Climate Change Institute

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 […]

Second Century Stewardship reported three University of Maine faculty members have been awarded fellowships to conduct research in Acadia National Park. The faculty members are Rachel Fowler, laboratory coordinator with the School of Biology and Ecology; Bonnie Newsom, assistant professor of anthropology; and Jay Wason, assistant professor of forest ecosystem physiology. Fowler aims to develop […]

Live Science interviewed Jacquelyn Gill, an associate professor of terrestrial paleoecology at the University of Maine School of Biology and Ecology and the Climate Change Institute, for the article “Why celebrate Earth Day? Here are 12 reasons.” Scientists interviewed for the article shared amazing facts about the planet for the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. […]

The Antarctican Society publishes a remembrance of Dr. Harold W. Borns Jr. in its April 2020 edition.

ORONO (BDN) — Next time you go outside in Maine, you may want to take a good look at the sky. Experts say that in the past few weeks, the air has become cleaner, and the atmosphere has become noticeably clearer. These changes have been linked to the nationwide shutdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, […]

Abigail Mann is the recipient of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Award for 2020. This award recognizes students who demonstrate excellence in research and/or creative activity over the course of his/her graduate studies. The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Award criteria includes: • Evidence of ability […]

  The Ecological Society of America named Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie a recipient of the George Mercer Award that recognizes outstanding recently published ecological research by scientists 40 years old and younger. The postdoctoral fellow at the University of Maine shares the award with Mason Heberling, who is the study’s first author, and with co-authors Jason […]

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the world’s most-cited multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal, has published four articles by University of Maine researchers focusing on angles of the relationship between archaeology, climate change and the human experience as part of a Special Feature. By combining these fields of study, the teams hope to bring […]

University of Missouri System President Mun Choi and the Board of Curators named Kristin Sobolik the new chancellor of the University of Missouri–St. Louis on Thursday. (Photo by August Jennewein)   In three years, Interim Chancellor and Provost Kristin Sobolik has had an outsized impact on the University of Missouri–St. Louis as an agent of […]