Climate Change Institute

What triggered the change in climate that caused the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) — the largest expansion of ice cover across the planet in the last ice age — remains a mystery, one that Zander Roman of Belfast wants to help solve. When he begins his paleoclimate Ph.D. program at the University of Maine, Roman […]

WVII (Channel 7) talked with Rebecca Champagne, a Ph.D. candidate in ecology and environmental sciences at the University of Maine and editor-in-chief of the journal SPIRE, and Daniel Dixon, sustainability director at UMaine, about the Earth Day release of the fifth issue of SPIRE, The Maine Journal of Conservation and Sustainability.

Darren Ranco says Indigenous peoples should be part of land use decisions, including whether to expand the quarantine zone for the emerald ash borer in northern Maine. “We have to be at the table because proof is in the pudding,” says the University of Maine associate professor of anthropology, chair of Native American Programs, and […]

The Portland Press Herald highlighted a slate of Earth Week events sponsored by Sierra Club Maine, including a virtual talk by Paul Mayewski, director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine. Mayewski will speak at 5 p.m. April 21 about the effect of global climate change in Maine.

Paul Mayewski, Kimberley Miner and Mariusz Potocki were interviewed by The Washington Post about finding per- and polyfluorinated substances (PFAS), or “forever chemicals,” near the summit of Everest. Mayewski is the director of the Climate Change Institute (CCI) at the University of Maine, Miner is an assistant research professor with CCI, and Potocki is a […]

An image from the Climate Reanalyzer developed by Sean Birkel, a research assistant professor with the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, was featured with a Washington Post story about the reassignment of Trump appointee Betsy Weatherhead to the U.S. Geological Survey.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/mt-everest-pollution/2021/04/16/7b341ff0-909f-11eb-bb49-5cb2a95f4cec_story.html By Murray Carpenter April 17, 2021 at 9:30 a.m. EDT From an elevation of 27,600 feet, just below the summit of Everest, researcher Mariusz Potocki could see one of the planet’s most dramatic scenes — the snow-capped Himalayas against a deep blue sky. He was on a mission to gather snow and ice samples […]

The Bangor Daily News shared a University of Maine news release highlighting a recent NASA New Investigator Program (NIP) award to Kristin Schild, a glaciologist and assistant research professor in UMaine’s School of Earth and Climate Sciences. Schild, the first Maine-based researcher to receive a NASA NIP award since 2003, will use the nearly $380,000 […]

10.1029/2020GL091602 Dominic A. Winski1 , Erich C. Osterberg2 , Karl J. Kreutz1 , David G. Ferris2, Jihong Cole-Dai3 , Zayta Thundercloud2, Jiayue Huang4, Becky Alexander4 , Lyatt Jaeglé4 , Joshua A. Kennedy3, Carleigh Larrick3, Emma C. Kahle5 , Eric J. Steig5 , and Tyler R. Jones6 1Climate Change Institute and School of Earth and Climate […]

Research led by University of Maine glaciologist Kristin Schild to quantify and predict iceberg melting rates has received NASA New (Early Career) Investigator Program (NIP) in Earth Science funding. Schild received one of 38 NASA NIP awards and is the first Maine-based researcher to receive the triennial recognition since 2003. The assistant research professor with […]