Climate Change Institute

  Two different climate scenarios appear plausible for Antarctica in the 21st century, says Paul Mayewski, director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine. An examination of climate models as well as records of climate change developed through ice cores reveal a potential for future climate surprises in the Southern Hemisphere, he […]

  4,000-year-old artifacts shed light on early Native Americans   Dr. Brian Robinson photographing an old land surface under the beach at the dig site in Seabrook, where possible evidence of climate change was discovered this summer. Photo by Sky Heller SEABROOK — New archaeological findings on land protected by Seabrook Station nuclear power plant […]

    Climate RideThis map illustrates the inaugural Climate Ride Northeast will be a 320-mile journey from Bar Harbor to Boston. The five-day ride will run 09 . 17-21, and it is expected to raise $400,000 to support organizations throughout the country that are involved in environmental causes and cycling advocacy.   By Aislinn Sarnacki, […]

Ana Cecillia Mauricio   In the lower Chao Valley on the north coast of Peru, University of Maine graduate student Ana Cecilia Mauricio is uncovering history. Mauricio defended her thesis this past 05 and is expected to graduate from the University of Maine with her Ph.D. in geoarcheology in August 2015. Her research focused on […]

Paul Mayewski, director of the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, was included in WABI-TV5 coverage of the Maine Chapter of the Fulbright Association’s presentations on the Arctic and climate change in Castine (http://wabi.tv/2015/07/10/arctic-climate-change-impacting-maine/). “We are already experiencing great change and that great change affects our health and our wealth,” said Mayewski. His  talk was […]

Abstract: The grounding line of the ice sheet in the Ross Sea, Antarctica, retreated between the Last Glacial Maximum and the present. However, the timing of the retreat and the interplay of factors controlling ice stability in this region1 remain uncertain. Here we use 180 radiocarbon dates to reconstruct the chronology of moraine construction on […]

Paul Mayewski and Dan Dixon are on thin ice. Mayewski, director of the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, and Dixon, a research assistant professor with CCI, are featured in the shortened version of the award-winning film “Thin Ice: The Inside Story of Climate Science,” that MPBN will broadcast at 2 p.m. July 12. The […]

  Woolly mammoths that 12,000 years ago roamed the treeless tundra that is now Maine are gone, but unique landscape features formed during the retreat of a continental glacial ice sheet in that epoch remain. Down East, Maine is an outdoor historical museum. And thanks to a collaboration between Hal Borns and Josh Plourde, Ice […]

Paul Mayewski has been named one of the 50 bold visionaries defining the state in the July issue of Maine magazine. The director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine was included in the third annual list for his four decades of exploration aimed at understanding “why and how the climate is […]

The Ellsworth American reported Paul Mayewski, director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, is scheduled to speak at an educational event focused on the Arctic and climate change in Castine. The Maine Chapter of the Fulbright Association will host a morning of presentations on the Arctic, climate change and the Fulbright […]