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Stratigraphic Exploration of the Paleo-embayment of Pampa de las Salinas Research Report Submitted to the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine as a requirement for the Dan and Betty Churchill Exploration Fund Ana Cecilia Mauricio Introduction Los Morteros is a pre-pottery archaeological site located on the lower Chao Valley, north coast of Peru […]

Isotopic Signature of an Atmospheric River Event- Denali National Park, Alaska Field Team Members: Karl Kreutz, Seth Campbell, Abigail Bradford May 14, 2014 – May 30, 2014 Background On January 23, 2014 the Alaska Range experienced heavy rains from an atmospheric river event originating in the Pacific Ocean, east of the Hawaiian Islands (NCDC, 2014). […]

Changing Microbial Ecologies in Southwest Greenland Arctic Lakes Field Team Members: Benjamin Burpee, Jasmine Saros, Robert Northington, Hamish Greig, and Rachel Dicker Dates: May 27th – June 30th 2014 Kangerlussuaq, Greenland (67°00′31″N 50°41′21″W, Figure 1) is located just above the Arctic Circle on the widest margin of land surrounding the Greenland Ice Sheet (Figure 2). Permafrost in […]

Exploring Stakeholder Needs for Coastal Research in a Rapidly Changing Arctic Field Team Members: Mo Correll1,2, Philip Martin2, Flora Rexford3 1The University of Maine, 2The Arctic Landscape Conservation Cooperative, 3The Arctic Borderlands Ecological Knowledge Society Field Location: Beaufort Sea coast, AK Dates: May-September 2014 Funding Support: A2C2 NSF IGERT program, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, University of […]

Effects of Changing Snowpack on Alpine Lakes in the Rocky Mountains Field Team Members: Erin Hayes-Pontius, Kate Warner, and Rachel Dicker Dates: July 5 – July 23, 2014 Funding Support: Dan and Betty Churchill Fund Location: Beartooth Mountains   Background Alpine lake ecosystems have a short ice-off season, which means that even small changes in […]

Determining North Atlantic Hydrographic Variability near the Faroe Islands and the Viking Bank using Arctica Islandica Shells Field Team Members: Nina Whitney1, Carin Andersson Dahl2,3, Paul Butler2,4, Bernd Shone2,5, Rob Witbaard2,6 Ariadna Purroy Albet2,7, Stella Alexandroff2,4, Irene Ballesta Artero2,6, Fabian Bonitz2,3, Amy Featherstone2,8, Juan Estrella Martinez2,4, Stefania Milano2,5, Maria Pyrina2,9, Tamara Trofimova2,3, Liqiang Zhao2,5, Alejandro Roman Gonzalez10 […]

2014 Expedition in the Falkland Islands: Fossil, Peat and Sediment Collections December 4 – December 22, 2014 Team members: Dulcinea Groff*, Kit Hamley, and Dr. Jacquelyn Gill *corresponding author Background: The main goal of our expedition was to collect sediment records from the Falkland Islands. We collected the peat and sediment records because they contain […]

History of Grounded Ice in the Ross Embayment since the Last Glacial Maximum Using the Glacial Geology Alongside the Hatherton and Darwin Glacier system, Antarctica Field Team Members: Courtney King1,2, Dr. Brenda Hall1,2, Trevor Hillebrand3, and Dr. John Stone31Climate Change Institute, University of Maine; 2Department of Earth and Climate Sciences, University of Maine; 3Earth and Space Sciences […]