Climate Change Institute

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 […]

In an article about polar bears eating garbage, the Conversation used data from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer to illustrate the extent of Arctic sea ice retreat between 1980 and 2020. Polar bears entering human settlements to feed on garbage is a direct result of reduced sea ice and the loss […]

Emma Erwin, graduate research assistant at the Climate Change Institute, spoke to KTNA (88.9FM in Talkeetna, Alaska) about her research studying ice core samples in Denali to learn more about climate change through the stratigraphy of the ice. “It provides a lot of really exciting opportunity to take information from what’s happening right now with […]

The Boston Globe reported on the Climate Adaptation Fellowship, a peer-to-peer learning program that paired 37 fruit and vegetable farmers and agricultural advisers from eight states across the Northeast, developed by the University of Maine, the USDA Northeast Climate Hub and the Rutgers Climate Institute. Through the fellowship, farmers and their advisers follow a climate […]

Sean Birkel, research assistant professor at the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, assistant professor in UMaine Extension and state climatologist, was interviewed by Maine Public about the current drought in the state. Birkel said there have been reports of wells going dry, particularly in the southwestern part of Maine, and more heat […]

The North Peaks of Katahdin featuring the glacial landscape of the North Basin of Katahdin, and its surroundings. Basin Ponds, the two small blue lakes near the base of the ridgelines, are hemmed in by a prominent glacial moraine ridge that wraps around part of the mountain. Researchers at the University of Maine hope to […]

In an article about the heat waves throughout Europe this week, the New York Times used data from Climate Reanalyzer developed by Sean Birkel, Maine state climatologist and a research assistant professor with the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, to map the maximum forecasted temperatures and the temperature difference from the historical mean. Washington […]

The University of Maine installed four new Level 2 electric vehicle charging stations for public use at the Stevens Hall parking lot, increasing its total number of chargers for UMaine community and public use to 35. Members of the public can charge their electric vehicles at these stations for $1.50 per hour. More information is […]

A University of Maine researcher will serve as an expert witness at a Congressional hearing Tuesday afternoon examining the role of farmers and ranchers in solving climate change and increasing food production. Rachel E. Schattman will virtually participate in a hearing of the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Environment that begins […]

Jacquelyn Gill, associate professor of paleoecology and plant ecology at the University of Maine School of Biology and Ecology and Climate Change Institute, was interviewed by The Scientist about the current sixth mass extinction. “We’re in this really unusual position, where, for the first time, we are trying to put our finger on a geologically […]