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OUR MOMENTS DEFINE TOMORROW   World’s tallest glaciers are disappearing The effects of climate change have reached the top of the world: Mount Everest. A University of Maine-led research team discovered that the highest glacier on the mountain — the South Col Glacier — and others are rapidly disappearing, losing several decades of ice and snow accumulation annually due […]

Daniel Sandweiss, a University of Maine professor in the Anthropology Department and the Climate Change Institute, and the 2022 Distinguished Maine Professor, has been named president-elect of the Society for American Archaeology. He will serve as president-elect for one year before serving a two-year term as SAA president. Sandweiss is an internationally recognized archaeologist whose […]

A Maine Public report about the impact of climate change on snowmobiling in Maine featured Sean Birkel, research assistant professor at the University of Maine Climate Change Institute. Birkel, also Maine state climatologist, said that in the past century, Maine has lost one to two weeks of winter and by 2050, the state will lose […]

The Bangor Daily News quoted Sean Birkel, Maine state climatologist and research assistant professor at the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, in an article about frost quakes. Birkel explained how climate change and extreme weather events are creating better conditions for frost quakes.

February 14, 2022 A longtime University of Maine professor who is a world-renowned researcher in Latin American archaeology and paleoclimatology is the 2022 Distinguished Maine Professor, the university’s most prestigious faculty award. Daniel Sandweiss is a UMaine professor in the Anthropology Department and the Climate Change Institute. He also is a cooperating professor in the […]

February 10, 2022 Episodes No place on earth can escape the effects of climate change, not even Mount Everest. The highest glacier on the world’s tallest mountain — the South Col Glacier — is rapidly disappearing. A new University of Maine-led study found that the glacier is losing several decades of ice and snow accumulation […]

Billions of people rely on glaciers for drinking water, hydropower and irrigation. A raft of new research suggests there is less ice left than previously thought. Read in NPR: https://apple.news/An6Wvt5MbR8GK5h32kJB1vw February 8, 20226:34 PM ET Quelccaya glacier in Peru, photographed in 2015. Glaciers in the Andes mountains contain significantly less water than previously thought, according […]

Orono, Maine — An all-student cast of seven will present the University of Maine School of Performing Arts Division of Theatre and Dance production of “Terra Nova” by Ted Tally, opening Feb. 11 in Hauck Auditorium at the University of Maine.   Directed by UMaine theatre instructor Julie Arnold Lisnet, “Terra Nova” is adapted from […]

The Maine Science Festival is scheduled for March 16-20, 2022.  As part of the Festival, Grammy-award winning composer, Lucas Richman composed a symphonic piece focused on climate change titled THE WARMING SEA which will be performed by the Bangor Symphony Orchestra on March 19 at the Collins Center for the Arts.  Preceding the symphony, three […]

The Juneau Icefield Research Program (JIRP) is having its 75th anniversary this year!  JIRP is an education and research program with academics run through the School of Earth & Climate Sciences and significant science support provided by the Climate Change Institute.  As part of JIRP’s celebration year, the program is holding a virtual event on February […]