School of Biology and Ecology student, Elizabeth Wood of Catlett, Virginia, has been named the Outstanding Graduating Student in the College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture at the University of Maine. Wood is an honors student majoring in biology with a pre-med concentration, and a minor in chemistry. She is a member of UMaine’s […]

SBE Academic Awards Highest GPA in a major within the School First Year Katherine Evans Lucia Guarnieri Emily Gagne Sophomore Jackson Foley Callie Greco Jacqueline Lambert Junior Sigrid Koizar Kaitlin Clark Haley Netherton Senior Elizabeth Wood Erik Holmsen School of Biology & Ecology Academic Achievement Award Awarded to the graduating senior having the highest GPA […]

Hamish Greig has received a Maine Sea Grant to study Atlantic Salmon. Click here to read the full story. Maine Sea Grant awards funds for three UMaine research projects  

Chris Baker, a postdoc from the Jackson Laboratory, and Michelle Smith, and assistant professor in the School of Biology and Ecology and member of the Maine Center for Research in STEM Education, were awarded a PALM fellowship from the Genetics Society of America. This is the first year the PALM fellowship has been awarded, and […]

   Living in one place, studying one central ecosystem, working with a species that can be explained in one sentence…these things, among many others, will likely never play a role in Danielle Levesque’s research in the mammalian world. Ever since discovering in her undergraduate years that she did not need to be a vet to […]

We will meet: This & Every Thursday @ 11:00 – 12:15 in centrally located  101 Norman Smith Hall Intended for students, faculty, and staff! This spring, faculty from Biology & Ecology, Economics, and Wildlife Ecology will again offer a weekly discussion group open to all who are interested.  Largely the group will cover three themes across both non-human and human systems: […]

Dr. Michael Kinnison and School of Biology and Ecology graduate student, Nikko Shaidani, are featured in UMaine Today for their work on red-backed salamanders. They discuss how the mainland species came to be abundant residents of almost all the Maine coastal islands and how genetic testing offers clues to their evolutionary history and diversity. https://umainetoday.umaine.edu/archives/fallwinter-2015/mysterious-islanders/ […]

Dr. Jacquelyn Gill talks about climate change, the impact of large mammals on ecosystems, and the de-extinction of the woolly mammoths in this UMaine Today feature. https://umainetoday.umaine.edu/archives/fallwinter-2015/thinking-big/  

Kristy Townsend’s scientific roots reach back to her undergraduate years at the University of Maine. “Some of the most important and formative scientific experiences in my life were when I was mentored as a young scientist and was able to work alongside faculty on novel research projects,” says Townsend, whose undergraduate research included collaboration with […]

Dr. Rebecca Holberton talks about declining migration numbers of songbirds in this UMaine Today article. Holberton: Birds of a feather don’t always migrate together  

Orono, Maine — Andrew Galimberti, an entomology graduate student at the University of Maine, was part of a research team that discovered that bigger isn’t necessarily better for a fish during an extinction event. Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and UMaine found that for at least 40 million years following the last massive extinction, […]

The extinction of mammoths, ground sloths and other large plant-eaters thousands of years ago triggered shifts in global habitats and changes in ecosystems, says University of Maine paleoecologist Jacquelyn Gill. The assistant professor in the School of Biology and Ecology and the Climate Change Institute says fossils and other records from the deep past provide […]

ORONO, Maine — Males and females of many different species are often visibly different from one another. Scientists call these differences ‘sexual dimorphism‘ and it has been studied extensively by evolutionary biologists all of the way back to Charles Darwin. But what is not yet clearly understood is how these differences impact an entire ecosystem. Researchers […]

On Saturday, October 3rd, Professor Emerita Christa Schwintzer will be leading a fall plant walk along the boardwalk in Orono, located in the Rolland F. Perry City Forest. Throughout the walk participants will observe changes that plants undergo during the fall, allowing them to survive the winter and then quickly resume growth in the spring. […]

Frank Drummond, an entomology specialist with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension and a UMaine professor of insect ecology, was quoted in the NPR report, “Asian countries have Nordic berry fever, and Finland can’t keep up.” Every day, about 7,000 Thai workers search the woods of Finland and Sweden for bilberries, lingonberries and cloudberries. Using […]

The School of Biology & Ecology is pleased to present this years Friday Seminar Series schedule for fall 2015. The purpose of these seminars is to highlight an array of leading research fields and interests from professors and researches located all over the country. Seminars will be held on Fridays at 3:00 pm in 107 […]

Click on the links below to view the schedule Wildlife, Fisheries, and Conservation Biology The School of Forest Resources

What: A weekly seminar-style, semi-formal gathering of ecologists (broadly defined). Students can take the class for credit (EES 590), but everyone — students, staff, faculty, and postdocs — are welcome to attend. We discuss papers, share data, do stats throwdowns, practice talks, etc. Who: Hosted by Jacquelyn Gill, Brian Olsen (SBE), Brian McGill (SBE), Tim […]