BRUNSWICK, Maine, Aug. 25 (TNSres) -- Bowdoin College issued the following news: By Rebecca Goldfine, Tom Porter, Adam Bovie Backed by Bowdoin fellowships, more than a dozen students this summer investigated sea star locomotion, lobster communication, microplastic pollution, and the implications of rising temperatures on ocean ecosystems. Depending on their project, the fellows on any given day were stationed at a bubbling seawater tank in the Schiller Coastal Studies Center's marine lab or r more PR

WATERVILLE, Maine, Aug. 24 (TNSres) -- Colby College issued the following news: * * * Research by a Colby statistics professor and two students has been published in a peer-reviewed journal and downloaded thousands of times * * * People use statistics to seek answers to questions through data, but if the original data used is problematic, it's likely that those answers will be, too. Getting good data--or accurately accounting for imperfect data--is a critically important piece of the probl more PR

ORONO, Maine, Aug. 24 -- Gov. Janet Mills, D-Maine, issued the following news release on Aug. 23, 2023: Governor Janet Mills and U.S. Senator Susan Collins today joined officials from the Northern Border Regional Commission (NBRC) to announce that 16 Maine organizations have been awarded $11 million in Federal funding to strengthen economic opportunity in rural Maine communities. Governor Mills, Senator Collins, and NBRC Federal Co-Chair Chris Saunders unveiled the awards during a visit to the more PR

AUGUSTA, Maine, Aug. 24 -- The Maine Public Utilities Commission issued the following order (No. 2023-00160) on Aug. 23, 2023: * * * CALPINE POWER AMERICA-ME, LLC, Request for Approval of Extension and Waiver to File Annual Report ORDER BARTLETT, Chair; SCULLY and GILBERT, Commissioners I. SUMMARY In this Order, the Commission grants the waivers requested by Calpine Power America-ME, LLC (Calpine), a licensed competitive electricity provider (CEP), with respect to compliance with regulator more PR

ORONO, Maine, Aug. 25 -- The University of Maine issued the following news release: With Earth's oceans facing rapid climate and ecological change, University of Maine faculty will use a $3 million award from the National Science Foundation to create a new training program for graduate students that will support the next generation of marine science and conservation professionals. Over the next five years, Joshua Stoll, an associate professor of marine policy, and his colleagues will design a more PR

DURHAM, New Hampshire, Aug. 24 (TNSres) -- The University of New Hampshire issued the following news release: Researchers at the University of New Hampshire, along with other regional partners, have been monitoring the development of an expansive algal bloom that has formed in the Gulf of Maine--stretching more than a hundred miles from Massachusetts to Maine. The brown, coffee-colored bloom consists mostly of phytoplankton, or microalgae, that is not new to the waters off the coast of New Engl more PR