Climate Change Institute

Three University of Maine faculty — Heather Leslie, Sydne Record and Brenda Hall — spoke at the annual meeting for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) on Feb. 14. AAAS is the world’s largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research.  Leslie, professor of marine science who was named […]

https://www.jonaa.org/content/as-greenland-decides OPINON Authors: Charles H. Norchi, Amanda H. LynchPhotograph: Angu Motzfeldt February 2025 This March Greenland will hold a national election. Likely on the minds of the voters is the Greenland saying, “nothing about us, without us.” Since US President Donald Trump stated his ambition to acquire Greenland by sale or by force, the election […]

Potocki, M., Mayewski, P.A., Casassa, G., Handley, M., Introne, D., Hooper, J., Novak, S. and Maasch, K., 2024, Surface Melting and Chemical Analysis of a firn core from South Georgia: Implications for Future Drilling Sites and Paleoenvironmental Records, Journal of Glaciology, https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2024.110

FEBRUARY 19 – 5:30, NOCTURNEM DRAFT HAUS, 56 MAIN STREET, BANGOR Featuring: Dr. Dan Sandweiss, Professor, Dept. of Anthropology & Climate Change Institute & Dr. Kirk Maasch, Professor, School of Earth & Climate Sciences and Climate Change Institute.

The CBC has released a radio show including our PNAS paperQuirks & Quarks airs at 12pm on Saturdays in each timezone across Canada (12:30pm in Newfoundland) on CBC Radio One. You can also catch it live on CBC Radio 1 online on Saturday at 12pm across Canada or on Sirius XM satellite radio (Channel 169). Or you can find it in any podcast […]

———- Forwarded message ———From: Cindy Isenhour<cynthia.isenhour@maine.edu>Date: Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 1:37 PMSubject: 2025 Human Dimensions of Climate Change Film Series_please spread the wordTo: Dear colleagues,  Sephora McIntyre and I are excited to share the lineup for the University of Maine’s 12th Annual Human Dimensions of Climate Change Film Series.   Would you please help us to get the word out by […]

The Portland Press Herald interviewed Sean Birkel, Maine state climatologist and assistant professor at the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, on the likelihood of a large fire developing in Maine. Birkel said the Northeast region of the country is more humid than the western part, but drought conditions in recent years have increased the […]

Microbial biogeography along a 2578 km transect on the East Antarctic Plateau Victor Parro, María Ángeles Lezcano, Mercedes Moreno-Paz, Alfonso F. Davila, Armando Azua-Bustos, Miriam García-Villadangos, Jacek Wierzchos, Miguel Ángel Fernández-Martínez, Ramón Larramendi, Hilo Moreno, Ignacio Oficialdegui, Manuel Olivera, Miguel Redondo-Nieto, Pedro Mustieles-del-Ser, Mariusz Potocki, Paul Andrew Mayewski, Sergi González-Herrero, Antonio Quesada  Nature Communications volume 16, Article number: 775 […]

USA Today cited a data visualization from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute Climate Reanalyzer that showed how the temperature of air 6.5 feet above the sea surface has increased since 1979.