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 […]
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Sunshine (finally) in the Arctic: Exploring Greenland’s Crevasses at Raven Camp Field Team Members: Jessica Scheick and Stephanie Mills Location: Greenland Dates: 2-5 August 2014 This trip marks the continuation of an investigation by graduate student Jessica Scheick and advisor Gordon Hamilton of the cause of several cracks that appeared across the Raven Skiway (a […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Effects of Nitrogen on Lake Ecosystems in Patagonia Northern Patagonia January 2015 Field Team: Jasmine Saros & Benjamin Burpee Funding Source: NSF ADVANCE Grant – Rising Tide Center, University of Maine In recent years, new discoveries about nitrogen dynamics in the Northern Hemisphere have revealed that remote lakes record ecosystem effects of nitrogen pollution starting […]
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A Beryllium-10 Chronology of the former Pukaki Glacier, New Zealand: Uncovering the Structure of the Last Termination Field Team Members: Courtney King1,2, Colin Dowey1,2, Dr. George Denton1,2, Dr. Aaron Putnam3, and David Barrell4 1. Climate Change Institute, University of Maine; 2. Department of Earth and Climate Sciences, University of Maine; 3. Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University; 4.GNS Science, New Zealand January […]
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The Cathedral Glacier: A Disappearing Cirque Glacier in Northern British Columbia Field team members: Ben Partan (1), Scott McGee (2), Bjorn Dulleck (3) 1) Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, Orono, Maine 2) United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Anchorage, Alaska 3) Department of Geoinformation Science, Beuth Hochschule für Technik Berlin, Berlin, Germany June 26 […]
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Urban Development and Landscape Change at the Nadin Archeological Site, Croatia May 2015 – June 2015 Field Team Members: Marissa Bovie, Dr. Gregory Zaro Funding Support: Churchill Exploration Fund Background: The purpose of this expedition was to investigate the process of urbanization at the archaeological site of Nadin, Croatia. Nadin is located near the 3,000 year […]
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A Beryllium-10 Chronology of the Last Glacial Termination in the Mongolian Altai Mongolian Altai, Mongolia June 15 – July 25, 2015 Field team members: Dr. Aaron Putnam (University of Maine and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory) Peter Strand (University of Maine) Dr. David Putnam (University of Maine Presque Isle) Caleb Ward (University of Maine Presque Isle) Sarah Kramer (Medill School of Journalism) […]
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