News Center Maine shared that rows of wild blueberries were planted last week at the University of Maine Wyman’s Wild Blueberry Research and Innovation Center in Old Town to be used for research about the impact of climate change on wild blueberry crops.
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Peter Breigenzer of Glasgow, Montana, fell in love with forestry while working in the woods with multiple crews over the past several years. When he decided to attend graduate school, he searched for a program that would marry his passion for outdoor work and research, and teach him how to sustainably manage forests. Now more […]
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The Dartmouth Alumni Magazine has featured School of Earth and Climate Sciences Research Professor Edward Grew in the May–June 2023 issue. Grew was a class of 1966 geology major at Dartmouth prior to his Ph.D. at Harvard in 1971. The Dartmouth Alumni Profile was written by Lizzy Strapp, Dartmouth Class of 2025. The magazine commissioned […]
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A recent episode of PBS NOVA featured floating offshore wind research being conducted at the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center. “Within 50 miles of the U.S. coast — both east and west coast — there’s enough offshore wind capacity, theoretically, to power the country four times over,” said Habib Dagher, founding executive […]
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In an article about the possibility of a “robust” El Niño through the rest of 2023 and into 2024, Fox Weather shared data from the University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer showing that the average daily sea surface temperature has hovered around 70 degrees Fahrenheit, which is nearly 2 degrees warmer than the running multi-decade mean. […]
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Michael Socolow, associate professor at the Department of Communications and Journalism, will present at the 2023 Radio Preservation Task Force conference in Washington, D.C., which takes place April 27–30. Socolow, who was a member of the 2023 Conference Organizing Team, has been a member of the Library of Congress’s Radio Preservation Task Force since its […]
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Eric Landis, professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Maine, partnered with researchers at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and the University of Vermont, who are all a part of the Transportation Infrastructure Durability Center (TIDC), for a project entitled “Advanced Sensing Technologies for Practical UAV-Based Condition Assessment” Their work, titled “Bridge […]
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News Center Maine featured Project ITCH, which stands for “Is Tick Control Helping?” The partnership between the University of Maine and the New England Center of Excellence in Vector-borne Diseases will collect ticks from properties where homeowners aren’t doing anything to guard against the parasites in order to give scientists a better idea of what […]
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The Robb Report interviewed Nils Haëntjens, research assistant professor at the University of Maine School of Marine Sciences, about conducting Arctic research on the luxury ice breaker, Le Commandant Charcot.
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The University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center’s Habib Dagher will be featured on PBS NOVA’s latest episode, “Chasing Carbon Zero: Here’s how the U.S. could reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050,” highlighting UMaine’s global leadership in floating offshore wind. The episode airs at 9 p.m. on Wednesday, April 26. The PBS NOVA episode […]
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