News
End of Spring 2024 party!
May 4, 2024
Sandesh presented at the 2024 BioME student chowcase! Great job!
Sandesh also wins the BioME graduate student seed grant!
April. 27, 2024
Sara wins third place in the Imaging Your Research: A Photo Contest. Congrats!
April. 10, 2024
Recognition of our research efforts by the ELH (College of Earth, Life, and Health Sciences).
Mar. 28, 2024
Our lab attended and presented at the 2024 Wild Blueberry Conference
Feb. 17, 2024
Our lab attended and presented at the 2023 PDC Forum
Aug 23 to Aug 24, 2023
Success! The CCM1 (first climate change and mitigation) Summer camp at UMFK
June 27 to July 3, 2023
Congrats to everyone who graduated during the Pandemic!
May 30, 2023
Congrats to Dr. Oluwafemi Alaba
May 5, 2023
Bean receives the 2023 CUGR summer fellowships, Congrats!
Is the Biochar Boom Upon Us?
Our study on biochar reported by Ambrook Research
Jan 4, 2023
Wyman's Fellowship Program Call for Applications
The University of Maine is offering two funded assistantships for Master’s level graduate students, starting in May or August 2023. One student will be based with the Agroecology Lab in the School of Food and Agriculture, and work under the supervision of Dr. Rachel Schattman. The other will be based in the Plant Physiology Lab in the School of Biology and Ecology, and will work under the supervision of Dr. Yongjiang Zhang. The successful candidates will be the first members of a new Fellowship program sponsored by Wyman’s. This is an excellent opportunity to work closely with an industry leader on issues related to sustainability in a changing climate. Summer work will be split between research duties and working directly with the Wyman’s agroecology team. One fellow will work on the carbon stock of wild blueberry production systems, and the other will work on using nanomaterials to protect wild blueberries from frost damage.
Interested applicants should submit pre-application materials using this link: https://forms.gle/FB26cpAM6wnQWHN98. You will be asked to upload a cover letter, C.V., and unofficial transcripts. The deadline for applications is January 31, 2023. Interviews with competitive candidates will take place in February, 2023. Please contact Dr. Schattman (rachel.schattman@maine.edu) or Dr. Zhang (yongjiang.zhang@maine.edu) with any questions.
Dec. 20, 2022
Our new discovery: Reversible xylem conduit collapse is a common feature in vascular plants
Our new paper on reversible xylem collapse is now published in New Phytologist
October 28, 2022
Ava and Izzy receive the 2022 CUGR Academic Year Fellowships, Congrats!
Oct. 2022
Welcome to submit to our Special Issue on Water Management in Water
Message from the Editor-in-Chief: In the context of global changes, the sustainable management of water cycles, going from global and regional water cycles to urban, industrial and agricultural water cycles, plays a very important role on the water resources and on their relationships with food, energy, biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and human health. Water invites authors to provide innovative original full articles, critical reviews and timely short communications and to propose special issues devoted to new technological and scientific domains and to interdisciplinary approaches of the water cycles. We ensure a critical review process and a quick turnaround between submission and final decision. Sep. 9, 2022
Special Issue Homepage; Deadline for submission: May 10, 2023
UMaine News and Bangor Daily News Report PhD Candidate Rafa Tasnim
Rafa Tasnim: Safeguarding Maine wild blueberries from climate change (UMaine News)
August 2, 2022
SWEET SCIENCE: Downeast Magazine shares our story on wild blueberries
Media reports on our research about nanocellulose and wild blueberries
The Bangor Daily News, Morning Ag Clips, Phys.org and News Center Maine reported on our study showing that nanocellulose may help increase the yield from wild blueberry plants when used with liquid fertilizer applied to leaves. Egreenews shared the BDN report. UK Today News shared the Phys.org report.
July. 11, 2022
Ground-Breaking: A NEW research center at UMaine for WILD BLUEBERRIES
Media advances our study about wild blueberry field warming
News Center Maine, Scienmag, Phys.org, the Bangor Daily News, The Piscataquis Observer, Morning Ag Clips, the Environmental News Network and other national outlets reported on our research showing that the location, season and the time of day influence how fast temperatures are rising at Maine wild blueberry fields due to climate change.
June. 23, 2022
Celebration of Excellence
Kallol receives the SBE 2022 Hylland/Hillborn Award for Outstanding Plant Research, and Rafa wins the NSFA Doctoral Graduate Research Excellence Award. Congratulations!
April. 20, 2022
UMaine News and Media reported our study on drought patterns in Maine wild blueberry fields
Research shows importance of proper soil moisture for wild blueberries
The Bangor Daily News, Lincoln County News, Phys.org and Gamers Grade shared the story.
Feb. 15, 2022
Our climate change study featured in Science Friday
How Climate Change Is Giving Maine’s Wild Blueberries The Blues
Wild Blueberries are NOT a Crop with Low Photosynthetic Capacity
UMaine News on Our collaborative work on Using Remote Sensing to Measure Water Stress in Wild blueberry fields
Imaging spectroscopy can predict water stress wild blueberry fields, UMaine-led study reveals
Our collaborative work on the Impact of changing rainfall patterns on strawberries in the news
Our research on climate change patterns of wild blueberry fields in the news:
Bangor Daily News-Maine’s blueberry barrens are warming faster than the rest of the state
Associated Press, Maine Public, Maine Biz, Penbay Pilot, ABC News, InHabitat, TRIB Live, the Washington Post, The Seattle Times, WGN (Radio 720 in Chicago), The News & Observer, U.S. News and World Report, the Santa Fe New Mexican, the San Diego Union Tribune, the Miami Herald, the Charlotte Observer, The Sacramento Bee, the Times Union, The Post Register, The Journal Gazette, Wyoming News, Morning Ag Clips, the Bangor Daily News and the Portland Press Herald shared the AP story. WVII (Channel 7), VOA Learning English and The Southern Illinoisan also reported on the study.
Pratima receives the GSG Outstanding Graduate Student Award and the SBE 2021 Hylland/Hillborn Award for Outstanding Plant Research, Congrats!
Seeking FIVE Undergrads for 2021 UMS IURC Biochar Project Summer Research & Intern Opportunities May 25th to August 27th, 2021 (Click to the Application Site)
Sam and Aldous receive the 2021 CUGR Summer MSGC Research Experience Awards, Congrats!
Emma and Marlys receive the 2020 CUGR summer fellowships, Congrats!
Our first spaceship project paper published: The future of wild blueberries: Testing warming impacts using open-top chambers
Photographs published in SPIRE: Four Seasons of the Wild Blueberry Land in Maine
Cool season (still hot) field work with collaborators @ a tropical forest in Thailand (2019 winter)
Thanksgiving party 2019
Thanksgiving party 2019 cont.
Year end 2019 group photo