Climate Change Institute

Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective multidisciplinary collegiate honor society, has awarded graduate research grants to three University of Maine students. Emma Erwin, a Ph.D. student in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences; Elizabeth Leclerc, an interdisciplinary Ph.D. student with the Department of Anthropology and the Climate Change Institute; and Dylan […]

Kit Hamley, EES PhD Candidate in SBE/CCI, has been awarded a highly competitive American Dissertation Fellowship from the American Association of University Women. This $25,000 fellowship will support Kit for 2023-2024 as she completes her dissertation, which leverages new tools to understand human prehistory in Maine and the Falkland Islands. Kit was previously supported by […]

The University of Maine Climate Change Institute has announced the graduate students who won awards for their research presentations during the 2023 Harold W. Borns Jr. Symposium. Ph.D. student Alessandro Mereghetti won first place for best overall talk for his presentation titled “Reconstructing Extinct Herbivore Community Structure Through High-Resolution Coprolite Analysis: An Insight into the […]

The Association of College and University Printers (ACUP+) awarded University of Maine Printing Services two first-place platinum production awards (large institution) for its work on a Climate Change Institute 50th anniversary publication and a College of Engineering student recruitment poster. The 78-page CCI publication, which included a nearly 3-foot timeline poster, was cited by ACUP+ […]

In an article about ocean surface temperatures reaching a record high, EcoWatch cited data from the University of Maine Climate Reanalyzer showing that the daily sea surface temperature hit 21.1 degrees Celsius on April 1 and remained there through April 6. The recorded high beat the previous highest ocean surface temperature of 21.0 degrees Celsius, […]

Scientists warn of more marine heatwaves, leading to increased risk of extreme weather. A global map using data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration showing areas in orange and red where temperatures have been above the long-term average. Photograph: University Of Maine.   The temperature of the world’s ocean surface has hit an all-time […]

In an article about record breaking sea temperatures causing supercharged storms, the New Scientist cited data from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer showing that global average sea surface temperature hit a record high of 21.1 degrees Celsius on April 1.

Traversing an icefield by foot and on skis, the young researchers experience one of the coolest classrooms in the nation     A team skis from the remote Taku D site to the Camp 10 sleeping quarters. Students often travel as much as 8 to 10 miles a day, carrying packs a third of their […]

“Insights from the first winter weather observations near Mt. Everest’s summit” by T.C. Sherpa and co-authors including CCI Director/Professor Paul Andrew Mayewski who was the leader of the National Geographic/Rolex Perpetual Planet Mt. Everest Expedition.

Sierra Magazine featured an essay entitled “The Asteroid and the Fern” that Jacquelyn Gill, associate professor of paleoecology and plant ecology with the University of Maine School of Biology and Ecology and Climate Change Institute, wrote for the collection “Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story From Despair to Possibility” edited by Rebecca Solnit and […]