Climate Change Institute

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 […]

Jacquelyn Gill, an associate professor of paleoecology and plant ecology at the University of Maine, spoke with Maine Public for a story titled “Humans may be the ultimate invasive. This Maine scientist sees a better path ahead.” Gill said “if we could take a page from many Indigenous cultures throughout the world, and rather than […]

WBUR interviewed Bonnie Newsom, University of Maine associate professor of anthropology, about the Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science (CBIKS) for a segment of the show “On Point.” The center, based at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, will conduct transdisciplinary, placed-based research projects that intertwine Native and Western knowledge systems in collaboration with Indigenous […]

Climate on Tap: Tales of UMaine’s Climate Change Institute Surviving Change: The Persistence of a 3,000-yr-old City OCT. 18, 2023 5:30 – 6:30 PM NOCTURNEM DRAFT HOUSE, 56 MAIN ST, BANGOR, ME   JOIN archaeologist Gregory Zaro as he peels back the urban layers of the ancient city of Zadar along Croatia’s Adriatic coast to […]

The Milwaukee Independent cited data from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer indicating that the daily September temperatures were, “higher than what has been recorded before for this time of year.”

What is 10Green? 10Green is a website that provides U.S. air quality data visualization tools and information on human health impacts. The site features an interactive Air Quality Mapper, where users can explore county-level, annual air quality measures from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for data onward from 1980. These measures include the Air Quality […]