Maine Science Podcast

Alicia Wilcox , who is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Thomas College . Alicia is a forensic scientist who both teaches at the college level and provides forensic science expertise in cases throughout the country.  Alicia has presented at the Maine Science Festival a few times, most notably setting up a crime scene investigation for festival goers. A note about this episode:  our con...

Angela Oechslie is the Program Director for Project>Login, a program of Educate Maine. Angela and I spoke about Project>Login - a statewide program focusing on IT and computer science.  Project>Login is a long-time partner of the Maine Science Festival, and they have been running the Maine Science Festival's Showcase Event Tech Night for years. I've known Angela for years, and was really happy to...

Presenting a bonus episode! Ben Sprague, host of the podcast The Maine Show , spoke with Dr. Jeremy Yardley, a pediatrician at Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center on December 23, 2020. Their conversation covered some of Jeremy's experience being a hospital physician in the time of Covid-19 and shows the ways that physicians and those in health care are deeply immersed in science practice. ...

Jessica Muhlin is an Associate Professor of Marine Biology in the Corning School of Ocean Studies at Maine Maritime Academy.  Jessie is an intertidal ecologist who's studies marine macro-algae - seaweed. Her research includes the reproductive ecology of fucoid algae (=rockweeds), nearshore food web dynamics, citizen science and art-science collaborations. Jessie has her own podcast, all about alga...

Michael Burman is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of New England.  Mike has studied learning, memory and emotion using behavioral neuroscience techniques and has recently become interested in how the brain’s memory systems and emotional regulation systems come to function and cooperate over the course of development. He currently investigating the long-term consequences of n...

Heather Hamlin is an Associate Professor of Marine Biology and Aquaculture, in the School of Marine Sciences at the University of Maine. Heather earned her BS in Biology, and an MS in Marine Bio-resources from the University of Maine before working as a Senior Biologist at Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota Florida. She earned her Ph. D. from the University of Florida in 2007, and then worked as a...

Ivan Fernandez is a Distinguished Maine Professor at the University of Maine, in the School of Forest Resources, Climate Change Institute, and School of Food and Agriculture. Ivan has served on various U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board committees in Washington DC since 2000, and has been involved in leading the Maine’s Climate Future assessments. In 2019 Ivan was appointe...

Sascha Deri is the CEO of bluShift Aerospace , and Seth Lockman is the Communications Director. Founded in 2014, bluShift Aerospace has designed a bio-derived rocket fuel and a modular hybrid rocket engine. Building on these technologies bluShift will create a family of launch systems, the largest of which can lift 30-kilogram payloads to low-Earth orbit. These new suborbital and orbital launch sy...

We have something a little different today: a conversation about the discovery of a new species of tardigrade, found in the Bangor City Forest. Tardigrades are microscopic animals, and are really remarkable creatures.  In this episode, I talk to Dr. Emma Perry and high school student Noelle Killarney - the team that discovered this species. Emma and Noelle would like listeners' help in naming the...

Brian Harris is co-founder and CEO of MedRythms , a digital therapeutics company focused on the intersection of music, neuroscience and technology.  Brian is a board-certified music therapist and one of 250 Neurologic Music Therapist Fellows in the world. He is the Chair of the Arts & Neuroscience group at the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine and sits on the Advisory Council of the Aca...

Sharon Klein is an Associate  Professor in the School of Economics at the University of Maine. Sharon's research and teaching are multi-disciplinary in nature, centering on the technical, economic, environmental and social trade-offs inherent in the production, distribution, and use of energy. With her research team, she has created a database of U.S. community-based renewable energy projects . Pr...

Patrick Breeding is a biotechnology entrepreneur who developed his interest for the blue economy working with Lobster Unlimited. He earned his B.S. in Biomedical Engineering in 2017 and recently completed his M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Maine.  Throughout college, Patrick became passionate about biotechnology research and commercialization in various fields, spanning drug...

Introducing the Maine Science Podcast - starting September 3, 2020.   The Maine Science Podcast is a production of the Maine Science Festival. It was recorded at Discovery Studios, Maine Discovery Museum, Bangor, ME. Edited and produced by Kate Dickerson; graphic design by Maranda Bouchard. The Discover Maine theme was composed and performed by Nick Parker.  Support provided by Maine Technology In...