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Covid-19_Umaine News_Fewer Frogs Died By Vehicles In The Outset Of The Pandemic, Study Finds, University Of Maine Division Of Marketing And Communications

Division of Marketing & Communications

Screenshot of UMaine News press release regarding the fact that fewer frogs died from vehicle collisions in spring 2020, when the COVI0-19 pandemic began, than during the season in other recent years, according to a new study led by Greg Leclair, a University of Maine graduate student and community science project coordinator.

Influence Of The Covid-19 Pandemic On Amphibian Road Mortality, Gregory Leclair, Matthew H. Chatfield, Zachary Wood, Jeffrey Parmelee, Cheryle A. Frederick

Teaching, Learning & Research Documents

The COVID-19 pandemic and its related human activity shutdowns provide unique opportunities for biodiversity monitoring through what has been termed the “anthropause” or the “great human confinement experiment.” The pandemic caused immense disruption to human activity in the northeastern United States in the spring of 2020, with notable reductions in traffic levels. These shutdowns coincided with the seasonal migration of adult amphibians, which are typically subject to intense vehicle-impact mortality. Using data collected as part of an annual community science monitoring program in Maine from 2018 to 2021, we examined how amphibian mortality probabilities responded to reductions in traffic during …

College Of Natural Sciences, Forestry, And Agriculture_Bio 431 Emerging Infectious Diseases Covid-19 Response Email, Allison Gardner

College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture

Email from Allison Gardner, Assistant Professor, School of Biology and Ecology, University of Maine to the Provost Office regarding Professor Gardner's teaching BIO 431 Emerging Infectious Diseases in the Spring 2020 Semester and the incorporation of updates and discussion of COVID-19 into the course. Also, includes submission of interest in teaching a course on the COVID-19 pandemic in Spring 2022.

Wildlife, Fisheries, & Conservation Biology_Draft Recommendations For Field Work During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Brian J. Olsen

School of Biology & Ecology

Draft copy of recommendations for field work during the COVID-19 pandemic, authored by Brian J. Olsen, Chair, Department of Wildlife, Fisheries & Conservation Biology, Interim Director of the Ecology and Environmental Sciences Program, and Associate Professor of Ornithology. In developing the recommendations Professor Olsen queried 100 University of Maine faculty members who conduct field research and collected comments from over two dozen.

The guidelines were sent for review to Frederick Servello, Dean of the University of Maine College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture, and Director of the Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station, Christopher Gerbi, Associate Dean for Research …

Wildlife, Fisheries, & Conservation Biology_Ecology And Environmental Sciences Program_Covid-19 News, Brian J. Olsen

School of Biology & Ecology

Email from Brian J. Olsen, Chair, Department of Wildlife, Fisheries & Conservation Biology, Interim Director of the Ecology and Environmental Sciences Program, and Associate Professor of Ornithology, University of Maine to students in the Ecology and Environmental Sciences Program (EES) with updates and information regarding the Program in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.