Climate Change Institute

Expedition Date: July-August 2019 Field Team Members:  Aaron Putnam, Peter Strand, Patricia Joyner (UMaine) Expedition Funding Acknowledgement: National Science Foundation; Comer Family Foundation By Stephanie Fox Editor’s note: This article was produced in partnership with Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications. After sloshing through a soggy swampland, two glacial geologists, a […]

Expedition Date: August 9 – August 19, 2019 Field Team Members: Joseph Mohan (CCI), Dan Engstrom & Mark Edlund  (St Croix Watershed Research Station) Expedition Funding Acknowledgement: National Park Service PMIS #160929 Expedition Report:  Multiple lines of evidence suggest that wilderness boreal lakes are rapidly changing, with unprecedented appearances of potentially toxic cyanobacterial blooms, the […]

An Awful and Wonderful Place: Journey to the South Sandwiches Expedition Dates: December 2020 – Feb 2021 Field Team: Paul Mayewski, Mariusz Potocki University of Maine – Climate Change Institute Penguin News, February 7, 2020 PENGUIN News caught up with Pelagic Expeditions’ Skip Novak and three members of the multi-disciplinary scientific expedition that recently spent […]

Expedition Dates – 1 April-3 June 2019 Field Team: Paul Mayewski, Aaron Putnam, Mariusz Potocki, Heather Clifford, Peter Strand, Laura Mattas University of Maine – Climate Change Institute   Photo by Dirk Collins, National Geographic. June 13, 2019 Research Highlights An international team of scientists, climbers and storytellers, led by the National Geographic Society and […]

  Expedition Dates – October 10 – December 18, 2019 Field Team: Frankie St. Amand (UMaine IPhD, CCI)   Expedition Funding Acknowledgement – Dan & Betty Churchill Exploration Fund, Phi Kappa Phi Love of Learning Award, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program   Research Background: El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a complex climatic phenomenon that […]

  Expedition Dates – September 22nd-October 8th, 2019 Field Team: Scott Braddock1,2, Kristin Schild1,2, Raul Pereda3, Felidor Paredes3, Fernando Iglesias Letelier4 1 – University of Maine – Climate Change Institute 2 – University of Maine – School of Earth and Climate Sciences 3 – CONAF –Department of Protected Areas 4 – Round River Conservation Studies […]

Expedition Dates: January – March, 2019 Field Team Members: Scott Braddock1,2, Meghan Spoth1,2 Climate Change Institute, 2. School of Earth and Climate Science – University of Maine Expedition Funding: National Science Foundation award: PLR-1738989   Summary: Accelerated ice retreat in recent decades for Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet has […]