Climate Change Institute

Rocky Mountains – 2007 & 2008 Mapping Critical Loads of Atmospheric N and S deposition in the Rocky Mountains Jasmine Saros, Heather Arnett Critical Loads are the amount of deposition of a given pollutant that an ecosystem can receive below which ecological effects are thought not to occur.  In the proposed study, maps will be […]

Collaborative Research: Grounding-line retreat in the southern Ross Sea – constraints from Scott Glacier Brenda Hall, Gordon Bromley, Nate Nietkiewicz December 2007 – January 2008; December 2008 – January  2009 We are investigating late Pleistocene and Holocene changes in Scott Glacier, a key outlet glacier that flows directly into the Ross Sea just west of […]

Beartooth Mountains, Glacier National Park Climate-Induced Shifts in Alpine Diatom Communities: Linking Neoecological and Paleoecological Approaches to Incorporate Responses to Trophic Forcing Jasmine Saros, Andrea Nurse Field assistants from CCI: Carmen Daggett, Courtney Wigdahl, Randall Perry July 2007, August 2007, August 2008, July 2009 Diatom fossils from lake sediments in the central and northern Rocky […]

2007 – 2008 US ITASE Field Report Paul Andrew Mayewski, Gordon Hamilton (University of Maine) Brian Welch (St. Olaf College) Introduction: US ITASE is foremost a scientific endeavor that seeks to collect the highest quality scientific data under the safest and most efficient conditions possible.  It has been operating successfully as a traverse platform since […]

Archaeological Exploration of the Cotahuasi Highlands, Southern Peru Kurt Rademaker (CCI), David Reid (Anthropology Dept.) Project setup.  Kurt writes: Before Dave and I can even think about the canyon survey itself, we have to deal with some serious logistical issues.  We are setting out to spend three weeks backpacking and documenting archaeological sites within a […]

Glacial History and Paleoclimate in Patagonia (Southern South America) during the LGM and Termination of the Last Glacial Cycle Juan Luis Garcia, Climate Change Institute Patagonia is an amazing natural region located in the southern cone of South America. Although the Southern Andes are deprived of those tremendous five or six thousand m a.s.l. peaks […]

Beartooth Mountains – Wyoming/Montana The Interactive Effects of Ultraviolet Radiation & Temperature on Pelagic Food Webs Jasmine Saros, Courtney Wigdahl July 2007, August 2007 The objective of this research is to understand how temperature and colored dissolved organic matter (CDOM) influence the impact of UV on food webs in lakes. We argue that climate change […]

A joint Brazilian-Chilean-USA expedition at Detroit Plateau Antarctic Peninsula Glaciological and Atmospheric Studies This field work is part of CASA English Climate of the Antarctic and South America (CASA): Joint Brazilian-Chilean-US ice core drilling on the Detroit Plateau, Antarctic Peninsula Español Clima de Antártica y Sud-América (CASA) Extracción conjunta Brasil-Chile-Estados Unidos de testigo de hielo […]

Archaeological Exploration of the Cotahuasi Highlands, Southern Peru Kurt Rademaker (CCI), David Reid (Anthropology Dept.) This month’s field expedition is the latest installment in an ongoing interdisciplinary research program involving a team of senior scientists, graduate and undergraduate students from the University of Maine and collaborating academic institutions in the United States and Peru.  The […]