Cooperative Extension: Follow a Researcher®

Welcome to 4-H Follow a Researcher™ at the University of Maine! During the expedition, we will be posting a new video and write-up at the beginning of each week. These materials are meant to provide you with more information about our researcher and how he or she engages in practices common to all scientists and […]

Located 300 miles off the southeastern coast of South America, the Falklands are home to some of the world’s largest penguin, seal, and sea bird colonies. The islands were also once home to an extinct species of fox called the warrah. How and when did the warrah reach the Falklands? Follow Kit Hamley, Masters student, […]

If you’ve ever been on a camping trip, you know how much planning and preparation are involved. You might have experienced a time when you brought too much, or even worse, forgot something important. These oversights can impact your goals for the trip by affecting how you will accomplish them, and whether or not they […]

What do you mean, “models?” In this episode, Charles discusses the scientific practice of developing and using models in science. No…not fashion models, though the concept is similar. While fashion models act as representations of what clothes and cosmetics might look like on the rest of us, models in science are also used to represent […]

What does it mean to be a scientist? You might be asking yourself, “What does the work of scientists and engineers look like, and what do they do?” What if I told you that simply by asking this question, you are acting like a scientist? Throughout our journey, we will be getting more familiar with […]

Meet Charles Rodda and Kit Hamley, two University of Maine students conducting a research expedition to the high Andes Mountains of Peru. Charles is a glacial climatologist who has studied the climate conditions during the past collision of North America and Europe (around 400 million years ago) through both computer models and fieldwork in New […]