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Gill speaks to Physics World about the term ‘Anthropocene’

Jacquelyn Gill, associate professor of paleoecology and plant ecology at the University of Maine, spoke to Physics World about the term “Anthropocene,” which geologists have not yet fully defined despite the fact that the term has entered the public discourse. “I think, in a lot of ways, the cat’s out of the bag. … What […]

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News Center Maine features Birkel research about manufactured homes

News Center Maine featured Sean Birkel, research assistant professor of the Climate Change Institute, and his research with the University of Vermont and University of New Hampshire about the climate resilience of manufactured homes. “The whole basin, and also [the] Gulf of Maine, last year and this year, are the two warmest years on record. […]

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UMaine-led study shows mountain glacier melting is linked to shifting westerlies and likely to accelerate – A. Audet, A. Putnam, G. Denton et al.

The combination of global atmospheric warming and westerly winds shifting toward the poles will likely speed up the recession of mountain glaciers in both hemispheres, according to a UMaine study. Mountain glaciers freeze and gain mass when the climate cools, and melt and lose mass when the climate warms. The extent to which the fluctuations […]

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Alessandro Mereghetti awarded an NSF Arctic DDRIG grant award

EES/SBE/CCI PhD student Alessandro Mereghetti has been awarded an NSF Arctic DDRIG: Assessing the impacts of Pleistocene megaherbivores n vegetation stability and resilience in the Arctic ($56,118). This will support his upcoming fieldwork in Alaska, using ancient DNA to reconstruct the last 120,000 years around Squirrel Lake in the Kotzebue Sound region.

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AP cites information from UMaine Climate Reanalyzer – S. Birkel

In an article about the warming Arctic regions of Alaska, the Associated Press cited information from the University of Maine Climate Reanalyzer that showed last Sunday, the Arctic as a whole averaged 11.5 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the 1979-2000 average temperature. The following Monday, Climate Reanalyzer’s computer models showed that average to likely be 10.5 […]

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2022-23 CUGR and MSGC Academic Year Graduate Fellowship Recipients Announced – H. Brooks

The University of Maine’s Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR) has announced the 2022-23 CUGR and Maine Space Grant Consortium (MSGC) academic year graduate fellowship winners. The CUGR Research and Creative Activities fellowships were developed to enhance and increase undergraduate and graduate student involvement in faculty-supervised research and are supported through the office of the Vice […]

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