Climate Change Institute

The University of Maine earned its first STARS Silver Rating from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) for recycling and composting nearly half of its waste; promoting student life opportunities, including a Green Living and Learning dorm floor; reducing water consumption by 20 percent per campus user; and more. STARS, […]

The Harold W. Borns, Jr. Symposium is an annual event that features presentations and discussion by Climate Change Institute graduate students and faculty on emerging research and topics related to global environmental change.   Below is a listing of the 2019 Borns Symposium awardees: The Churchill Award for Outstanding Exploration: Anna McGinn Best Student Poster Award […]

It can be difficult to communicate climate change’s effects on the Arctic. After all, the news often isn’t great: The region continues to see record-high temperatures and record-low ice, with the fallout from these changes threatening to span the globe and no signs of improvement on the horizon. So on Sunday night, scientists in Washington, […]

Maine 4-H Follow a Researcher® returns for a sixth season with University of Maine graduate student researchers. From 1–2 p.m. May 2, UMaine Earth and climate sciences master’s student Mariama Dryak will be available on Twitter to chat with students and teachers about her studies using satellites to track iceberg melt in Antarctica. Dryak will […]

Dr. Ivan Fernandez attends Governor Janet Mills press conference announcing the establishment of the Maine Climate Council. https://www.maine.gov/governor/mills/news/governor-mills-introduces-bill-establish-maine-climate-council-2019-04-30

Smart Water Magazine published a University of Maine news release on a study of dissolved organic carbon in Maine lakes by Kate Warner and Jasmine Saros, researchers in UMaine’s Climate Change Institute and School of Biology and Ecology. The study monitored concentrations of dissolved organic carbon in Maine lakes before and after severe rainstorms and […]

VillageSoup advanced a talk by Alice Kelley, an instructor in the University of Maine School of Earth and Climate Science and research associate professor in the Climate Change Institute. Kelley will discuss Maine’s shell middens at noon April 30 at Merryspring Nature Center in Camden. The talk will focus on the record the middens archive […]

Mount Desert Islander reported Katie Glover, a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, will be among the scheduled speakers at the Downeast Climate March in Bar Harbor from 1–3 p.m. April 27. Organized by Indivisible MDI, the march will begin on the Village Green, move to the town pier and […]

AUGUSTA — For Gov. Janet Mills, climate change isn’t just a matter of political debate. For her, it’s an issue that cuts instead to the heart of what Maine is all about. In one recent speech, the 71-year-old Mills wondered if Mainers in the not-too-distant future “may not know the state we call home” if […]

Dr. Brenda Hall, a professor of glacial geology in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences and Climate Change Institute, was awarded the College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture at the University of Maine’s 2019 Outstanding Research Award. The award was presented at the college’s annual Celebration of Excellence on April 17. The college […]