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CCI director Paul Andrew Mayewski interviewed by Maine Monitor https://themainemonitor.org/witnessing-abrupt-climate-change/

Witnessing abrupt climate change ByMarina Schauffler September 10, 2023 Planetary change may now be outpacing both scientific understanding and political will. Ice cores from glaciers have revealed evidence of abrupt climate change in past geological eras. Similarly rapid change is now happening in Arctic air and sea-surface temperatures, raising concerns about worldwide repercussions. Photo courtesy […]

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Nature Communications article “Antarctic evidence for an abrupt northward shift of the Southern Hemisphere westerlies at 32 ka BP” by an international team led by Venugopal (GNS and Victoria University Wellington, New Zealand) including CCI Director P.A. Mayewski

Antarctic evidence for an abrupt northward shift of the Southern Hemisphere westerlies at 32 ka BP Abhijith U. Venugopal, Nancy A. N. Bertler, Jeffrey P. Severinghaus, Edward J. Brook, Giuseppe Cortese, James E. Lee, Thomas Blunier, Paul A. Mayewski, Helle A. Kjær, Lionel Carter, Michael E. Weber, Richard H. Levy, Rebecca L. Pyne & Marcus […]

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AP cites UMaine Climate Reanalyzer data in reporting about hottest recorded summer

The Associated Press cited data from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer in reporting about how 2023 was the hottest summer on record. The Portland Press Herald, Spectrum News NY 1 (New York), Union-Bulletin (Walla Walla, Washington), Traverse City Record-Eagle (Traverse City, Michigan), The Register Citizen (Torrington, Connecticut), Dayton Daily News (Dayton, […]

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Maine Public features Gill, Zaro in ‘Maine Calling’ show about the Anthropocene

Maine Public featured Jacquelyn Gill, associate professor of paleoecology and plant ecology with the University of Maine School of Biology and Ecology and Climate Change Institute, and Gregory Zaro, associate professor at the UMaine Department of Anthropology and Climate Change Institute, as panelists on the show ‘Maine Calling’ for a segment about the Anthropocene, the […]

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Gill speaks to Fast Company about heat pumps in Maine

Jacquelyn Gill, associate professor of paleoecology and plant ecology with the University of Maine School of Biology and Ecology and Climate Change Institute, spoke to Fast Company about how Maine got more than 100,000 residents to install heat pumps. Gill told Fast Company that this year’s muggy, hot summer convinced her to install a heat […]

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