Expedition Location: Juneau Icefield, Juneau, Alaska Expedition Dates: Jun 29, 2025 to July 19, 2025 Field Team Members: Wyatt Stanley, Scott Braddock, Mathilde Børch, and Seth Campbell Funding Support: Dan and Betty Churchill Exploration Foundation, NSF CAREER grant (PI Campbell), and the University of Maine Graduate Student Government Background and Significance: Glaciers worldwide are melting […]
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Expedition Location: Qalerallit Imaat and Sermilik Fjord, South Greenland Expedition Dates: Jun 11 to 16, 2025 Field Team Members: Mathilde Børch, Kristin Schild, Lee Karp-Boss, Allie Berry, Kayla Guthrie, Miranda Seixas, Wyatt Stanley, and Seth Campbell Funding Support: The Robert and Judith Sturgis Family Foundation, and NSF SAUNNA NRT Background and Significance: Today, glaciers worldwide […]
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Expedition Location: Sogndal, Norway Expedition Dates: July 27, 2025 – August 8, 2025 Field Team Members: Miranda Seixas*, Kayla Guthrie, Misa Saros, Jacob Yde, Jasmine Saros Funding Support: The Robert and Judith Sturgis Family Foundation Exploration Fund Introduction: The cryosphere is anywhere on Earth where water is frozen, including ice sheets, ice caps, mountain glaciers, […]
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For nearly a decade, Amanda Gavin has studied and conserved lakes, including many in Maine, that provide drinking water and support agriculture. Today, she’s investigating what the future may hold for tens of thousands of crystalline blue lakes within an Arctic country experiencing rapid ecological change: Greenland. More frequent heat waves, drought, heavy rain and […]
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Expedition Location: Kangerlussuaq, West Greenland Expedition Dates: 06/30/2024-07/07/2024 Field Team Members: Dr. Jasmine Saros, Dr. Suzanne McGowan, Dr. Robert Northington, Dr. Adam Heathcote, Dr. Vaclava Hazukova, Thomas Grindle, Alex Saros, Misa Saros Funding Support: Dan and Betty Churchill Exploration Fund, NSF Grant #DGE-2021713 (Systems Approaches to Understanding and Navigating the New Arctic NRT) Introduction: Lake […]
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Expedition Location: Tierra del Fuego, Chile Expedition Dates: March 7-April 5, 2024 Field Team Members: Dr. Brenda Hall* (co-PI), Dr. Thomas Lowell* (co-PI), Dr. Rodrigo Soteres (Postdoc), Meghan Spoth (PhD student), Maraina Miles (PhD student), Sera Thomas (MS student), Annika Schmidt (MS student) Funding Support: Dan and Betty Churchill Exploration Fund Introduction How rapid was […]
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Baku, Azerbaijan, November 11th – 22nd, 2024. Over the next two weeks, members of the University of Maine and Maine Law delegation will be following key negotiation streams including discussions linked to a new global goal for annual investments in climate policy, carbon trading mechanisms, adaptation for Indigenous communities, and operationalizing the loss and damage fund. […]
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Grantee: Emily Blackwood (Ph.D. candidate, UMaine) Expedition Dates: July 12th – 27th, 2024 Field Team Members: Emily Blackwood (Ph.D. candidate, UMaine), Kelly Hoover (MSstudent, UMaine), Dan Sandweiss (Professor, UMaine), Alice Kelley (Associate ResearchProfessor, UMaine), Alan Gontz (Professor, Clarkson University), Cecilia Mauricio (Professor,Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú) Expedition Funding: Dan & Betty Churchill Exploration Fund Background […]
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Expedition Dates: July 16th, 2024 – July 25th, 2024Field Team Members: Kelly Hoover (MS student, Ph.D. student, UMaine), Allen Gontz(Professor, Clarkson University), Emily Blackwood (Ph.D. Candidate, UMaine), Dan Sandweiss(Professor, UMaine), Alice Kelley (Emerita, UMaine), Cecilia Mauricio (Pontificia UniversidadCatólica del Perú)Funding Support: Dan & Betty Churchill Exploration Fund Introduction:On the Northwest coast of Peru, spilling over […]
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Expedition Location: Qassiarsuk, Greenland Expedition Dates: June 16th 2024 – July 3rd 2024 Field Team Members: Kiley Daley (Postdoctoral Research Associate, UMaine), Erik Kielsen (Independent Researcher, Greenland), Amanda Gavin (PhD Student, UMaine), Thomas Grindle (PhD Student, UMaine) Funding Support: UMaine Flagship Postdoctoral Fellowship and the National Science Foundation Systems Approaches to Understanding and Navigating the […]
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