Expeditions 2024

Digital Data Capture from the Ostra Collecting Site, Peru

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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Ground-Penetrating Radar Collection at Los Morteros, Chao, Peru

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 (Emiratis, 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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Snapshot of field team members.

Impacts of Changing Arctic Freshwater Resources on South Greenland Farm Water Use and Irrigation Systems

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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West Greenland Field Expedition (including Sisimiut, Disko, and Ilulissat)

Expedition Dates:  May 25 – June 06, 2024 Field Team Members: Dr. Paul Mayewski, Dr. Mariusz Potocki, Alex Kuli, Ligia Naveira, Cory Limberger From May 25th to June 06th, a field expedition in West Greenland was conducted aboard the sailing vessel ArcticEarth and the Climate Change Institute team. The expedition members, led by the Director […]

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Field team members in front of Kiattut Glacier.

Southwest Greenland Water Quality Expedition

Expedition Location: Southwest Greenland Expedition Dates: 06/08/2024 – 06/23/2024 Field Team Members: Cory Limberger, PhD Student, Climate Change Institute; Rachel Fischer, Maine Law School Graduate Student and Alex Drew, Maine Law School Graduate Student Funding Support: Mrs. Elisabeth Crowley I want to begin this report with gratitude and thanks to Mrs. Elisabeth Crowley for making […]

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Understanding the Impacts of Pleistocene Megaherbivores on Ecosystem Stability in Alaska

Expedition Location:  Kiana & Andy Lake, Alaska Expedition Dates:  March 31 – April 17, 2024   Field Team Members: *Alessandro Mereghetti1, Dr. Dulcinea V. Groff2, Joseph Boots-Ebenfield1, Kaitlyn Gerstler2, Shannon Thompson 1, Glenn Miller 1 University of Maine, Climate Change Institute             2 University of Wyoming Funding Support:  Dan & Betty Churchill Exploration Fund, NSF CAREER […]

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Group Photo on Cordillera Darwin

Determining Driving Mechanisms of the Last Ice-Age Termination in South America

Expedition Location:  Cordillera Darwin, Chile Expedition Dates:  March 1 – April 7, 2024 Field Team Members:  Sera Thomas (MS Student, UMaine), Meghan Spoth (Phd Student, UMaine), Maraina Miles (Phd Student, UMaine), Annika Schmidt (MS Student, Northwestern University), Dr. Rodrigo Sotores (Postdoc, University of Magallanes), Dr. Brenda Hall (Co-PI, UMaine), Dr. Thomas Lowell (Co-PI, University of […]

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