Climate Change Institute

As the news reports a decrease in carbon emissions and atmospheric pollution globally, what will the long term impacts be? CCI Research Assistant Professor Kimberley Miner joins Newsy to discuss why the Coronavirus won’t be a quick fix to climate change problems. https://www.newsy.com/stories/experts-global-quarantine-won-t-defer-climate-change/

Steps and missteps on the path to a 1665–1668 CE date for the VEI 6 eruption of Long Island, Papua New Guinea Russell J.BlongaAndrei V.Kurbatovb a Risk Frontiers, 8/33 Chandos St, St Leonards, NSW 2065, Australia b Climate Change Institute and School of Earth & Climate Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04473, USA https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2020.106828   […]

Maine Public interviewed Paul Mayewski, director of the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, about the slowdown in pollution as a result of the coronavirus outbreak. While it will not have much of a direct effect on long term climate trends, Mayewski said some believe it could provide a look into what a post-fossil fuel […]

April 1, 2020 Scientists and archaeologists from the University of Nottingham, the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine and Harvard University discovered the highest levels of air pollution before the modern era occurred around 800 years ago. The study, published by Cambridge University Press’ Antiquity journal, includes data that represents the highest-resolution, most […]

Science magazine reported on a study that Paul Mayewski, director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, participated in that involved analyzing lead concentrations in ice core samples in correlation with major events in medieval England. Mayewski, in collaboration with Chris Loveluck, an archaeologist with the University of Nottingham, Michael McCormick, chair […]

The history of South America’s retreating glaciers at the end of the last ice age will be the focus of a three-year National Science Foundation study led by the University of Maine. Brenda Hall, UMaine professor of glacial geology in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences and the Climate Change Institute, will lead the […]

Medical researchers have utilized the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer as they attempt to predict the potential spread of COVID-19. Dr. Mohammad M. Sajadi, an M.D. and associate professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, led the study titled “Temperature, Humidity and Latitude Analysis to Predict Potential Spread and Seasonality […]

Four University of Maine students have been named winners of the 2020 Edith Patch Award. The award is given annually to undergraduate and graduate students who have demonstrated scholarship and service in the fields of science, agriculture, engineering, or environmental education, and who show promise for future contributions in their field. The award is named […]

Jacquelyn Gill, a paleoecologist and associate professor of climate science at the University of Maine, was interviewed for the Grist article, “Climate change is a catastrophe. But is it an ‘existential threat’?” Gill said, “I’m seeing more and more of this eco-anxiety immobilizing people to the point of just giving up, or saying there’s nothing […]