Climate Change Institute

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

University of Maine researchers are studying how changes in rainfall patterns caused by climate change could affect strawberries in the Northeast. Principal investigator Rachel Schattman, an assistant professor of sustainable agriculture, and her research team built a precipitation and cropping simulator to assess the effects of four possible rainfall scenarios on strawberries and other specialty […]

National Geographic spoke with Andy Pershing, an associate professor of climate change at the University of Maine, and Robert Steneck, a professor of marine sciences at UMaine about climate change in the Gulf of Maine and the impact on the lobsters and the lobster fishery.

“Landscape of Change” by Jill Pelto is on the cover of “A Climate Chronology,” a 225-page-and-counting searchable document. Pelto, a UMaine alumna, is a scientist and artist.   When Sharon Tisher reflects on the climate crises that students in her courses are inheriting, she sometimes experiences a momentary loss of words. “My generation are the […]

Ivan Fernandez, a professor of soil science and forest resources at the University of Maine, talked with WMTW (Channel 8 in Portland) about the impacts of climate change on agriculture in Maine including earlier harvests and earlier onset of drought and arrival of pests.

A case study using 2019 pre-monsoon snow and stream chemistry in the Khumbu Region, Nepal Heather M. Clifford a,b,⁎, Mariusz Potocki a,b, Inka Koch c,d, Tenzing Sherpa c, Mike Handley a, Elena Korotkikh a, Douglas Introne a, Susan Kaspari e, Kimberley Miner a, Tom Matthews f, Baker Perry g, Heather Guy h, Ananta Gajurel i, […]

The Laconia Daily Sun interviewed Marcella Sorg, about her work as a forensic anthropologist for Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and Rhode Island. “I enjoy problem solving, each case is unique,” said Sorg, a University of Maine research professor at the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center who also works with the Climate Change Institute. “I think […]

Researchers at the University of Maine and the University of Maine Farmington (UMF) have received a grant of $29,996 to facilitate development of a circular food system that promotes value-added processing of rural agricultural surplus and by-products to address food waste and food insecurity challenges. The project is funded by the University of Maine System […]

CBS News talked with Andrew Pershing, a University of Maine associate professor with the Climate Change Institute, about warming trends in the northern Atlantic Ocean for a story about the Warming Stripes model of climate change. Pershing notes that the waters off the East Coast of the U.S., including the Gulf of Maine, are warming […]