Climate Change Institute

Expedition Date: June – August 2018 Field Team Members:  Erin McConnell, Karl Kreutz, and Seth Campbell Expedition Funding:  Dan & Betty Churchill Exploration Fund Expedition Report: The North Pacific is characterized by complicated atmospheric dynamics, which must be understood to predict the region’s response to a warming climate. Glaciers in the St. Elias Mountains of […]

Expedition Dates: March 6-10, 2018 Field Team Members:  Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie (CCI), Dulcinea Groff (CCI), Kit Hamley (CCI), and Karen James Expedition Funding Acknowledgement:  David H. Smith Conservation Research Fellowship Acknowledgement:  Baxter State Park Expedition Report: Topographically complex landscapes in the northeastern U.S. harbor conservation legacies and regionally unique plant populations. Baxter State Park’s mountain habitats […]

Expedition Date: JUNE 2018 Field Team Members:  Dominic Winski 1, 2, Bess Koffman3, Julianne DeAngelo 2,  Victor Cabrera 2, Eleanor Dowd2, Meg Yoder3, and Taylor Methven3. 1. Climate Change Institute, 2. Dartmouth College, 3. Colby College . Expedition Funding Acknowledgement:  Various sources of internal scholarship and research funding from Dartmouth and Colby College. Acknowledgement:  This […]

Expedition Date: AUGUST 2018 Field Team Members:  Dan Sandweiss 1, 2, Cecilia Mauricio 3, Paul Roscoe 1,2,  Alice Kelley 1,2,4, Emily Blackwood2, Gloria Lopez5, and James Munch. 1. Climate Change Institute, 2. Anthropology Department, 3.  Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú  4. School of Earth & Climate Sciences, 5. CENIEH   Expedition Funding:  University of Maine […]

Expedition Date: SEPTEMBER 2018 Field Team Members: Paul A. Mayewski1 (Expedition Leader), Jefferson Cardia Simões1,2 (Expedition Leader), Dan Dixon1, Mariusz Potocki1, Charles I. Rodda1, Heather M. Clifford1, Mike Waszkiewicz1, Ronaldo Torma Bernardo2, Flávia Alves Tavares2, Franciele Schwanck Carlos1,2, Shugui Hou3, Gino Casassa Rogazinski4, Oscar Vilca Gómez5, Harrison JaraInfantes5, Baker Perry1,6, Heather Guy6 1. Climate Change […]

A Multi-Proxy, Millennial-Scale Assessment of Climate, Vegetation, Fire, and Human Impacts in Jamaica, West Indies   Fieldwork team members: Mario Williams (Lead Investigator, M.S. Ecology & Environmental Sciences Candidate, Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, USA); Andrea Nurse (Paleoecology Research Associate, Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, USA); Romario Anderson (MPhil Candidate, Department of Geography […]

Samoa’s Climate Change Adaptation Landscape Churchill Exploration Fund Trip Report July 5-July 23, 2018 Anna McGinn, Climate Change Institute and School for Policy and International Affairs, University of Maine Anama Solofa, School for Marine Science MS ‘18, University of Maine Samoa is a small island state in the South Pacific Ocean. On most maps, it […]