Climate Change Institute

Paul Mayewski and Mariusz Potocki are highlighted in Skip Novak’s first-person account of a scientific mission in the Southern Ocean titled “Down For The Count” in the June issue of Yachting World. Mayewski directs the Climate Change Institute and advises Potocki, a glaciochemist and doctoral candidate. They ventured to the Sandwich Islands Archipelago aboard Pelagic […]

Meet a Climate Scientist Studying Clues Found in Ice If scientists know what happened 2 million years ago, they can better understand how our climate may be changing now. NBC Boston, Masschusetts https://www.nbcboston.com/on-air/as-seen-on/meet-a-climate-scientist-studying-clues-found-in-ice/2124612/  

The awards keep coming for Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie, a David H. Smith Conservation Research Fellow at the Climate Change Institute. The New England Botanical Club announced that her paper, “Common garden experiments as a dynamic tool for ecological studies of alpine plants and communities in eastern North America,” has received the Merritt Lyndon Fernald Award […]

Principles of Glacier Mechanics 3rd Edition AUTHOR: Roger LeB. Hooke, University of Maine, Orono DATE PUBLISHED: January 2020 “The third edition of this successful textbook will supply advanced undergraduate and graduate students with the tools they need to understand modern glaciological research. Practicing glacial geologists and glaciologists will also find the volume useful as a […]

Dr. Paul Clement Dalrymple. PORT CLYDE — Dr. Paul Clement Dalrymple, 96, died peacefully, Friday, April 24, 2020 at the Knox Center for Long Term Care in Rockland. Born in Rockland, November 21, 1923, he was the son of Charles and Marion Skinner Dalrymple. Paul attended and graduated from Worcester Classical High School in 1941. […]

Kreutz to examine 10,000 year-old ice to learn more about Pacific Ocean drivers of Arctic warming May 11, 2020 Karl Kreutz and colleagues previously discovered from ice cores from Alaska’s Mount Hunter that a doubling of snow accumulation and 60-fold increase in summer melt since the 1850s — the industrial era — is linked to […]

Chemical & Engineering News interviewed Kimberley Rain Miner, research assistant professor with the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, for the article titled “CFC replacements are a source of persistent organic pollution in the Arctic.” Researchers have discovered short-chain compounds of polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), a type of organic pollutant, in ice cores in the Arctic, […]

University of Maine Climate Change Institute director Paul Mayewski and Charles Norchi, Benjamin Thompson Professor of Law at the University of Maine School of Law and Fulbright-Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Iceland) Arctic Scholar co-authored the cover story “COVID-19 and climate change: the planet’s twin crises” in Global Geneva, an independent, international print and online journalism publication […]

How has COVID-19 impacted the environment? Find out in this week’s episode of “The Maine Question.” During the devastating coronavirus pandemic, the world’s economy has slowed, which has brought about some profound changes. Sean Birkel, research assistant professor with the Climate Change Institute and the Maine State Climatologist, talks about what happens when there’s less […]

Heather Clifford’s groundbreaking study that found a warming planet will make dust storms more intense in the Mediterranean, which will impact glaciers, air quality and frequency of North Atlantic hurricanes, was among the top 10% of the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres’ most downloaded papers published between January 2018 and December 2019. Clifford is a […]