UMaine Franco-American Center to Host Meetings with Council for French Life in America

The University of Maine’s Franco-American Center will host meetings October 4 [2002] to promote ties between the Conseil de la Vie Française en Amérique (Council for French Life in America), or CVFA, and Franco-Americans in Maine. At 2 p.m., the Center’s community council will meet at Crossland Hall with the CVFA administrative board, and Franco-Americans from throughout the state will meet with the board during a reception from 4 to 7 p.m

Information Transfer Materials For Interested Publics: A Survey Of Water Resources Research Institutes

Water Resources Research Institutes (WWRIs) have traditionally targeted technical audiences with information transfer efforts, but non-technical audiences also play a role in decision-making

Water Resources Conference: Watershed Planning in Maine

Watershed planning in Maine suffers from several problems that were identified during a water resources conference held at the University of Maine in April 1994. A brief summary of key conference findings is reported here

Water Management by Local Governments

For most of the era since 1960, when environmental policy and resource policy have been central public issues, the focus of public debates on those policies was at the federal and state levels. Now, more and more of the decisions and policies that will determine the quality of life for citizens are being made at the local level. Issues that have historically been local prerogatives are increasingly identified as crucial for effective environmental policy and for insuring quality of life. Those local decisions are often constrained by a wide variety of state and federal policies on environmental policy and resource use, but effective management of quality of life issues by local governments will clearly require more than reluctant reaction to rules and deadlines imposed from above. Nick Houtman examines the match between the increasing demands for local action on environment-related issues and the local resources available to meet those demands, focusing on local water planning

Big Reed Forest Study Sheds Light on Natural Patterns of Growth and Mortality in Maine Woods

A new view of the constant struggle going on in the Maine woods between trees, diseases and weather has emerged from several years of painstaking research by a team of University of Maine students and faculty. Working in the Big Reed forest preserve in northern Piscataquis County, one of the largest remaining stands of old growth forest in New England, researchers have described patterns of life and death over the past 200 years with an unprecedented level of sophistication and detail. The project was led by Unna Chokkalingam, a Ph.D. student and a native of India. Chokkalingam received her undergraduate education at the University of Madras in India and her Masters degree at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. At UMaine, Chokkalingam received guidance from Alan White, advisor on the project and an associate professor in the Dept. of Forest Ecosystem Science, as well as faculty in biological sciences and spatial information science and engineering. The research was funded by the Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station

Dense Galactic Superclusters Add New Structural Details to the Universe

At the American Astronomical Society meeting in Austin, Texas, Thursday, January 7, 1999, astronomers David Batuski and Chris Miller of the University of Maine, presented evidence of two relatively rare types of galaxy superclusters in a single colossal complex in the southern part of the constellation Aquarius. The complex consists of two long filaments, one of which is the longest such object yet seen, and a dense knot of clusters. These findings add significantly to the emerging picture of large-scale structure in the present-day universe and provide some well-defined examples of structure that must be explained by processes in the fireball of the Big Bang. Future analysis of the knot of clusters, when studied in detail with three other similar clumps of clusters, may prove that some vast objects may be collapsing within our otherwise expanding universe

1998, UMaine News Press Releases

This is an incomplete catalog of press releases posted by the University of Maine Division of Marketing and Communications online from September 15 to December 4, 1998

2005, UMaine News Press Releases

This is a catalog of press releases put out by the University of Maine Division of Marketing and Communications between January 19. 2005 and December 29. 2005

2004, UMaine News Press Releases

This is a catalog of press releases put out by the University of Maine Division of Marketing and Communications between January 12, 2004 and December 21, 2004