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 […]
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Expedition Location: Nome, Alaska Expedition Dates: July 8, 2023 – July 16, 2023 Field Team Members: Wouter Hantson, Daryl Yang Funding Support: The Robert and Judith Sturgis Family Foundation and NGEE Arctic Background and Significance: The expansion of tall shrubs into northern high-latitude ecosystems is driving widespread changes in tundra ecosystems that may fundamentally modify […]
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Expedition Location: Denali National Park, Alaska Expedition Dates: June 8, 2023 – July 14, 2023 Field Team Members: Emma Erwin (Phd Student, UMaine), Keegan Bellamy (MS student, UMaine), Claire Bicknell (BS student, Alaska Pacific University) Funding Support: Dan & Betty Churchill Exploration Fund Research Background: Twin surface-to-bedrock ice cores recovered from Begguya (Mt. Hunter) in 2013 have […]
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Expedition Field Team Member: Mikaila A. Mannello, Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, Orono, ME Expedition Funding: Dan and Betty Churchill Exploration Fund, the Mount Logan Ice Core Project, University of Alberta Canadian Ice Core Lab, and the Maine Space Grant Consortium. Field Expedition Location: Quintino Sella Glacier, Yukon Territory, Canada Expedition Dates: May 6-18, […]
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Expedition Location: Kangerlussuaq, West Greenland Expedition Dates: March 30, 2023 – April 11, 2023 Participants: Vendy Hazukova, Amanda Gavin Funding Support: The Robert and Judith Sturgis Family Foundation and NSF DDRIG Background and Significance: Collecting carbon dioxide data from Arctic lakes is needed because inland waters are important sites of carbon processing and are often expected to […]
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Churchill Exploration Fund Trip Report Expedition Location: Dailekh district in Western Nepal Expedition Dates: October 15, 2021 – August 10, 2022 Funding Support: Dan & Betty Churchill Exploration Fund Research Background Global climate change presents extreme challenges to both social and ecological systems (Pachauri et al., 2015). Current understandings of climate change adaptation problems seek […]
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Human Rights and COP27 Nicholas Micinski is Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at the University of Maine. Most people at COP27 recognize climate change as the most pressing issue of our times. It is an existential threat to our communities, economies, and political institutions. Climate change also threatens our individual lives and […]
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Expedition Team Members: Maraina Miles¹ ² ¹Climate Change Institute, University of Maine ²School of Earth and Climate Science, University of Maine Expedition Dates: May-October 2022 Funding Support: The Robert & Judith Sturgis Family Foundation Summary: Katahdin, the largest mountain in Maine, offers a unique view into the climate of the past. Draped along […]
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Expedition Team Members: Andrea Tirrell¹², Michael Cianchette¹, Charlie Cogbill³, Don Hudson⁴, Jacquelyn Gill¹² ¹School of Biology and Ecology, University of Maine ²Climate Change Institute, University of Maine ³Harvard Forest, Harvard University ⁴Baxter State Park Research Committee, Maine Expedition Location: Baxter State Park, Maine Expedition Dates: Summer/Fall 2022 Funding Support: Maine Outdoor Heritage Fund […]
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Meghan Spoth, Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, Orono, ME Cincinnati & Amherst Laboratory Visits: University of Cincinnati – Organic Geochemistry Laboratory – May 2022 University of Massachusetts at Amherst – Ronald B. Gilmore X-Ray Fluorescence Laboratory – July 2022 Funding Support: The Robert & Judith Sturgis Family Foundation, Geological Society of America […]
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