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Preventing Chemical Release in Hurricanes Kimberley MIner, Nicole Wayant, and Heather Ward Science  12 Oct 2018: Vol. 362, Issue 6411, pp. 166 DOI: 10.1126/science.aav3822 http://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6411/166 In this Letter, Kimberley Miner and colleagues highlight the increased risk of post-disaster chemical release to coastal communities, which are poised to experience more frequent and severe storms as a […]

The relationship between community resilience and reuse markets is the focus of a recently funded project led by University of Maine researchers. Cynthia Isenhour, a professor of anthropology and climate change, and Andrew Crawley, a professor of regional economic development, were awarded $265,147 from the National Science Foundation to examine Maine’s reuse markets and their […]

5,000 Miles From Home, UMaine Professor Narrowly Avoided Death In Siberia UMaine climate science professor Jacquelyn Gill pictured on site in Siberia, during the filming of a documentary about ice age fossils. University of Maine climate science professor Jacquelyn Gill knew that the chance to spend 10 days in the Siberian wilderness shooting a documentary […]

Dr. Ivan Fernandez will participate in a panel discussion sponsored by the Citizens’ Climate Lobby entitled:  Losing Winter:  Climate Change in Ski Country and What We Can Do About It on Saturday on Oct. 6th at 3 pm at the Sugarloaf Outdoor Center, Carrabasset Valley, Maine.  Other featured panelists include: Dr. Paul Perkins (Citizen’s Climate […]

University of Maine graduate students are partnering with schools across Maine to host World Climate Interactive Negotiation Simulation (WCS) activities. The simulation activity was developed by the nongovernmental organization Climate Interactive and involves a role play in which participants act as country delegates and work together to negotiate a global climate agreement. The simulation emulates […]

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety Volume 166, 30 December 2018, Pages 251-258 K. R. Miner, C. Bogdal, P. Pavlova, C. Steinlin, and K. J. Kreutz Abstract Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are entrained within glaciers globally, reemerging in many alpine ecosystems. Despite available data on POP flux from glaciers, a study of human health risk caused by POPs released in glacial […]

Business Insider and Broadway World reported the short documentary series “Let Science Speak” premiered Sept. 20 during the Tribeca TV Festival. The six-part series aims to inform viewers about the importance of science, and to humanize scientists and show how their work is connected to relatable personal values like innovation and civic duty, the articles […]

Sean Birkel, Paul Mayewski, Kirk Maasch, Andrei Kurbatov, and Bradfield Lyon npj Climate and Atmospheric Science volume 1, Article number: 24 (2018) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41612-018-0036-6 The Atlantic multidecadal oscillation (AMO) is a 60–70 year pattern of sea-surface temperature (SST) variability in the North Atlantic commonly ascribed to internal ocean dynamics and changes in northward heat transport. Recent modeling studies, however, […]

Alexander More, a historian and climate scientist at Harvard University and the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, was quoted in the New York Times article, “Europe’s triumphs and troubles are written in Swiss ice.” As plague swept through Europe in the mid-1300s, wiping out more than a third of the region’s population, […]

K.M. Schild, C.E. Renshaw, D.I, Benn, A. Luckman, R.L. Hawley, P. How, L. Trusel, F.R. Cottier, A. Pramanik, and N.R.J. Hulton. First published: 22 August 2018 https://doi.org/10.1029/2017JF004520 Abstract Tidewater glacier calving provides the most direct mechanism of ice transfer from land to the ocean. However, the physical melt processes influencing calving remain challenging to constrain. In […]