaine School of Social Work, spoke with the Bangor Daily News for the article, “Older Mainers thriving despite low levels of personal satisfaction, study shows.” A recent survey developed by Gallup and Healthways ranks Maine 20th in the nation in […]
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Linda Silka, a professor in the School of Economics at the University of Maine, wrote an opinion piece for the Bangor Daily News titled, “Change is a constant. Here’s what we should all know about it.” Silka is a social and community psychologist. She also is a member of the Maine chapter of the national […]
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Yale Climate Connections published an article on Jill Pelto, a graduate student in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences at the University of Maine. Pelto creates environmental artwork as a way to communicate scientific data related to climate change. Pelto grew up immersed in nature and always loved to make art, according to the […]
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