Climate Change Institute

Written by Travis Christensen Reviewed by Benjamin Fultz The haunting orange skies over San Francisco in 2020. The devastating Black Summer of Australia in 2019-2020. The record-breaking Los Angeles wildfires of 2025. These aren’t isolated incidents, but rather stark indicators of a growing global crisis where climate change and wildfires form a devastating feedback loop. […]

Daniel Sandweiss, professor of anthropology and climate studies at the University of Maine, was featured in the summer 2025 edition of American Archaeology. Sandweiss, who is also a past president of the Society for American Archaeology, talked about how extreme weather events make it hard for archeologists to set priorities about what to save and […]

The Washington Post cited a data visualization from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer on the length of time average hot temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere peaked between 1979 and 2000.

Windmills catch the wind blowing on Stetson Mountain, in Range 8, Township 3, Maine, in this July 14, 2009 file photo. Credit: Robert F. Bukaty / AP Michael Howard is an emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Maine and an external associate of the Climate Change Institute. He is a member of the […]

Susan Elias (UMaine Alumna) has contributed two original research papers in the Summer 2025 edition of the Journal of Maine Medical Center – Maine Health – Focus on Tick-Borne Diseases. S. Elias was a PhD graduate student within the IGERT program. https://knowledgeconnection.mainehealth.org/jmmc/vol7/iss2 This publication also features cover art by Olaf Hajek entitled: “Ecology of Lyme”.

Amanda Gavin, EES PhD Candidate in the Climate Change Institute, has been awarded the American Dissertation Fellowship from the American Association of University Women, which recognizes doctoral candidates who demonstrate a strong commitment to service for women and girls in their communities, professions, or fields of research.This fellowship will support the completion of Amanda’s dissertation, […]

April 30, 2025 The University of Maine will confer an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters to George H. Denton, a multi-generational leader in glacial research and climate science education, during its morning undergraduate commencement ceremony on May 11.  “No one is more deserving of this year’s honorary doctorate than our very own George Denton. He […]

Prof. Langway’s distinguished career in glaciology started in1956 and included government service, academia and visionary contributions to the physical and chemical interpretations retrievable from glaciers. Paul Andrew Mayewski. https://www.chapmanfuneral.com/obituaries/Chester-Charles-Langway-Jr?obId=42323867#/obituaryInfo Obituary Chester Charles Langway, Jr. of Harwich, Massachusetts, passed away peacefully at home surrounded by his loving family, on Monday, April 29, 2025. He was 95 […]

April 11, 2025 Jacquelyn Gill, professor of terrestrial paleoecology, was featured in reports from Science.org, Scientific American, Science News, The Next Web and Cyber News on Colossal Biosciences’s genetic modification of gray wolf pups to resemble the dire wolf, an extinct species. “[The pups] don’t have any traits that would allow us to understand the […]