Climate Change Institute

Cindy Isenhour, an associate professor of anthropology and climate change at the University of Maine, was a recent guest on Maine Public’s “Maine Calling” radio show. The show’s topic was the Zero Waste movement that aims to change the entire system so that no waste goes to landfills.

The latest episode of The Maine Question asks whether studying extinct species can prepare us for the future. Jacquelyn Gill, who also studies survivors of the last ice age, thinks so. To travel back in time, this paleoecologist has crawled into a Siberian permafrost caves to examine a 40,000-year-old mummified lion cub. She’s also excited […]

Aaron Putnam, Peter Strand and Patricia Joyner are highlighted in a feature titled “How boulders in Mongolian mountains reveal the pace of climate change” in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Putnam is an assistant professor in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences and Climate Change Institute, Strand is a doctoral candidate and Joyner […]

GlacierHub detailed Heather Clifford and Alex More’s findings that Saharan dust storms are likely to intensify. Clifford is a graduate student with the Climate Change Institute and More is a research professor at the CCI, a researcher at Harvard University, and an associate professor in the School of Health Sciences at Long Island University in […]

Geophysicist Seth Campbell was featured in the PBS NewsHour story “A risky expedition to study the ‘doomsday glacier.’” The assistant professor in the Climate Change Institute  and School of Earth and Climate Sciences journeyed with a team to Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier — “the largest, most menacing source of rising sea levels all over the world […]

Strong Saharan dust storm reaches European Alps. Credit: NASA (MODIS) A new groundbreaking study shows that warming planet will make dust storms more intense in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. Using the highest-resolution continuous climate record ever published, the study explains the connections between dust storms, extended periods of drought, volcanoes, and warming in the […]

World-renowned climate scientist and explorer Paul Mayewski and glaciochemist Mariusz Potocki will give a free, public talk titled “The National Geographic and Rolex Perpetual Planet Extreme Mt. Everest Expedition,” 5:30–6:30 p.m. Friday, March 6 in the auditorium at the Hutchinson Center in Belfast. The goal of the two-month multinational, multidisciplinary National Geographic and Rolex Perpetual […]

Ten doctoral candidates will each receive one of three 2020–21 awards: the Janet Waldron Doctoral Research Fellowship, the Susan J. Hunter Teaching Assistantship, and the Chase Distinguished Research Assistantship. These awards will support the students in their research and professional development. Janet Waldron Doctoral Research Fellowship Shelby Helwig, Psychological Sciences Frankie St. Amand, Interdisciplinary Studies […]

The Bangor Daily News shared findings from the 2020 Maine’s Climate Future report authored by University of Maine scientists, with support from the Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park. The state’s climate is not only changing due to global temperatures increasing overall, but the rate at which it is changing is speeding up, according to […]

Nearly every climate-related parameter measured in Maine is accelerating, according to “Maine’s Climate Future — 2020 Update,” the latest report from the University of Maine. The rate of air and sea warming is increasing. Precipitation is increasing in intensity and volume, and sea level is not only rising, but rising faster than in the previous […]