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The UAE Consensus – Misleading & Underachieving By Natalie Nowatzke, J.D. Candidate 2024, University of Maine School of Law December 13, 2023 As soon as I landed in Toronto, my…
2023 Expeditions
Co-creating research agendas toward a holistic, community-led terrestrial monitoring transect in West Greenland
Expedition Location: Sisimiut – Sarfannguit – Kangerlussuaq – Nuuk, West Greenland Expedition Dates: November 1 – 10, 2023 Field Team Members: Clay Prater (University of Arkansas), Vendy Hazukova (CCI, UMaine),…
Modern Plant Wax Calibration for Paleoclimate Reconstruction in the Sierra Nevada
Expedition Location: Inyo National Forest, California Expedition Dates: September 25-29, 2023 Field Team Members: Meghan Spoth (PhD Student, UMaine), Maraina Miles (PhD Student, UMaine) Funding Support: Dan & Betty Churchill…
Assessing temporal patterns and ecosystem consequences of biogeochemical change in glacially fed lakes in Western Norway
Expedition Location: Vestland, Norway Expedition Dates: August 29th 2023 – September 29th 2023 Field Team Members: Ansley Grider (MS Student, UMaine) Field Trip Leader, Jasmine Saros (Professor, UMaine) Funding Support:…
Developing a 10Be moraine chronology for late-glacial resurgence of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet in Lysefjord, southwestern Norway
Expedition Location: Lysefjord, southwestern Norway Expedition Dates: August 2023 Field Team Members: Tricia Hall Collins (PhD Student, UMaine) Field Trip Leader, Katie Westbrook (MS Student, UMaine), and Dr. Aaron Putnam…
Evaluating the Spatial Distribution and Continuity of Snow and Firn Stratigraphy
Expedition Location: Eclipse Icefield, Kluane National Park and Reserve, Yukon, Canada Expedition Dates: June 2023 Field Team Members: Renée Clavette (PhD Student, UMaine) Field Trip Leader, Inga Kindstedt (PhD Candidate,…
Pilot survey and selection of geoarchaeological records and metal-ore processing sites in the high elevation Svaneti region of the Caucasus for potential paleoclimate and macro-economic reconstructions from Ice Cores
Expedition Location: Svaneti, Georgia Expedition Dates: July 2023 Field Team Members: Lizi Gadrani 1,2*, Mikheil Elashvili3, Anca Dan4 1Climate Change Institute, University of Maine 2School of Earth and Climate Sciences,…
Constraining the Spatial Distribution of Snowpack Properties of the Kahiltna Glacier and Begguya Plateau in Denali National Park, Alaska, USA
Expedition Location: Denali National Park, Alaska Expedition Dates: June 8, 2023 – July 14, 2023 Field Team Members: Keegan Bellamy (MS Student, UMaine), Emma Erwin (PhD student, UMaine), Claire Bicknell…
Reconstructing the Paleotempestology Record from the Tibes Indigenous Ceremonial Center at Ponce, Puerto Rico
Expedition Location: Ponce, Puerto Rico Expedition Dates: June 12 – 18, 2023 Field Team Members: Karina M. Cortijo-Robles (Researcher), Elizabeth Leclerc (Research Assistant), and Mariana Z. Aguirre Rodriguez (Volunteer) Funding…
Constraining Snow and Firn Properties in Western Canada
Expedition Location: Kluane National Park and Reserve, Yukon, Canada Upper Seward Glacier Expedition Dates: May 12-23, 2023 Field Team Members: Mikaila Mannello (MS student, UMaine), Martin Truffer (University of Alaska…
Quantifying Rapidly Changing Tidewater Glacier-Fjord Systems in South Greenland
Expedition Location: Qalerallt Imaa, South Greenland Expedition Dates: June 11, 2023 – July 02, 2023 Field Team Members: Sydney Baratta, Kristin Schild, Lee Karp-Boss, Allie Berry Funding Support: The Robert and…
Climate Migration in Zimbabwe
Expedition Location: Harare, Zimbabwe Expedition Dates: Summer 2023 Field Team Members: Victoria Markiewicz, Dr. Nicholas Micinski Funding Support: The Robert and Judith Sturgis Family Foundation Background and Significance: The eastern region…
Understanding the Patterns and Mechanisms of Alder Shrub Expansion in Arctic Tundra using Dendrochronology and Very-High-Resolution UAS Remote Sensing
Expedition Location: Nome, Alaska Expedition Dates: July 8, 2023 – July 16, 2023 Field Team Members: Wouter Hantson, Daryl Yang Funding Support: The Robert and Judith Sturgis Family Foundation and…
Characterizing the Englacial Stratigraphy at the Bottom of the Denali Ice Core, Alaska
Expedition Location: Denali National Park, Alaska Expedition Dates: June 8, 2023 – July 14, 2023 Field Team Members: Emma Erwin (Phd Student, UMaine), Keegan Bellamy (MS student, UMaine), Claire Bicknell (BS student,…
Chasing carbon emissions from Arctic lakes in drier regions
Expedition Location: Kangerlussuaq, West Greenland Expedition Dates: March 30, 2023 – April 11, 2023 Participants: Vendy Hazukova, Amanda Gavin Funding Support: The Robert and Judith Sturgis Family Foundation and NSF DDRIG Background…