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Though freshwater systems are known to be important indicators for understanding climate change, little has been done to connect the existing science on freshwater bodies in the Arctic in order to determine patterns that will help better understand the region. A University of Maine-led review has tied together the existing research about Arctic freshwater systems’ […]
Luke Goldman was working as an ocean rescue lifeguard on the Jersey Shore when he decided that he wanted to study ecology. Now, he has moved up the East Coast to become a marine protector of a different sort: a researcher at the forefront of using eDNA to try and save the Atlantic cod. After […]
In his latest column, Mickey Friedman lays out how the EPA and General Electric can clean up Housatonic River PCB contamination without relying on the proposed plan to create a toxic waste dump in Lee.
ORONO — The Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine will host a talk about water insecurity and health in the U.S. and Canada, including the effects in rural and Indigenous communities, Monday, Nov...
Reply Dr. George Whitmore "Whit" Hancock, Jr., 79, of Marietta, OH passed away July 14, 2021, in Marietta. He was preceded in death by his parents, George Whitmore Hancock, Sr. and Page Turner Hancock. He is survived by his beloved wife of 41 years, Carole Wylie Hancock, PhD, whom he married August 9, 1980, his sister, Ellen Hancock Wickersham of Atlanta, GA and loving cousins. Born on April 25, 1942, in Richmond, VA, Whit was raised in Hampton and Newport News, VA, where he graduated as president and valedictorian of Newport News High School. He received his undergraduate and PhD degrees in...