Climate Change Institute

University of Maine professor Ivan Fernandez has been appointed to serve on the Maine Climate Council, and will serve as co-chair of the Science and Technical Subcommittee. Numerous other experts from UMaine and University of Maine at Machias have been invited to serve on the Science and Technical Subcommittee, as well as working groups. Climate […]

Ivan Fernandez, Distinguished Maine Professor in the Climate Change Institute and School of Forest Resources at the University of Maine, discussed the future of Maine’s climate on Maine Public. Fernandez, one of the authors of the report “Maine’s Climate Future,” predicts climate change will mean hot summers, warm winters, more rain and less snow, along […]

Cynthia Isenhour, a professor of anthropology and climate change at the University of Maine and faculty associate in the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions, was a recent guest on Maine Public’s “Maine Calling.” The radio show focused on how consumer choices affect climate change.

Miner chosen as Ambassador to inspire next generation of STEM pioneers September 9, 2019 Kimberley Rain Miner, a University of Maine research assistant professor in the Climate Change Institute and a physical scientist at the Geospatial Research Laboratory, has been selected as one of 125 AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) IF/THEN® Ambassadors. […]

Sean Birkel talked with WVII (Channel 7) for its story about Hurricane Dorian. Birkel, a research assistant professor at the Climate Change Institute and the Maine state climatologist, indicated that climate change may result in more extreme weather. “So, in a warming climate, warming ocean surface temperatures provide fuel and moisture for a hurricane, so […]

Katherine Allen talked with WVII (Channel 7) for the second part of its Summit to Shore series that focused on the Gulf of Maine, which is warming faster than 99% of the world’s oceans. The assistant professor in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences and Climate Change Institute studies the ocean’s history by analyzing […]

WVII (Channel 7) spoke with Caitlin McDonough Mackenzie, a postdoctoral research fellow with the University of Maine Climate Change Institute; Aaron Putnam, an assistant professor in UMaine’s School of Earth and Climate Sciences; and Peter Strand, a doctoral student at UMaine; for the first installment of its “Summit to Shore” series focusing on climate research […]

A group of 16 participants from the University of Maine, University of Southern Maine, and University of Maine School of Law traveled to Southwest Greenland for the ‘Arctic Futures Workshop’ in June 2019.Alice R. Kelley Team attends ‘Arctic Futures Workshop’ in Greenland September 3, 2019 Current Research News, IMPACT Newsletter, Research Reinvestment Fund Awards A […]

The Working Waterfront spoke with Katherine Allen, an assistant professor in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences and Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, about a five-year study she will lead focused on temperature change in the Gulf of Maine. Allen has received a more than $584,000 National Science Foundation CAREER Award […]

To understand industrial-age glacier recession and climate warming in New Zealand, an international research team led by the University of Maine will document the past 10,000 years of natural variations by studying the moraines of retreating glaciers and rings of temperature-sensitive trees in the Southern Hemisphere. The data will allow researchers to compare the Holocene-era […]