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Safety
in Numbers - May / June 2008 |
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Economist Mary Davis
undertakes active environmental sampling in order to understand the
cost of exposure to airborne pollutants and other safety hazards in
our everyday lives. |
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Sea
Current
- May / June 2008 |
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A group of UMaine
researchers exploring the facets of tidal power are helping to make
the university a leading source of public information about the new
technology and its role in the larger energy picture of the state
and the nation. |
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Paradise
Lost - March / April 2008 |
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The potential collapse
of biologically diverse and economically important ecosystems
suggests a global atmospheric crisis that could seriously harm
fisheries around the world, according to UMaine marine scientist
Robert Steneck. |
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Taking
the Heat -
March / April 2008 |
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Acoustic wave sensors
being developed at UMaine's Laboratory for Surface Science and
Technology could provide the key to monitoring high temperature,
vibration and corrosion in Air Force jet engines. |
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Life
Altering -
March / April 2008 |
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Michael Kinnison and two
colleagues have gathered more than 3,000 estimates of physical and
behavioral changes in wild animals. The result is proof that humans
not only affect animals' evolutionary processes, but also cause
their traits to change twice as fast. |
