Climate Change Institute

Bangor Daily News reported on efforts by researchers at the University of Maine to find remains of the building where fraternity brothers kept live bears who played UMaine mascot Bananas T. Bear until 1966. Professor of anthropology and climate change Daniel Sandweiss and director of the Hudson Museum Gretchen Faulkner led a ten-person team to […]

This is Money, an affiliation of the Daily Mail, cited a data visualization from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer. The global average temperature was at its highest level on record for Thursday, Jan. 18, at 13.1 C.

The Wall Street Journal interviewed University of Maine professor of anthropology and climate studies Daniel Sandweiss on the legitimacy of an advanced ancient civilization discussed in a documentary. Sandweiss and other researchers have said evidence doesn’t exist for the civilization in “Ancient Apocalypse” and have rebutted its claim as a factual documentary. 

Italy 24 News cited a visual from University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer on temperature anomalies worldwide for Tuesday, Jan. 16.

Environmental Monitor highlighted how the University of Maine Climate Change Institute helped design and deploy a device that gathers data on Acadia National Park waters. The article explains the process and importance of gathering information on national parks to learn about changes potentially brought on by climate change and pollution. 

Atmosphere, volume 13(5), 690 (2022) https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos13050690   Abstract Wild blueberries in Maine, USA are facing threats from our changing climate. While summer climate variations have been affecting this important commercial crop directly, significant climate variations in other seasons also can be potentially detrimental to blueberry production. Therefore, we analyzed annual and seasonal climate trends (temperature, […]

Bonnie Newsom, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Maine, spoke with ProPublica for an article titled “Tribes in Maine Spent Decades Fighting to Rebury Ancestral Remains. Harvard Resisted Them at Nearly Every Turn.” The Maine Monitor, Maine Public and the Bangor Daily News shared the ProPublica report.

Jacquelyn Gill, an associate professor of paleoecology and plant ecology at the University of Maine, spoke to the Times of India about plant adaptations to climate change.

The Washington Post interviewed Jacquelyn Gill, an associate professor of paleoecology and plant ecology at the University of Maine, about discussing climate change as an emergency. When it comes to terms like “climate emergency,” Gill said, “it’s a little bit of strategy and a lot of honesty.” Gill also said in regards to global warming, […]

Darren Ranco, a professor of anthropology and the chair of Native American Programs at the University of Maine, and Natalie Michelle, a UMaine postdoc and research fellow with the University of Massachusetts Amherst, spoke with Science magazine for a story about the Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science (CBIKS). The center, based at the […]