Climate Change Institute

Northern Great Plains – North Dakota The Role of Dissolved Organic Material in Regulating Primary Production in Prairie Saline Lakes Jasmine Saros, Courtney Wigdahl, Carmen Daggett August 2006, May 2009 Lake ecosystems are often defined in terms of a trophic paradigm, in which lake productivity is considered a direct function of nutrient loading. This paradigm […]

2007 – 2008 US ITASE Field Report Paul Andrew Mayewski, Gordon Hamilton (University of Maine) Brian Welch (St. Olaf College) Introduction: US ITASE is foremost a scientific endeavor that seeks to collect the highest quality scientific data under the safest and most efficient conditions possible.  It has been operating successfully as a traverse platform since […]

Archaeological Exploration of the Cotahuasi Highlands, Southern Peru Kurt Rademaker (CCI), David Reid (Anthropology Dept.) Project setup.  Kurt writes: Before Dave and I can even think about the canyon survey itself, we have to deal with some serious logistical issues.  We are setting out to spend three weeks backpacking and documenting archaeological sites within a […]

Glacial History and Paleoclimate in Patagonia (Southern South America) during the LGM and Termination of the Last Glacial Cycle Juan Luis Garcia, Climate Change Institute Patagonia is an amazing natural region located in the southern cone of South America. Although the Southern Andes are deprived of those tremendous five or six thousand m a.s.l. peaks […]

Beartooth Mountains – Wyoming/Montana The Interactive Effects of Ultraviolet Radiation & Temperature on Pelagic Food Webs Jasmine Saros, Courtney Wigdahl July 2007, August 2007 The objective of this research is to understand how temperature and colored dissolved organic matter (CDOM) influence the impact of UV on food webs in lakes. We argue that climate change […]

A joint Brazilian-Chilean-USA expedition at Detroit Plateau Antarctic Peninsula Glaciological and Atmospheric Studies This field work is part of CASA English Climate of the Antarctic and South America (CASA): Joint Brazilian-Chilean-US ice core drilling on the Detroit Plateau, Antarctic Peninsula Español Clima de Antártica y Sud-América (CASA) Extracción conjunta Brasil-Chile-Estados Unidos de testigo de hielo […]

Archaeological Exploration of the Cotahuasi Highlands, Southern Peru Kurt Rademaker (CCI), David Reid (Anthropology Dept.) This month’s field expedition is the latest installment in an ongoing interdisciplinary research program involving a team of senior scientists, graduate and undergraduate students from the University of Maine and collaborating academic institutions in the United States and Peru.  The […]

Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition (LGIT) in the Southern Hemisphere Determining patterns of abrupt climate change during the Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition (LGIT) in the Southern Hemisphere Marcus Vandergoes, Ann Dieffenbacher-Krall, Karen Marysdaughter, Aaron Putnam, Alice Doughty Field collaborator: Scott Travis Date:  February 2007 Funding:  National Science Foundation Relationship between deglacial climate change in the Northern and Southern […]

Preliminary glaciological studies in the Peninsula Luis Felipe, Antarctica Andrei Kurbatov, UMaine, María Angélica Godoi and Marcelo Arevalo, Universidad de Magallanes (UMAG) and Fundación Centro de Estudios del Cuaternario (CEQUA), Ricardo Jaña Instituto Antárctico Chileno (INACH) and CEQUA January 26, 2007 to February 20, 2007 Updates: 10 February Climate models suggest that the Antarctic and […]