Expeditions

Kahiltna Glacier Alaska 2012 Exp

Seasonal Correlation of Air Temperature and Isotopic Composition of Snowfall in the Central Alaska Range

Kahiltna Glacier, Alaska 2012 Seasonal Correlation of Air Temperature and Isotopic Composition of Snowfall in the Central Alaska Range 2012 Field Team Members: Seth Campbell, Curtis Marston, Lyndsey Marston, Josh Plourde (University of Maine); Kristin Schild, Hazel Shapiro (Dartmouth College); Adam Toolanen (Lund University, Sweden) Location of Field Expedition:  Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska […]

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A Kinematic Survey of Khumbu Glacier, Nepal

Khumbu Glacier, Nepal A Kinematic Survey of Khumbu Glacier, Nepal: A contribution to the study of how global warming affects glaciers in the Himalaya and the consequences for massive populations in Asia Field Members: Adam Barker (University of Washington, PhD Candidate) and Lauren Wheeler (University of Maine, Master’s student) Funding: This project is funded by […]

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Maya Obsidian Belize Exp 2012

Maya Obsidian of the Three Rivers region, Belize

Maya Obsidian of the Three Rivers region, Belize May 17th, 2012 to  June 14th, 2012 CCI Participant: Walter Beckwith Funding Support: Dan and Betty Churchill Fund, Programme for Belize Archaeological Project.   The Ancient Maya of southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and Honduras represent one of the most complex and sophisticated pre-Columbian societies in the Americas. For […]

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Beartooth Mountains, Montana 2012

Beartooth Mountains, Montana 2012 Nitrogen Subsidies in Glacial Meltwater: Implications for High Elevation Aquatic Chains Beartooth Mountains, Montana – 2012 Field Team Members: Kate Warner, Jasmine Saros, Carl Tuggend, Katie Norris and Jenny Shrum Dates:  July 18th  – August 8th 2012 Funding for this project was generously provided by the Dan and Betty Churchill Exploration […]

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Los Morteros, Chao Valley, Peru 2012

Los Morteros, Chao Valley, Peru 2012 Geoarchaeological Explorations of an Early Mound, North Coast of Peru   Research Report Submitted to the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine as a requirement for the Dan and Betty Churchill Exploration Fund December, 2012   Introduction Los Morteros is a mound-shaped archaeological site located on the […]

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Kuli South Georgia Exp 2012

Kuli South Georgia Expediton

Researchers with UMaine’s Climate Change Institute will be blogging while on a trip to South Georgia Island in the South Atlantic Ocean. The expedition members are Climate Change Institute Director Paul Mayewski, UMaine graduate students Bjorn Grigholm and Mariusz Potocki, UMaine postdoctoral researcher Dan Dixon, Chilean researchers Gino Casassa and Marcelo Arevalo, EMT medic Alex […]

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Roosevelt Island Climate Evolution (RICE)

Roosevelt Island Climate Evolution (RICE) Introduction RICE is an international collaboration between New Zealand, USA, Denmark, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, Italy, China, and Sweden. The aim of the project is to recover a 750 m deep ice core from Roosevelt Island in Antarctica to determine the stability of the Ross Ice Shelf and West Antarctica […]

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Glacier History of New Zealand Southern Alps from LGM to present

Glacier History of New Zealand Southern Alps from LGM to present Field Team Members: George H. Denton, Aaron E. Putnam, Tobias N.B. Koffman (Ph.D. candidate), Peter D. Strand (M.S. candidate) Collaborators: Dr. Joerg M. Schaefer (Columbia University), Dr. Michael R. Kaplan (Columbia University), David J.A. Barrell (GNS Science), Dr. Brian M. Anderson (Victoria University of […]

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Tidal Marsh Bird Studies Across the Northeastern U.S.

Tidal Marsh Bird Studies Across the Northeastern U.S., 2013 Field Team Members: Mo Correll, Kate Ruskin, Brian Olsen, Tom Hodgman Field Location: Maine to Virginia, with intensive demographic study in Scarborough Marsh, ME Dates: May-September 2013 Funding Support: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Science Foundation, Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, University of […]

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