Climate Change Institute

The Ellsworth American quoted Cynthia Isenhour, an assistant professor of anthropology and climate change at the University of Maine, in an article about the opening of Fiberight waste processing facility in Hampden, which will include recycling. Fiberight will have a sorting process that will be able to recover recyclables that have been thrown in the […]

Thirty-four University of Maine faculty have received tenure and/or promotion. The faculty members were nominated by UMaine President Joan Ferrini-Mundy based on a peer and administrative review of their successful teaching, research and public service, and approved by the University of Maine System Board of Trustees. “We are extremely proud of our world-class faculty who […]

Aaron Putnam, George H. Denton assistant professor in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences at the University of Maine, wrote an obituary for Wallace “Wally” Smith Broecker that was published in Science magazine. Putnam wrote Broecker, who died Feb. 18 at the age of 87, was “one of the most influential Earth scientists of […]

Yale Climate Connections quoted and cited research by Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie, a researcher at the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, in the article “In nature, premature springs are creating new winners and losers.” The average spring in the eastern United States is starting earlier as a result of warming temperatures. Some plants and animals […]

The Bangor Daily News interviewed Sean Birkel, Maine State Climatologist and a research assistant professor at the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, for the article “Why Maine is seeing more record high temperatures.” According to a study by the Associated Press, Maine has broken five daytime record high temperatures for every record low temperature […]

Maine Public quoted Ivan Fernandez, Distinguished Maine Professor in the Climate Change Institute and School of Forest Resources at the University of Maine, in the report “New Bill Aims to Drastically Reduce Maine’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions.” Scientists, activists and others are supporting a bill that would dramatically reduce Maine’s greenhouse gas emissions over the next […]

Dr. Ivan Fernandez provided testimony before the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources regarding a set of climate change bills before the 129th Legislature in Augusta, March 13.

National Park Service managers wanted to identify plants that might be vulnerable in Acadia National Park, but they didn’t have decades of flowering and leaf-out observations for researchers to analyze. So Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie and colleagues took an innovative approach. In four years, they collectively hiked three mountains — Cadillac, Pemetic and Sargent — in […]

Daniel Sandweiss, a professor of anthropology and quaternary and climate studies at the University of Maine, was featured in Season 3, Episode 2 of the Science Channel documentary series “Unearthed.” The episode is titled “Lost Pyramids of the Americas.”

Daniel Sandweiss, professor of anthropology and climate studies, served as Society for American Archaeology board liaison to the SAA Task Force on Guidelines for Promotion and Tenure for Archaeologists in Diverse Academic Roles. A news release about the guidelines is online.