Climate Change Institute

Dominic Winski helped secure the deepest and oldest ice core at the South Pole in order to understand past variations in the Earth’s climate. The oldest ice in the 5,745-foot-long (more than a mile deep) core is 54,302 years old, plus or minus 519 years, says the research assistant professor at the University of Maine […]

Bradfield Lyon, associate research professor with the University of Maine Climate Change Institute and School of Earth and Climate Sciences, spoke with the Portland Press Herald for the article, “Maine could lose loons and other bird species by end of century, Audubon reports.” Scientists with the National Audubon Society used data gathered by biologists and […]

Contributions made by Gordon Hamilton and Leigh Stearns are included in Science magazine’s article “Greenland’s Dying Ice,” which features Fiamma Straneo’s research of the Helheim Glacier. Hamilton, an associate research professor at the Climate Change Institute, died in 2016 conducting research in Antarctica. Stearns, an associate professor at the University of Kansas, earned her doctorate […]

Medical Daily interviewed Bradfield Lyon, associate research professor with the UMaine Climate Change Institute and School of Earth and Climate Sciences, about his recent study on heat waves. The average spatial extent of summer heat waves in the United States could be up to 80% larger than today if greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated, according […]

The Ice Drilling Design and Operations (IDDO) group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison designed and built the South Pole Ice Core (SPICE) drilling system, called the Intermediate Depth Drill. Based on a Danish drill called the Hans-Taunsen drill, the Intermediate Depth Drill was purpose-built for coring 1,500 meters of ice. The ice cores collected at […]

Phys.org published a University of Maine news release about a new study that found the average spatial extent of summer heat waves in the United States could be up to 80% larger than today if greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated. The study was led by Bradfield Lyon, associate research professor with the UMaine Climate Change […]

By the middle of this century, the average spatial extent of summer heat waves in the United States could be up to 80% larger than they are today if greenhouse emissions continue unabated, according to a new study led by a University of Maine climate scientist. Bradfield Lyon, associate research professor with the UMaine Climate […]

Erin McConnell, a 2019 CCI MS graduate, was recently awarded an internship at the the new Center for Scientific Evidence in Public Issues (EPI Center) at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Washington D.C.  The EPI Center brings clearly and strategically communicated scientific evidence on a select number of public issues […]

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 […]