College of Earth, Life, and Health Sciences

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 […]

Spring in the North Atlantic is formidable. Storm-lashed, frigid, gray. The subpolar region is so tumultuous that ever-vigilant space satellites often can’t penetrate the almost perpetual cloud cover, unable to provide a clear view of one of the most important life-sustaining events on the planet — the spring phytoplankton bloom. That means if researchers ever […]

Kathleen P. Bell, an associate professor in the School of Economics, has received an international Sören Wibe Prize from the Swedish Journal of Forest Economics for an article she coauthored in 2011 on evaluating programs designed to protect forests from the invasive forest pest hemlock woolly adelgid. Bell and coauthors Thomas P. Holmes, a U.S. […]

University of Maine graduate student Sarah Morehead will be the keynote speaker at a Sept. 22 event for men and women interested in learning more about money and how it affects their lives. “Fall Into Financial Fitness” will be held from 8:45 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in Eastport Hall on the Bangor campus of the […]

Editors Note: UMaine marine scientist Rhian Waller is currently on an National Geographic and National Science Foundation funded expedition in the fjords around Chile, where she is studying the reproductive ecology of deep-sea corals and links to climate change and fishing pressures. National Geographic is following along with the expedition on its News Watch website. Waller […]

A University of Maine researcher who specializes in the economics of energy, light-duty transportation, greenhouse gas emissions and alternative fuels is heading to Alberta, Canada, Aug. 28-30 to participate in a tour of the Canadian oil sands region, which contains one of the largest proven oil reserves in the world second only to Saudi Arabia. […]

UMaine graduate student Kate Ruskin and several fellow students spent the summer working in Scarborough, Maine, under the direction of Brian Olsen, an assistant professor in UMaine’s School of Biology and Ecology who is researching Maine’s tidal marsh birds. The students captured birds and tracked nests to help explain how new species are formed and […]

University of Maine Forest Bioproducts Research Institute faculty members David Neivandt and Douglas Gardner will accompany 10 undergraduate students from across the country on a weeklong trip to Chile as part of a National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates (NSF REU) program, a 10-week summer research experience based at UMaine and funded by the […]

UMaine students Katie Chenard and David Bridges, who are serving as interns this summer for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, were profiled in a Bangor Daily News story and video. Chenard and Bridges are living on Metinic Island to protect migratory seabirds that nest there. In addition to enhancing nesting grounds and monitoring predator […]

Maddelyn Harden, a UMaine marine science student, was listed as a co-author on an article in Working Waterfront newspaper about how restrictions on the herring fishery may lead lobstermen to search for alternative bait sources, which could lead to impacts on lobster health, human health, public perception and the marine ecosystem. Catherine Schmitt, the communications […]