Climate Change Institute

The Climate Adaptation Fellowship, a peer-to-peer learning program designed to build climate resilience across farms, forests and communities, has launched its official website. According to a news release about the initiative, the Climate Adaptation Fellowship provides “a curriculum designed to give farmers, foresters, and advisors the information they need to adapt to climate change, bring […]

Ivan Fernandez, a University of Maine professor of soil science and forest resources, spoke with The Ellsworth American for an article looking at what Gov. Janet Mills’ carbon-neutral pledge means for Hancock and Washington counties. “Conservation [of energy] is the low-hanging fruit,” said Fernandez, Distinguished Maine Professor in the School of Forest Resources, Climate Change […]

Paul Mayewski, Distinguished Maine Professor in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences and director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, was cited in a News Center Maine report about Eastern Equine Encephalitis, or EEE. The rare, mosquito-borne virus can be deadly. In Maine, there have been no human cases, but […]

Glen Koehler, an associate scientist with University of Maine Cooperative Extension, and Ivan Fernandez, a professor of soil science at UMaine, were cited in the latest column in the Portland Press Herald “Maine Gardener” series. The article, “Climate change comes to your own backyard,” looked at what gardeners can do to keep plants healthy and […]

The kickoff meeting of the Maine Climate Council was Sept. 26 in Hallowell. A video of the meeting is online. It includes presentations by Ivan Fernandez, UMaine professor of soil science and Distinguished Maine Professor in the School of Forest Resources, Climate Change Institute, and School of Food and Agriculture, and other members of the council, […]

University of Maine paleoecologist Jacquelyn Gill talked about her experiences exploring a permafrost cave in Siberia, as well as her medical scare there, with Rob Caldwell on News Center Maine’s 207. Gill was in Siberia in September 2018 to film “Lost Beasts of the Ice Age” for the Science Channel. She and other leading scientists […]

Maine Public talked with Ivan Fernandez after the first meeting of the Maine Climate Council on Thursday. Fernandez, a University of Maine soil and forest scientist, said work on climate change is resuming at the state level. “Some faces here that I haven’t seen in about eight years,” Fernandez said. “We can continue our work.” […]

A professor of anthropology and climate change at the University of Maine is collaborating on a multidisciplinary project to address waste through circular economy design. Cynthia Isenhour is one of several researchers from five universities working on the project led by the University of Pittsburgh’s Swanson School of Engineering and the Mascaro Center for Sustainable […]

Karl Kreutz, professor in the Climate Change Institute and the School of Earth and Climate Sciences, attended the annual meeting of the University of the Arctic (UArctic) in Stockholm, Sweden from Sept. 18–20. The University of Maine Climate Change Institute is a member of UArctic — a cooperative network of universities, colleges, research institutes and […]

The Bangor Daily News covered its sold-out “Bangor Daily Brews: Climate change and Maine’s next 200 years” event featuring University of Maine Climate Change Institute researchers Paul Mayewski, Sean Birkel and Cynthia Isenhour. “I think for a long time the media was treating this [climate change] as a situation in which there were two sides, […]