Climate Change Institute

The Bangor Daily News spoke with Ellen Mallory, a University of Maine professor of sustainable agriculture, and Sean Birkel, a research assistant professor with the Climate Change Institute, about the impact of changing weather patterns on the growing season in Maine. Mallory noted that it is likely the U.S. Department of Agriculture will adjust Maine’s […]

The Bangor Daily News cited a report prepared by a coalition of University of Maine faculty and staff in a story about rising sea levels in mid-coast Maine, particularly in the city of Bath.

Phys.org shared a University of Maine news release highlighting research conducted by Heather Clifford, a Ph.D. student with the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine. Clifford found that human-sourced metal pollution transported from far-flung locations could impact the health of populations around Everest’s Khumbu Glacier who use glacial melt water for drinking and […]

Sean Birkel, University of Maine research assistant professor and Maine’s state climatologist, spoke with the Bangor Daily News about an intense rainstorm in early June and its relation with climate change. “Three to four inches in a few hours certainly falls in the category of an extreme event,” he said. “While this was a weather […]

  Increased local tourism and toxic substances transported to glaciers from distant locales can contribute to high concentrations of human-sourced metal pollution in snow and streams around Mount Everest that is likely degrading the quality of water used by thousands of residents and climbers. Heather Clifford made the discoveries in a study she conducted after […]

Smithsonian Magazine spoke with Dan Sandweiss, a geoarchaeologist and professor of anthropology at the University of Maine, about the phytoliths in a remote Peruvian region which show that indigenous people sustainably managed forest biodiversity for millennia.

The Associated Press cited a report authored by Marcella Sorg, a University of Maine research professor, in a story about the number of drug-related deaths in Maine in 2020. More than 500 Mainers died of drug overdose during the pandemic. Sorg indicated that research continues to understand the role of isolation and lockdowns on the […]

Abstract: As hotspots of active carbon processing, terrestrial freshwater systems are important regulators of carbon fluxes across the landscape and sites of notable carbon emissions. The importance of lakes as carbon emission conduits to the surrounding landscape is amplified as permafrost begins to melt, changing landscape hydrological pathways and delivering large amounts of terrestrial carbon […]

Thesis Proposal Defense Hanna Brooks Assessing long range aerosol transport in the North Pacific on seasonal to millennial time scales Thursday, June 24th at 2 pm https://maine.zoom.us/j/8845193221?pwd=Zk5namNvNzVyYitGTlM5YnQ0WU5FZz09 Password: 939847