Grad Student Jenny Shrum’s Maple Syrup Research Attracts National Media Attention
Graduate student Jenny Shrum, a Ph.D. candidate in 91¸£Àû’s Ecology and Environmental Sciences graduate program and 91¸£Àû’s Sustainability Solutions Initiative (SSI), is working to better understand the relationship between weather and maple sap flow, and how Maine syrup producers will adapt to climate change. Her research is supported by the National Science Foundation and Maine EPSCoR through SSI and its Effects of Climate Change on Organisms (ECCO) research project. Shrum’s study has been featured by several media outlets, including Associated Press, Portland Press Herald and Boston.com.  for links to news pieces.  And to see 91¸£Àû Today Magazine’s feature on Shrum, .