Climate Change Institute

Sean Birkel, state climatologist and assistant professor at the Climate Change Institute and Cooperative Extension at the University of Maine, spoke to News Center Maine for an article about the impact of climate change on Maine dairy farmers. Birkel said that while more arid regions of the country will get drier with the increasing temperatures, […]

El Nino has been a major driver of societal collapse, various catastrophes and cultural change in coastal Peru for millenia, but it isn’t the only culprit. In a new study, University of Maine researchers warn against over-interpreting the role climatic change, like an El Nino event, plays in societal and cultural transition. Dan Sandweiss, a […]

In an article debunking a tweet that used an image from the University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer, Climate Fact Check noted that the Data Sources & Additional Information section on the Climate Reanalyzer website clearly mentions that climate trends should be inferred from long-term data. Thus, using the global temperature record on a single day […]

The rapid warming of the 20th century has reversed 900 years of cooling in the Gulf of Maine, according to a new study led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, co-authored by the University of Maine and funded by the National Science Foundation. The Gulf of Maine has undergone recent, rapid ocean warming, but the […]

The scientific community now has a standard set of protocols for collecting data about volcanic ash known as tephra, thanks to an international team of researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey, the University of Maine and various institutions across the country. Tephra is any airborne material produced by an explosive volcanic eruption that plays an […]

The Bangor Daily News and WMTW (Channel 8 in Portland) reported on a study co-authored by the University of Maine showing that climate change has reversed nearly a millennium of cooling in the Gulf of Maine over the past century. “Combining precisely dated geochemical data from the clam shells with state-of-the-art climate models provides a […]

Ivan Fernandez, distinguished Maine professor at the School of Forest Resources, Climate Change Institute and School of Food and Agriculture, was a panelist on the Maine Public radio show “Maine On Point” for an episode about how carbon sequestration in Maine can help slow climate change.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $249,851 grant to Andrei Kurbatov, associate professor at the Climate Change Institute and the School of Earth and Climate Sciences at the University of Maine, for developing new hyperspectral imaging techniques for analyzing ice cores. UMaine is part of an interdisciplinary collaborative proposal led by University of […]

Cindy Isenhour, assistant professor of anthropology and climate change at the University of Maine, was featured on the 1010 WINS In Depth podcast discussing whether thrifting is contributing to fashion’s culture of excess. Isenhour discussed the resource loops of thrifting, particularly with respect to the growing resale market. “Some people that are looking at this […]

Danielle Levesque, assistant professor of mammalogy and mammalian health at the School of Biology and Ecology, was featured on CBC’s Quirks and Quarks answering listener questions about animal body temperatures. Levesque said mammals’ normal body temperature ranges from 30 to 41 degrees Celsius because outside of that range, mammalian proteins and enzymes either don’t function […]