Climate Change Institute

Bradfield Lyon, an associate research professor in climate analysis at the University of Maine, spoke with National Geographic for the article, “The dangers of dzud, Mongolia’s lethal winters.” For the second time this decade, extreme winter conditions on the Mongolian steppe caused extensive die-offs of animals that traditional herding communities rely on for their survival, […]

Dr. Bradfield Lyon contributed to the National Geographic article (April 2018) entitled: The Danges of Dzud, Mongolia’s Lethal Winters. Nomadic herders of the Mongolian steppe are at the mercy of these dramatic winters, and scientists are struggling to under the lethal phenomenon.  Link to article.

During March of 2018, Dr. Paul A. Mayewski delivered a presentation entitled: Journey Into Climate at the Appalachian State University in North Carolina.

A fisheries scientist whose research informs commercial and recreational resource management, a popular mechanical engineering professor whose classroom contributions include development of new curricula and educational software, and a soil scientist whose leadership and expertise benefit policymakers and the public are the recipients of the University of Maine’s top faculty honors this year. Yong Chen, […]

Terry Hughes, 80, died March 10 at his home in Ft. Pierre, Florida. In 1974, Hughes began a joint appointment at the University of Maine in the Department of Geological Sciences (now the Department of Earth Sciences) and the Institute for Quaternary Studies (now the Climate Change Institute). His glaciological and climate research was published […]

Every year, representatives from ~195 countries gather at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s Conference of the Parties (COP). Last year, two CCI graduate students and two faculty members attended COP23 in Bonn, Germany. From their experience, coupled with their attendance at previous COPs, CCI students Anna McGinn and Will Kochtitzky wrote a […]

Daily Beast featured the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer in the article, “Four reasons snowy springs don’t disprove global warming.” The article states that a small swath of land from Maine to Georgia is not representative of the entire Earth’s surface, and the warming effects of global climate disruption have not been […]

Newsweek, USA Today, EcoWatch, Xinhua News Agency and Eos: Earth and Space Science News reported on new research that found glaciers in a Alaska’s Denali National Park are melting faster than any time in the past 400 years — and summer temperatures are starting to climb. The research, which was published in the American Geophysical […]

Environmental Research Letters has selected the article “Temperature suitability for malaria climbing the Ethiopian Highlands” by Bradfield Lyon and co-authors for its Highlights of 2017 collection. The 30 articles were chosen on the basis of reviewer and editor endorsement, as well as significance, scientific impact and breadth of appeal. Lyon is an associate research professor […]