Climate Change Institute
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Molly Schauffler
Assistant Research Professor, School of Earth & Climate Sciences
Contact Information
Phone:
(207) 581-2707
Email/web:
mschauff@maine.edu
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Address:
Climate Change Institute
316 Bryand Global Sciences Bldg.
Orono, ME
04469
Research interests
Currently I conduct education research in overlapping areas of environmental science and mathematics education. I am particularly interested in understanding how middle and high school students (and teachers) work with data (the math part) to understand how environments are changing. What do students do when given a tabular data set? How do they think about variability? How do they decide how to summarize a data set, or which measure of center to use? How do students interpret time series data or a scatterplot showing correlation? How can teachers incorporate real data into science teaching so that students are motivated to investigate and understand the changes that are taking place around them?
Publications
- Schauffler, M., S. Vidito, S., Johnson, K., G. L. Jacobson, Jr., J. S. Kahl, 2005. Paleoecological history of forest disturbance in two upland watersheds in Acadia National Park. Chapter in Establishing paired gauged watersheds at Acadia National Park for long-term research on acidic deposition, nitrogen saturation, forest health, and mercury biogeochemistry (1998-2002), J. S. Kahl et al., Eds.
- Davis, R. B., D. S. Anderson, S. S. Dixit, M. Schauffler, P. G. Appleby, 2005. Responses of two New Hampshire (USA) lakes to human impacts in recent centuries. Journal of Paleolimnology, in press.
- Lindbladh, M., G. L. Jacobson, Jr., M. Schauffler 2003. The postglacial history of three Picea species in New England, USA. Quaternary Research
- Schauffler, M. and G. L. Jacobson Jr., 2002. Persistence of coastal spruce refugia during the Holocene in northern New England, USA, detected by stand-scale pollen stratigraphies, Journal of Ecology 90: 235-250.
- Schauffler, M., G. L. Jacobson, Jr., S. A. Norton, A. L. Pugh IV. 1996. Capture of road-salt aerosols in an acidic peatland in central Maine. Ecological Applications 6: 263.
Service
Community Service
- 2005 — Board of Directors, Belfast Bay Watershed Coalition
- 2010 — Maine Community Foundation - Waldo Co Fund
- 2010 — Penobscot Bay STEM Teachers Collaborative
Grants
- 2008 to 2011 — $224,970.00 — Connecting Climate to Curriculum from Maine Dept. of Education - MSP
- 2009 — $2,000.00 — Climate change education outreach from Sophron Foundation
- 2010 to 2013 — $224,846.00 — Data Literacy from Maine Dept. of Education- MSP
Education
Ph.D. Plant Science, University of Maine; MS Botany, University of Maine; BS Botany, University of Massachusetts (Amherst)Are you Molly Schauffler? If so, log in to edit your profile.
News &Events
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April 25, 2013
CLIMATE CHANGE SCIENCE DAY
Announcing the 6th Annual Climate Change Science Day at the University of Maine on May 2, 2013. This open house will include tours and demonstrations aimed at high school students and will feature... | Read more... -
April 24, 2013
Mayewski - Honorary Member of American Polar Society
Dr. Paul Mayewski was made Honorary Member of the American Polar Society after delivering the keynote address at the American Polar Society 75th Anniversary Celebration at Woods Hole, Mass. ... | Read more... -
April 24, 2013
Denton Among Winners of Phi Beta Kappa Book Award in Science
Professor George Denton of the Climate Change Institute, and co-authors Philip Conkling, Richard Alley and Wallace Broecker are recipients of the Phi Beta Kappa Book Award in Science for “The... | Read more...
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April 8, 2013
Penobscot Bay Pilot Reports on UMaine Climate Change Researchers Alaska Trip - Karl Kreutz
The Penobscot Bay Pilot wrote an article about the upcoming trip to Alaska by University of Maine climate change researchers to collect an ice core record of Arctic climate change over the past... | Read more... -
March 29, 2013
Island life - Studying prehistoric fish and animal bones to help understand their roles in a food chain altered by climate change - Catherine West
Catherine West was a junior history major at Bryn Mawr when she jumped at the chance to be a field school student during a 1998 dig at a prehistoric Aleut site on Unalaska Island. As part of that... | Read more... -
March 28, 2013
Variations in snow and firn chemistry along US ITASE traverses and the effect of surface glazing. The Cryosphere, 7, 2, 515-535. doi:10.5194/tc-7-515-2013. - Dixon/Mayewski et al.
This study provides a baseline from which changes in the chemistry of the atmosphere over Antarctica can be monitored under expected warming scenarios and continued intensification of industrial... | Read more...
