Climate Change Institute

Bonnie Newsom, assistant professor of anthropology, was awarded a $50,000 grant from the Telling the Full History Preservation Fund through the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the National Endowment for the Humanities for a project researching the history of marginalized peoples in Acadia National Park. Telling the Full History grant program funds projects that […]

2022 Summer MSGC Graduate Fellowship Winners Announced April 26, 2022 The University of Maine’s Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR) and the Maine Space Grant Consortium (MSGC) have announced the 2022 Summer MSGC Graduate Research Fellowship Award recipients. The purpose of the MSGC fellowship and scholarship programs at UMaine is to provide research opportunities to undergraduate […]

MercoPress, an independent news agency based in Uruguay, reported that  Jacquelyn Gill, associate professor in the School of Biology and Ecology and the Climate Change Institute, and Kit Hamley, Ph.D. candidate in the Climate Change Institute, were recently selected as the winner of the Ecological Society of America’s W.S. Cooper Award for a study on […]

Jacquelyn Gill, associate professor in the School of Biology and Ecology and the Climate Change Institute, and Kit Hamley, Ph.D. candidate in the Climate Change Institute, are co-authors on a research paper that was recently selected as the winner of the Ecological Society of America’s W.S. Cooper Award for a study of seabirds in the […]

University of Maine Early College has partnered with the College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture to develop a Climate Change Online Career Pathway. The 15-credit Pathway consists of a set of core courses (nine credits) in geology, economics and English, and six credits of recommended electives. Climate Change joins a portfolio of 30 pathways […]

Cindy Isenhour, associate professor of anthropology and climate change, spoke with Waste Dive about her research about reusable takeout containers. Isenhour worked with a graduate student to present a few possible models for reusable takeout containers to a group of 35 Maine hospitality, waste and environmental management stakeholders in fall 2021 as part of a […]

This year’s University of Maine Presidential Awards recognize outstanding achievement in teaching in Earth and climate sciences, research in the biophysics of flow-related biological and physiological functions in humans and animals, and impactful community engagement in nursing, particularly during the past two years of the pandemic. Karl Kreutz Karl Kreutz, director and professor of the […]

Four graduate students affiliated with CCI, Emma Erwin (PhD student), Scott Braddock (PhD candidate), Mikaila Mannello (MS student and CCI RA), and Jonathan Maurer (MS student) were each awarded a Maine Space Grant to conduct research in Alaska and Canada during the summer of 2022. Scott and Emma are working together in Denali National Park, […]

Aaron Putnam, associate professor, and George Denton, professor, both in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences, and the Climate Change Institute, collaborated with international scientists to write an article about the Zealandia Switch for The Conversation. Putnam, Denton and their collaborators are researching New Zealand’s climate history, and have postulated a new mechanism that […]

A University of Maine-led research study about prehistoric human activity in the Falkland Islands has been adapted into a kid-friendly format for use in classrooms by the organization Science Journal for Kids. Science Journal for Kids is a nonprofit based in Texas whose mission is to improve scientific literacy by adapting research papers for school […]