Mainebiz reported on research being conducted at the University of Maine Darling Marine Center in Walpole that seeks to take the risk out of selecting aquaculture sites by using buoys, sensors and other instrumentation to monitor water conditions for optimal growth of particular species. “The aquaculture industry in Maine in the last five to 10 […]
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The Bangor Daily News spoke with Jonathan Rubin, an economics professor at the University of Maine, for an article about biofuel research in the state. Efforts to develop a wood-based biofuel, particularly jet fuel, from Maine’s abundant timberland got a boost last month when the U.S. Department of Defense announced a $3.3 million investment into […]
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David Yarborough, a blueberry specialist with the University of Maine’s Cooperative Extension and a professor of horticulture in the School of Food and Agriculture, spoke with the Kennebec Journal for an article about wild blueberries on Mount Pisgah in Winthrop. Conservationists with the Kennebec Land Trust, an organization that manages Mount Pisgah, said highbush blueberries […]
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The Morning Sentinel, Bangor Daily News, Mainebiz and WVII (Channel 7) reported on the beginning of a federal team’s tour of the state’s forest products industry. U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development Matt Erskine and representatives from several federal agencies began the three-day Economic Development Assessment Team visit with a meeting with […]
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The Portland Press Herald cited University of Maine research in an article about the effects cruise ships have on the environment and economy, specifically in Portland. Studies by a pair of UMaine professors and more recently, a 2015 survey conducted by a private research firm on behalf a collaboration between the city of Portland and […]
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Samuel Belknap, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology and the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, was featured in a four-part film series produced by the Island Institute. “A Climate of Change” highlights fishing communities threatened by the effects of a changing climate and what they are doing to adapt. The […]
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David Yarborough, a blueberry specialist with the University of Maine’s Cooperative Extension and a professor of horticulture in the School of Food and Agriculture, spoke with the Kennebec Journal for an article about how some Maine blueberry farmers are using irrigation systems to deal with the recent drought. Maine is about halfway through its typical […]
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Mindy Crandall, an assistant professor of forest management and economics at the University of Maine, wrote an opinion piece for the Bangor Daily News. The article is titled, “What the rest of us gain by investing in Maine’s forest economy.”
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Without a sound, safe and efficient transportation infrastructure, Bill Davids says we wouldn’t have an economy. “That truck that just drove over this bridge carrying goods to wherever wouldn’t be able to make its trip; the ambulance wouldn’t be able to get to your house; you wouldn’t be able to get to work in the […]
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The Associated Press, Bangor Daily News, Portland Press Herald, WABI (Channel 5), Maine Public Broadcasting Network, WLBZ (Channel 2), WVII (Channel 7) and Mainebiz covered a news conference July 29 at the University of Maine with U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development Matt Erskine. At the event, Erskine announced the U.S. Department […]
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