Climate Change Institute

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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   […]

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 […]

Expedition Field Team Members: Elizabeth Leclerc1,2*, Heather Landázuri1,2*, Daniel Sandweiss1,2, Oswaldo Chozo Capuñay3, Alberto López 1Climate Change Institute, University of Maine 2Department of Anthropology, University of Maine 3Túcume Archaeological Site and Museum *Student grantees   Field Expedition Location:  Lambayeque Valley, Peru Expedition Dates:  June 2022 Funding Support:  The Robert & Judith Sturgis Family Foundation   […]