Research assistant professor Kimberley Miner ’18 Ph.D. recently discovered pesticide pollutants, including the insecticide DDT, in an unlikely place: a remote Alaskan glacier and its meltwater. The pesticides, Miner states, were deposited and stored near the surface of the Jarvis Glacier in Alaska and are more than likely transported from Asia where they are used…
Engineering Professor Andrew “Andy” Goupee enjoys the outdoors — hiking, biking, camping, and swimming, surrounded by wind and water. And wind and water are also the focus of his research interests. Goupee has conducted research on floating wind turbines, first as a research assistant professor at the Advanced Structures and Composites Center, and since 2014…
UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center showed off another of its many innovations last week: the successful testing of the “72-Hour Bridge,” a bridge system that can be built in fewer than three days and is designed to last 100 years with little or no maintenance. The project is part of the Transportation Infrastructure Durability…
For Prof. Marie Hayes, sleep is not simple, quiet rest; rather, it can hold clues about different human conditions. “Sleep is a great frontier,” she explains. “We know a lot less about it than daytime behavior.” Hayes, who joined the UMaine faculty in 1988, is a psychology professor and member of the Graduate School of…
“I can’t imagine a better place to be than the Darling Marine Center, as a scientist and as someone who’s passionate about doing what I can to make science more relevant and useful to people’s daily lives,” Heather Leslie told Aliya Uteuova ’18 in an interview last fall. Founded in 1965, the Darling Marine Center’s…
Katie Doyle ’16 was raised by a family of engineers who encouraged her to tinker and ask questions. “My grandfather gave me my first electronics kit when I was 5, and I made every project in the book,” she says. “Engineering was always kind of on my radar as being something I would enjoy.” Doyle’s…
When this month’s Dirigo Award recipient, Eddie Gonnella, departed for college in 2013, he didn’t journey very far—just a five-minute drive from his home in Old Town. But following his graduation from UMaine on May 13th, long-distance travel will be a regular occurrence for him as he takes on an unexpected opportunity, one he earned…
People tell UMaine Engineering Professor Per Gårder that he’s a life-saver. For good reason. In 1992, along with UMaine colleague Dr. John Alexander, Gårder began the first academic research in the United States on the effectiveness of rumble strips, those corrugated sections of roadway that create loud noise and vibration when a vehicle’s tires cross…
This December, members of the University of Maine student group Engineers Without Borders will embark on a second assessment trip to the community of El Descanso, Ecuador. The trip is intended to lay the groundwork for the development of a sustainable water supply system. In May 2016, four EWB-UMaine students completed an initial visit to…
Gordon Hamilton, a University of Maine professor in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences, and a researcher with the Climate Change Institute, died in a field accident Oct. 22 while conducting research in Antarctica. He was 50. Hamilton, a physical glaciologist, was working on White Island in the Ross Archipelago in Antarctica, an area…
2016 Atlantic Miniboat Regatta with a nearly 5-foot unmanned sailboat equipped with GPS to track its voyage to Europe by way of the ocean currents. The regatta is organized by Educational Passages, a Belfast, Maine-based program that teaches school-age children about ocean sciences. Since 2008, the program has worked with university partners and others to…