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EES Faculty member and Professor of Soil Science introduced former Senator George Mitchell, who delivered the closing keynote address at BIOGEMON, a climate change conference hosted by 91¸£Àû in Northport which drew over 200 people from the U.S. and abroad. Fernandez and Professor Emeritus Stephen Norton were instrumental in planning the conference. For the full […]

EES Faculty member and Professor of Soil Science introduced former Senator George Mitchell at BIOGEMON, a climate change conference in Northport, Maine which drew over 200 people from the U.S. and abroad. For the full story, visit the Bangor Daily News article link below. http://bangordailynews.com/2012/07/19/news/midcoast/science-long-term-monitoring-should-guide-environmental-policy-george-mitchell-says/?ref=latest

Several media outlets, including the Bangor Daily News covered a keynote address given Thursday by former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell at the BIOGEOMON conference in Northport, Maine. The conference was co-hosted by 91¸£Àû. Mitchell told hundreds of international scientists, students and researchers that precise data can help solve problems such as streams, lakes and soils […]

91¸£Àû Gets $3 Million NSF IGERT Award For An Adaptation To Abrupt Climate Change Program The need to adapt environmental policies and management strategies to meet the social and ecological challenges caused by abrupt climate change events around the world is the focus of a new graduate program at the University of Maine beginning this […]

EES Faculty member and 91¸£Àû Economist Jonathan Rubin was part of a team of researchers that found the fuels of the future will be cleaner, cheaper and more “made in America” if the United States adopts a national Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS). For more information, visit: http://umaine.edu/news/blog/2012/07/18/umaine-economist-part-of-national-energy-project/

EES Faculty Member Ivan Fernandez is co-leading a landmark whole-watershed manipulation project to study effects of acid precipitation. Read more about the study and its impacts on our understanding of forest soil and water quality in Maine’s North Woods in the Summer 2012 issue of 91¸£Àû Today.    

EES Faculty member and University of Maine professor of insect ecology Frank Drummond has received $3.3 million as part of a larger $6.6 million grant-funded regional study of native bees, which are necessary and critical players in fruit and berry crop pollination in the Northeast. For the full story, visit the 91¸£Àû News Blog.

More than a quarter-century ago, University of Maine geochemist Stephen Norton, forest soils scientist Ivan Fernandez and colleagues wrote a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency grant proposal that launched a landmark whole-watershed manipulation project to study effects of acid precipitation. Norton, a national expert on acid rain, and his research team identified the perfect spot in […]

Maggie Burns, EES 2012 with a concentration in Environmental Sciences, was awarded the John F. Boyle Prize in Ecology and Environmental Sciences on April 25 at a ceremony held at the University Club. The award is given each year to the top graduating senior in Ecology and Environmental Sciences. Maggie’s advisor Ivan Fernandez wrote in […]

Two EES faculty members were recipients of the 2012 NSFA Faculty Awards. NSFA Outstanding Public Service Award—2012 Robert J. Lilieholm, E.L. Giddings Associate Professor of Forest Policy School of Forest Resources Rob Lilieholm’s primary focus is on forest economics and policy, important areas in the most heavily forested state in the nation. His commitment to […]