Expeditions 2019 Archives - Climate Change Institute

Where the Westerly Wind Blows: A Field Season to the Falkland Islands

Expedition Dates: March – April 2019 Field Team Members: Brenda Hall1,2, Meghan Spoth1,2, Thomas Lowell3 1 Climate Change Institute, University of Maine 2 School of Earth and Climate Sciences, University of Maine 3 University of Cincinnati Expedition Funding: Churchill Exploration Fund, UMaine GSG Summary: The Southern Hemisphere Westerlies are an important component of […]

The Response of the Northern Flying Squirrel (Glaucomys Sabrinus) to Rising Ambient Temperatures, Aroostook State Park, Presque Isle, Maine

Expedition Dates: May 31 – August 11, 2019 Field Team Members: Elise K. Gudde1,2, Danielle L. Levesque1,2, Stephanie Ross3 1 School of Biology and Ecology, University of Maine, USA 2 Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, USA 3 Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Conservation Biology, University of Maine, USA Expedition Funding: UMS Research Reinvestment […]

Beyond the Holarctic comfort zone: Thermoregulation in a Sundaland Rodent

Expedition Dates: May 31 – August 11, 2019 Field Team Members: Ana M. Breit1,2, Tal Kleinhause-Goldman Gedalyahou3, Khairul Ikhwan4, Marcellinus Isaac Stia Dominic4, Andrew Alec Tuen4, Danielle L. Levesque 1,2 1 School of Biology and Ecology, University of Maine, USA 2 Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, USA 3 Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Conservation […]

Trails cut by the survey team around the monumental core of Tikin Ha.

Rediscovering the Ancient Maya City of Tikin Ha, Belize

Expedition Dates: February – March, 2019 Expedition Field Team Members: Field Team: Brett A. Houk1, Gregory Zaro2,3, Mark D. Willis4 1 – Texas Tech University – Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work 2 – University of Maine – Department of Anthropology 3 – University of Maine – Climate Change Institute 4 – Flinders University – […]

Chasing the Mammoth Steppe – Exploring the Past and Present of Megafauna in the Arctic

Expedition Dates: July 25th to August 26th, 2019 Expedition Field Team Members: Alessandro Mereghetti 1,2, Dr. Karen James 1, Dr. Albert Protopopov 3, Dr. Valeriy Plotnikov 3 1 University of Maine, Climate Change Institute 2 University of Maine, Ecology and Environmental Sciences Program 3 Academy of Science of the Republic of Sakha Expedition Funding: NSF CAREER […]

Creating the Midden Minders Citizen Science Program

Expedition Dates: Summer & Fall 2019; Summer & Fall 2018 Expedition Field Team Members: Alice Kelley1,2, Bonnie Newsom1,3, Arthur Spiess4 1 – University of Maine – Climate Change Institute 2 – University of Maine – School of Earth and Climate Sciences 3 – University of Maine – Department of Anthropology 4 – Maine Historic […]

Biogeography of the Grand Kankakee Marsh, Northern Indiana, U.S. over the past 5,000 Years

Expedition Dates: June 8 – June 20, 2019 Expedition Field Team Members: Katherine C. Glover, Climate Change Institute, University of Maine Jack Ferrara, Ecology and Environmental Science, University of Maine Meredith Helmick, Environmental Geosciences, Concord University Jennifer Philippe, Environmental Geosciences, Concord University Expedition Funding: National Geographic Society Early Career Grant Field Expedition Location: Grand Kankakee Marsh, […]

Iceland Lightweight Everest Drill Test

Expedition Dates: March 2019 Expedition Field Team Members: Daniel Dixon, Paul Mayewski, and Mariusz Potocki Field Expedition Location: Iceland Field testing of several lightweight shallow ice core drilling systems in order to develop the best option for the upcoming field expedition to Mt. Everest.

Arctic Futures Workshop – 2019

Expedition Dates: June 21 – 29th, 2019 University of Maine: Yong Chen, Lee Karp-Boss, Alice Kelley, Paul Mayewski, Peter Neill, Robert Northington, Neal Pettigrew, Erin Roche, Jasmine Saros, and Kristin Schild University of Southern Maine: Matthew Bampton, Firooza Pavri, Jan Piribeck, Vinton Valentine Maine Law School: Charles Norchi, Jeffrey Thaler Field Expedition Location: […]

Chasing the Ice in Greenland: How are Lakes Going to be Affected by Earlier Ice-Out?

Expedition Date: April 12 – June 3 & June 22 – July 10, 2019 Field Team Members: Vendy Hazukova1,2, Benjamin Burpee 1,2, Todd Burpee, Robert Northington3, and Jasmine Saros1,2 1 University of Maine – Climate Change Institute 2 University of Maine – School of Biology and Ecology 3 Husson University – College of Science and […]