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Research in Belize Leads to Revised Timeline of Ancient City’s History

An anthropologist revises the timeline of the growth and decline of a Maya city in Belize.

UMaine Center in Partnership to Gather Deepwater Offshore Hub Height Wind Measurements in the Gulf of Maine

Researchers are working to develop better sensor technology for assessing deepwater offshore conditions.

Improving Educational Outreach

Enhancing community educational presentations with peer discussion, clicker technology Clicker technology and peer discussion — two educational tools typically used in school and college classrooms — have positive results when used in educational outreach for adults in the community, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of Maine. The study was […]

UMaine in Partnership to Continue Developing Online Offshore Wind Database

UMaine partners on online database to expand the accessibility of state and federal resources.

Simulating a Watershed

Local middle-schoolers use a UMaine-designed simulation to learn about watersheds.

Climate Change Institute Researchers Heading to South Georgia Island

Researchers with UMaine’s Climate Change Institute will be blogging while on a trip to South Georgia Island in the South Atlantic Ocean. The expedition members are Climate Change Institute Director Paul Mayewski, UMaine graduate students Bjorn Grigholm and Mariusz Potocki, UMaine postdoctoral researcher Dan Dixon, Chilean researchers Gino Casassa and Marcelo Arevalo, EMT medic Alex […]

40 Years of Climate Change Research

How do ice cores give scientists a picture of the past in order to better understand what will happen in the future?

Graduate Student Wins Video Competition

Bess Koffman, a University of Maine Ph.D. student who works with Karl Kreutz, a UMaine professor in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences and the Climate Change Institute, recently won the “Lights, Camera, Science” student video contest sponsored by the American Geophysical Union. Koffman and Thomas Bauska of Oregon State, who made the 4 […]

UMaine Extension Researching Market Potential of Antioxidant-Rich Aronia Berry

With the help of UMaine Extension, an antioxidant-rich chokeberry could become a new niche crop for Maine farmers.

Mapping the Empire

A geography professor’s historical research traces Britain’s ambitious efforts to survey its North American holdings.