Climate Change Institute

An Awful and Wonderful Place: Journey to the South Sandwiches Expedition Dates: December 2020 – Feb 2021 Field Team: Paul Mayewski, Mariusz Potocki University of Maine – Climate Change Institute Penguin News, February 7, 2020 PENGUIN News caught up with Pelagic Expeditions’ Skip Novak and three members of the multi-disciplinary scientific expedition that recently spent […]

Expedition Dates – 1 April-3 June 2019 Field Team: Paul Mayewski, Aaron Putnam, Mariusz Potocki, Heather Clifford, Peter Strand, Laura Mattas University of Maine – Climate Change Institute   Photo by Dirk Collins, National Geographic. June 13, 2019 Research Highlights An international team of scientists, climbers and storytellers, led by the National Geographic Society and […]

  Expedition Dates – October 10 – December 18, 2019 Field Team: Frankie St. Amand (UMaine IPhD, CCI)   Expedition Funding Acknowledgement – Dan & Betty Churchill Exploration Fund, Phi Kappa Phi Love of Learning Award, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program   Research Background: El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a complex climatic phenomenon that […]

  Expedition Dates – September 22nd-October 8th, 2019 Field Team: Scott Braddock1,2, Kristin Schild1,2, Raul Pereda3, Felidor Paredes3, Fernando Iglesias Letelier4 1 – University of Maine – Climate Change Institute 2 – University of Maine – School of Earth and Climate Sciences 3 – CONAF –Department of Protected Areas 4 – Round River Conservation Studies […]

Expedition Dates: January – March, 2019 Field Team Members: Scott Braddock1,2, Meghan Spoth1,2 Climate Change Institute, 2. School of Earth and Climate Science – University of Maine Expedition Funding: National Science Foundation award: PLR-1738989   Summary: Accelerated ice retreat in recent decades for Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet has […]

Date:  December 2-14, 2018.  Delegation Members:   Jamie Haverkamp, Will Kochtitzky,  Anna McGinn, Cindy Isenhour, Dan Dixon, Jim Settele, Alex Rezk Expedition Funding Acknowledgement:  Dan & Betty Exploration Fund, Climate Change Institute, SPIA, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Events and Experiences Fund, National Science Foundation GRFP: DGE-1144205, University of Maine Graduate Student […]

Expedition Date: August 26 – September 2, 2018 Field Team Members: Carl Tugend (CCI), Mark Edlund & Adam Heathcote (St Croix Watershed Research Station), Charles Umbanhowar (St Olaf College) Expedition Funding Acknowledgement: National Park Service PMIS #160929 Expedition Report:  Multiple lines of evidence suggest that wilderness boreal lakes are rapidly changing, with unprecedented appearances of […]

Expedition Dates: April 12-20, 2018 and June 18-July 9, 2018 Field Team Members/Affiliations: Jasmine Saros, Ben Burpee, Robert Northington (Husson University), Jim Almendinger (St Croix Watershed Research Station) Expedition Funding Acknowledgement: UMaine Expedition Report: This project employs sensor-based and direct monitoring of Arctic lakes in the Kangerlussuaq area of West Greenland to examine under ice […]

Expedition Date: August 2018 Field Team Members:  Dan Sandweiss 1,2, Cecilia Mauricio 3, Paul Roscoe 1,2,  Alice Kelley 1,2,4, Emily Blackwood1,2, Gloria Lopez5, and James Munch. 1Climate Change Institute, 2Anthropology Department, 3Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú,  4School of Earth & Climate Sciences, 5CENIEH Expedition Funding Acknowledgement: Churchill Expedition Fund and University of Maine College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean’s Office Expedition […]

Expedition Date:  August 2018 Field Team Members:  Erin McConnell, Mariama Dryak, Jill Pelto, and Mauri Pelto Expedition Funding Acknowledgement:  North Cascade Glacier Climate Project Expedition Report:  As our small group reached the highest point in our hike, the mist that had blanketed us at the onset of the hike trailed away, opening our view to […]