Climate Change Institute

Mainers can expect significant environmental changes in the next two decades due to increased greenhouse gas emissions and patterns of variability in the climate system, say University of Maine researchers Sean Birkel and Paul Mayewski. And they’ve produced a report — Coastal Maine Climate Futures — to provide a base for coastal Maine planners to […]

Paul Mayewski, professor and director of the Climate Change Institute (CCI) at the University of Maine, is a co-author on a study that was the focus of a University of Nottingham news release published by Phys.org. Mayewski collaborated with a team of researchers to study an ice core in the Swiss-Italian Alps that yielded evidence […]

Sierra magazine interviewed members of the University of Maine School of Climate Sciences — Annie Boucher, a master’s student and research assistant, and Seth Campbell, a research geophysicist and assistant professor — for the article “On the Juneau Icefield, Women Reimagine Who Does Science.” Boucher, who also is the program manager of the Juneau Icefield […]

In an article about the annual conference of the Maine Public Health Association, the Associated Press cited a report by Marcella Sorg, a research professor in the Department of Anthropology, Climate Change Institute and Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center at the University of Maine. This year’s conference will focus on programming and research about addiction […]

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 […]