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On April 22, President Biden announced his nomination of oceanographer Rick Spinrad to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Spinrad was previously head of NOAA’s research office from 2005 to 2010 and its chief scientist from 2014 through 2016. Between those positions, he was vice president for research at Oregon State University, where he is currently a faculty member and senior advisor.
NOAA has not had a Senate-confirmed leader in more than four years, as neither of President Trump’s two nominees for the role ever received floor votes. Pending his confirmation, Spinrad will take the agency’s helm as it seeks to reinvigorate its role in monitoring and researching changes in the climate. The Biden administration is proposing to increase NOAA’s budget by more than 25% to $6.9 billion in fiscal year 2022, largely to support such efforts.
Picomonas judraskeda
MICHAEL MELKONIAN
Picozoans have puzzled scientists ever since their surprising discovery almost 15 years ago. These common, globally distributed microbes are barely bigger than bacteria, yet they’re members of the same domain as animals, fungi, and plants, and everything from what they eat to where they fit into the eukaryotic tree of life has proven difficult to pin down.
Now, a preprint uploaded to
bioRxiv on April 14 claims to have found these perplexing microbes an evolutionary home. But the paper, which is currently undergoing peer review, suggests picozoans aren’t done surprising scientists. If the authors’ conclusions are right, then these microbes are indeed algae, even though they seem to lack the group’s most notable feature: plastids, a group of organelles that includes chloroplasts.
Louise Monroe, Center for Teaching and Learning Mon, 05/03/2021 - 11:30am
CTL reading buddies enjoy reading new books together. Courtesy of CTL
On Friday, May 7, the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) in Edgecomb will be holding its biennial Celebrate CTL Silent Auction. For the first time, the auction will be held virtually. Funds raised at the auction contribute to the school’s scholarship fund and provide ongoing program support for our K through 8th grade school that serves an economically diverse population of kids from the Midcoast area.
The silent auction opened Friday, April 30 at https://center-teaching-learning.betterworld.org/
Bidding will remain open until 9 p.m. on Friday, May 7. There are an assortment of gift certificates, memberships, rentals, and more wonderful items up for bid.
A lack of health care hits residents especially hard in Maine, with the oldest population in the country, and so the Democratic challenger in the state’s Second Congressional District is focused on saddling the incumbent with his vote to kill “Obamacare,” following a playbook unfolding across the country. Rep. Bruce Poliquin, New England’s only Republican in the House of Representatives,. President Sep 6, 2018