School of Biology and Ecology

Congratulations to UMaine SBE alums Dr. Kim Dao and Jay Knowlton, MPH on receiving the Rising Star Award, and congratulations to all the 2022 Alumni Achievement Award Winners! https://www.umainealumni.com/category-alumni/meet-the-2022-alumni-achievement-award-winners/      

UMaine celebrates highest number of NSF CAREER Award Recipients in 2021

SBE Assistant Professor Danielle Levesque will be giving a lecture, “Mammal Hibernation: It’s not all about the cold,” on Thursday, January 13, at 7 pm, as part of the Versant Astronomy Center’s Science Lecture Series: https://bit.ly/3eMFDmQ

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/jan-1-our-annual-holiday-listener-question-show-1.6295556 

Mercury exposure in tidal marshes affecting breeding success of two sparrow species 

https://obituaries.bangordailynews.com/obituary/howard-forsythe-jr-1083396419    

Gill co-authors report arguing Anthropocene should be a geological event, not an epoch

How Climate Change Is Giving Maine’s Wild Blueberries The Blues

UMaine-led research team discovers evidence of prehistoric human activity in Falkland Islands

Mereghetti analyzes ‘time capsules’ from last ice age *Ecology and Environmental Science is an interdisciplinary program spanning multiple departments, including the School of Biology and Ecology.

Fewer frogs died by vehicles in the outset of the pandemic, study finds

            A recent paper published in New Phytologist by SBE graduate student Lance Stasinski was featured by CNN. Stasinski and his colleagues showed that leaf reflectance spectra – the way different wavelengths of light reflect from a leaf – can be used to accurately detect populations and the genomic ancestry […]

Per UMaine News, Mech’s New Spruce Budworm Testing Lab at UMaine is critical to mitigating impact of destructive insect. The Bangor Daily News has also featured a story on the invasive pest and the new testing lab.

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S5E1: How do we protect our forests from invasive species?

We’re happy to share that our friends at the Maine Science Festival are planning the return of the Festival in 2022. See below for more details:    2022 MSF – Call for Ideas! We have begun planning for the in-person return of the Maine Science Festival in March 16-20, 2022, as long as it is […]

View the video at https://www.wabi.tv/2021/09/18/umaine-students-host-bioblitz-campus-discover-animal-plant-life/ UMaine students host BioBlitz on campus to discover animal and plant life By Owen Kingsley Published: Sep. 18, 2021 at 7:29 PM EDT|Updated: Sep. 18, 2021 at 7:33 PM EDT ORONO, Maine (WABI) – Did you know many different species live on the UMaine campus? Students and members of the community have […]

The University of Maine was awarded a $25,000 Presidential Grant by the Davis Educational Foundation in the summer of 2021 to support initiatives  in preparation for fall teaching — Teaching Labs Remotely and a Faculty Ambassador Program. Dr. McGuire’s hard work to develop innovative approaches to teaching the BIO 100 lab remotely this fall was […]

Graduate students host BioBlitz to count species on campus

After a year of Zoom-only seminars, for Fall 2021 we are returning to in-person seminars in 102 Murray Hall. Join us at 2 pm on Friday, September 3, for Newbie Faculty Narratives! SBE’s newer faculty members (those who’ve joined us since 2019) will give brief talks. Featuring Angela Mech, Dudu Meireles, Matt Chatfield, Erin Grey, […]