Climate Change Institute

The University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer was featured in News Center Maine and Daily Express reports on heat records worldwide. Nearly the entire planet was labeled red this week, meaning most of the world experienced hotter-than-average temperatures for late July. The effects of the heatwave include wildfires in Greece, forest fires in […]

WMTW (Channel 8 in Portland) quoted Sean Birkel, Maine’s state climatologist and a research assistant professor at the University of Maine, and Ellen Mallory, an associate professor with the Cooperative Extension and the School of Food and Agriculture at UMaine, in a report on Maine’s climate future. The average temperature in Maine has risen by […]

The Bangor Daily News cited a 2015 University of Maine Climate Change Institute report on Maine’s climate future in the op-ed “Reducing Maine’s carbon emissions now will pay off later.” The report found flood zones in Maine have expanded, the habitat for lobsters is moving north, and ticks and Lyme disease have an increasing presence […]

Sapiens reported on archaeological research in Peru by Daniel Sandweiss, a professor of anthropology and quaternary and climate studies at the University of Maine, and Kurt Rademaker, a UMaine alumnus and archaeologist with Northern Illinois University. Sapiens is a journal published by Wenner Gren, a large foundation supporting anthropology. Sandweiss and Rademaker, along with other […]

Gizmodo, Quartz and LabRoots reported on a new study published in Geophysical Research Letters by researchers at the University of Washington and University of Maine. The current record for a continuous ice core is 800,000 years, but the new research shows an even older continuous core may exist deep within the Allan Hills Blue Ice […]

Cindy Isenhour, an assistant professor of anthropology and climate change at the University of Maine and a cooperating faculty member at the Climate Change Institute, was interviewed by News Center Maine for a report on reducing plastic straw waste. Many restaurants in Maine, from Portland to Bar Harbor, are looking for alternatives to plastic straws […]

Research by Nicholas Richmond, a master’s student from the Univeristy of Maine, has recently been selected by American Geophysical Union as the top Graduate virtual poster in 2018. Nick’s project was titled: “3D Bedrock Channel Evolution with Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Coupled to a Finite Element Earth.” Link to AGU announcement

Explaining the dynamics of an ice age landscape to a classroom of middle-schoolers can be a daunting challenge for teachers. Researchers in the lab examine evidence such as pollen and other tiny fossils, and particulate matter contained in sediment core samples to “see” what the ancient landscape once was. But how can this data be […]

Paul Mayewski speaks about storm surges and sea level rise in an interview for NEXT New England Podcast. Episode 94  

News Center Maine spoke with Kirk Maasch, a professor in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences and the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, and Susan Elias, a UMaine Ph.D. candidate and vector-borne disease ecologist, for a report about the start of Maine’s tick season. Experts say changes in the environment are […]