Recently, bigger ocean storms have knocked out hundreds of Maine lobster docks, intense rainfalls have kept the Androscoggin River well above flood level for many days in April and power was out for 10 hours to several days in parts of the Midcoast. Increasingly intense weather events are becoming the new norm, so many Maine […]
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Daniel Dennett, atheist philosopher guided by science, dies at 82
A Boston native, he was a resident of Cape Elizabeth at the time of his death.
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BoomerTECH Adventures: Access great reads 24/7
Recently, I was powering up every digital device in my house so I could download my Kindle books to several devices. A storm was coming, and I just couldn’t be without access to books to read. I started wondering about digital access to books in 2024. I suspected it had expanded since last I checked, […]
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Maine researchers, students are sorting through muck and slugs to study baby scallops
The Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries hopes the work will strengthen what could become a complicated relationship between fishermen and farmers who depend on the same juvenile scallops to do their work.
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Anne Innis Dagg, pioneering giraffe researcher, dies at 91
The Canadian zoologist conducted trailblazing studies of wild giraffes and was featured in the 2018 documentary ‘The Woman Who Loves Giraffes.’
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UMaine team prepares to document total eclipse from the moon’s point of view
A video feed from a balloon drifting 90,000 feet above Maine will show the shadow pass over Earth as if seeing the eclipse from the vantage point of the moon.
Posted inTimes Record
Intertidal: Across the pond, April Fools’ pranks are fish-based
My daughter is studying French in school and recently informed me, after pranking me that she’d failed a recent test, that in France, April Fools’ Day is known as “poisson d’avril,” or April Fish. While I have done silly things like hiding a bouncy ball that looks like an eyeball in my kids’ lunch box […]
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NASA satellite could help identify best places to grow oysters, scallops in Gulf of Maine
Two University of Maine researchers are involved with an effort to log the most detailed data on record about the color and health of the ocean. The findings could have a range of impacts in Maine.
Posted inTimes Record
Intertidal: Smoked or salted, preserving fish a tasty way to extend shelf life
Because I was away over the St. Patrick’s Day weekend, my family celebrated the holiday this past weekend. Fortunately, we got through our boiled dinner before the power went out — not the dishes, sadly. While the traditional dinner includes corned beef, potatoes and cabbage, I had to include some seafood. Salmon is a popular […]
Posted inCoastal Journal, Northern Forecaster, The Forecaster
‘Signs of the Season’ citizen science trainings scheduled
University of Maine Cooperative Extension and Maine Sea Grant will begin a series of workshops next week for those interested in participating in the Signs of the Seasons citizen science project, a statewide initiative to identify and record cyclical and seasonal changes in more than 20 different indicator species, such as milkweed, butterflies and loons, […]