Climate Change Institute

Expedition Location:  Inyo National Forest, California Expedition Dates:  September 25-29, 2023 Field Team Members:  Meghan Spoth  (PhD Student, UMaine), Maraina Miles (PhD Student, UMaine) Funding Support:  Dan & Betty Churchill Exploration Fund Research Background: What drives droughts in the American West? The position of the westerly winds may influence precipitation amount and pattern in the […]

Expedition Location: Vestland, Norway Expedition Dates: August 29th 2023 – September 29th 2023 Field Team Members:  Ansley Grider  (MS Student, UMaine) Field Trip Leader, Jasmine Saros (Professor, UMaine) Funding Support: Dan & Betty Churchill Exploration Fund Background & Significance: Glaciers are located at an interface between the atmospheric and terrestrial environments, making them potential hot […]

Expedition Location: Lysefjord, southwestern Norway Expedition Dates: August 2023 Field Team Members:  Tricia Hall Collins  (PhD Student, UMaine) Field Trip Leader, Katie Westbrook (MS Student, UMaine), and Dr. Aaron Putnam (UMaine). Funding Support: The Robert and Judith Sturgis Family Foundation   Background & Study Area: I completed fieldwork in Lysefjord (figure 1) in southwestern Norway […]

Expedition Location: Eclipse Icefield, Kluane National Park and Reserve, Yukon, Canada Expedition Dates: June 2023 Field Team Members:  Renée Clavette (PhD Student, UMaine) Field Trip Leader, Inga Kindstedt (PhD Candidate, UMaine), Emma Erwin (PhD Student, UMaine), Kailey Mannello (Master’s Student, UMaine). Funding Support: Churchill Exploration Fund, UMaine Graduate Student Government, The Golden Family Foundation – […]

Expedition Location: Svaneti, Georgia Expedition Dates: July 2023 Field Team Members: Lizi Gadrani 1,2*, Mikheil Elashvili3, Anca Dan4 1Climate Change Institute, University of Maine 2School of Earth and Climate Sciences, University of Maine 3Cultural Heritage and Environmental Research Center, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia 4CNRS, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France Funding Support: The Robert and […]

Expedition Location: Denali National Park, Alaska Expedition Dates: June 8, 2023 – July 14, 2023 Field Team Members: Keegan Bellamy (MS Student, UMaine), Emma Erwin (PhD student, UMaine), Claire Bicknell (BS Student, Alaska Pacific University) Funding Support: The Robert and Judith Sturgis Family Foundation   Research Background: This project expands previous geophysical studies conducted in […]

Expedition Location: Ponce, Puerto Rico Expedition Dates: June 12 – 18, 2023 Field Team Members: Karina M. Cortijo-Robles (Researcher), Elizabeth Leclerc (Research Assistant), and Mariana Z. Aguirre Rodriguez (Volunteer) Funding Support: The Robert and Judith Sturgis Family Foundation   Background & Significance: Tibes, on the south side of Puerto Rico, is one of the best-preserved […]

Expedition Location:  Kluane National Park and Reserve, Yukon, Canada Upper Seward Glacier Expedition Dates: May 12-23, 2023 Field Team Members: Mikaila Mannello (MS student, UMaine), Martin Truffer (University of Alaska Fairbanks), Doug Brinkerhoff (University of Montana), Victor Deveaux-Chupin (PhD Candidate, University of Alaska Fairbanks), Michael Daniel (PhD Student, University of Arizona), Annegret Pohle (PhD Student, […]

Expedition Location:  Qalerallt Imaa, South Greenland Expedition Dates:  June 11, 2023 – July 02, 2023 Field Team Members:  Sydney Baratta, Kristin Schild, Lee Karp-Boss, Allie Berry Funding Support: The Robert and Judith Sturgis Family Foundation, NSF SAUNNA NRT, and the University of Maine Graduate Student Government   Background and Significance: The Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) has […]

Expedition Location:  Harare, Zimbabwe Expedition Dates:  Summer 2023 Field Team Members:  Victoria Markiewicz, Dr. Nicholas Micinski Funding Support: The Robert and Judith Sturgis Family Foundation   Background and Significance: The eastern region of Zimbabwe is experiencing an increase of intense tropical cyclones that travel through Mozambique from the Indian Ocean. These cyclones cause flooding that destroys livelihoods […]