Climate Change Institute

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 […]

Susan Elias has won the Susan Hunter President’s Research Impact Award for 2018 for her work on “Deer Tick Phenology and Warming Climate in Maine, USA” (advised by Kirk Maasch). Susan Elias has also been awarded a Chase Distinguished Research Assistantship for AY2018/2018.

Have you ever thought about what it might be like to sit at a table of nearly 200 negotiators representing countries from all over the world negotiating about climate policy? University of Maine graduate students, Anna McGinn and Will Kochtitzky, who attended the annual United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany, last November, will […]

Dr. Jasmine Saros, a professor of paleolimnology and lake ecology in the School of Biology and Ecology, was awarded the College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture at the University of Maine’s 2018 Outstanding Research Award. The award was presented at the college’s annual Celebration of Excellence on April 18. The college also awarded the […]

April 24, 2018 University of Maine faculty and graduate students will present wide-ranging research at the 26th annual Harold W. Borns Jr. Symposium that sheds light on how climate change affects the state and its residents. Topics of the emerging climate change studies include whether a temperature-related increase in toxic algal blooms could increase the […]

Erin McConnell, CCI graduate student, was awarded a Maine Space Grant Consortium (MSGC) Graduate Fellowship at the 2018 Student Symposium. Erin is advised by Karl Kreutz.

William Kochtitzky was awarded the Dean of Graduate School Undergraduate Mentor Award – Third Place at the 2018 UMaine Student Symposium for his research work on “What Causes Glaciers to Destable”. William Kochtitsky is advised by Karl Kreutz.

April 24, 2018 The University of Maine was again well-represented at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA), held in Washington, D.C. from April 11–15. Alice Kelley, a geoarchaeologist and instructor in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences, Climate Change Institute (CCI), and Anthropology Department, co-organized the session, “Shell Middens: Formation, […]