Climate Change Institute

Understanding Paleo-Climate, Modern Climate, and Glacier Dynamics in Western Canada: Field Report from Eclipse Ice Field Field Team Members:  Karl Kreutz, Seth Campbell, Will Kochtitzky, Brittany Main (University of Ottawa PhD candidate), and Leslie Sobel (Artist) May 2017 Introduction to Research Project at Eclipse Ice Field:  Our research objectives at Eclipse Ice Field are broad including […]

Mt. Logan, St. Elias Range, Yukon, Canada Field Team: Aaron Chesler1,2, Karl Kreutz1,2, Seth Campbell2,3, Adam Toolanen4 1 Climate Change Institute, 2 School of Earth and Climate Sciences, University of Maine Orono, 3 University of Washington, 4 Field Assistant May – June 2017   Project Rational Each Pacific El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) event has globally reaching effects (Rodriguez-Fonseca et al., 2016 […]

Southwest Greenland Ice Core Expedition: Recovery of Interglacial Ice Record Kangerlussuaq, Greenland Field Team Members: Andrei Kurbatov, Elena Korotkikh, Mike Handley, Heather Clifford June 21- 29, 2017 During late June 2017, members of the Climate Change Institute (CCI) traveled to the city of Kangerlussaq in Greenland to retrieve ice that resembles the last interglacial. The […]

Churchill Exploration Grant Report 2018 K.R. Miner,ab C. Gerbi,a S. Campbell,ac A. Liljedahl,d T. Anderson,e B.L. Perkins,f K. Kreutz ab a.  School of Earth and Climate Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469 USA b.  Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469 USA c.   Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 d.   Water and Environmental Research Center (WERC), University […]

What Dung Fungus Can Tell Us About the Peopling of the Americas and Extinction of Pleistocene Megafauna Field Team Members:  Catherine Hamley (University of Maine), Gerad Smith (University of Alaska Fairbanks), Dominic Tullo (University of Nevada, Reno), Kathryn Krasinski (Adelphi University) and Brian Wygal (Adelphi University) Expedition Dates:  June 10 – July 20, 2017 Funding Support: NSF Graduate […]

Low-Frequency GPR Measurements at Taku Glacier, Alaska Field Team: Lynn Kaluzienski, Kiya Riverman, Lucas Beem and the following Juneau Icefield Research Program students:Brogen Kellerman, Theresa Westhaver, Daniel Otto, Avery Stewart, Amy Towell, Kyle Stewart, and Lois Anderson June – July 2017Funding Acknowledgment:  Dan & Betty Churchill Exploration Fund   Project Objectives: The overarching goal of […]

Nicaragua’s Climate Change Adaptation Landscape 2017 Churchill Exploration Fund Trip Report July 25- August 11, 2017 Anna McGinn, Climate Change Institute and School for Policy and International Affairs, University of Maine Adeline Schneider, Undergraduate College of Liberal Arts and Science ’17, University of Maine Lindsey Stum, Dickinson College ’14, Spanish translator This research trip served […]

Beartooth Mountains 2017 UNDERSTANDING AULACOSEIRA ECOLOGY TO REALIZE THE LENTIC RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE Journey to Beartooth Mountains, south central Montana – northwest Wyoming July 5 – August 2, 2017 Field Team: Edna Pedraza Garzón and Benjamin Burpee Background Alpine lakes are considered ideal sensors of climate due to the distinctive and accurate response of […]

Paleoecology of Plant Communities around Treeline at Maine’s Oldest Pond Acadia National Park 2017 Field Team Members: Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie, Jacquelyn Gill, Katherine Glover, Ben Burpee, Abe Miller-Rushing (Acadia National Park) Research Location: Acadia National Park September 26-30, 2017 Funding Support: David H. Smith Fellowship Sargent Mountain Pond in Acadia National Park has the distinction […]

The Westwind II Expedition: South Georgia 2017 Field Science Team Members: Mariusz Potocki, Charles Rodda, – Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, USA; Jone Mungia – Universidad de Magallanes, Punta Arenas, Chile; Skip Novak – Pelagic Australis, Cape Town, South Africa   On October 2017, two CCI graduate student researchers, Charles Rodda and Marius (Mario) Potocki, and a […]