Climate Change Institute

University of Maine Climate Change Institute scientists Paul Mayewski, Sean Birkel and Ivan Fernandez shared their research about climate change with Keith Shortall on MPBN’s Maine Calling, an interactive radio program.

Video Link:   Video Transcript Paul Mayewski: Climate change has always happened. There are natural climate changes and then today, we of course have the dramatically added influence of human activity. Weather in general make, those are the building blocks of climate, so you take the weather over a full year, several years and that […]

Maximum Impact The Federal Emergency Management Agency is monitoring infrastructure repair efforts around Atlantic City, New Jersey, where Superstorm Sandy killed 73 and caused billions of dollars in damage when it barreled ashore a little more than two years ago. In January, Brian Olsen, assistant professor of biology and ecology, will start gauging the restoration […]

Link to World Ocean Observatory – Radio Episode Radio Transcript — Externality Episode I’m Peter Neill, Director of the World Ocean Observatory. Externality refers to what lies outside a given perimeter; in modern parlance, it often refers to a disconnected or unconsidered consequence, sometimes positive, sometimes not, of a particular action. For example, a factory […]

http://www.victoria.ac.nz/news/2014/thin-ice-heading-for-united-states-television-screens Thin Ice heading for United States television screens The success of a Victoria University of Wellington fundraising campaign means the screening of Thin Ice—the Inside Story of Climate Science on United States television next year could coincide with a peak in international interest in dealing with the issue of global warming. 2014-November-27 As a […]

An international group dedicated to advancing science for the benefit of all people is honoring Daniel H. Sandweiss, an archaeologist at the University of Maine. The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) elected Sandweiss a Fellow for his distinguished contributions to archaeology. Alan Leshner, CEO and executive publisher of Science, says Sandweiss’ notable […]

PBS NewsHour reported on research by University of Maine paleoclimatologist Karl Kreutz in a video titled “Scientists read layers of Alaska’s ice and snow to track climate change.” With support from the National Science Foundation, Kreutz and his team are working to reconstruct the climate history of the area around Alaska’s Denali National Park over […]

The Falklands Islands are a biodiversity hotspot in the South Atlantic, home to some of the most important penguin rookeries in the world. The local economy relies on a delicate balance between eco-tourism, fishing, and sheep grazing that 05 be threatened with climate change, sea level rise, and off-shore oil drilling. The Paleoecology Lab at […]

In the southern Peruvian Andes, an archaeological team led by researchers at the University of Maine has documented the highest altitude ice age human occupation anywhere in the world — nearly 4,500 meters above sea level (masl). Their discoveries date high-altitude human habitation nearly a millennium earlier than previously documented. Despite cold temperatures, high solar […]

Read the story More in REUTERS: Old, cold and bold: Ice Age people dwelled high in Peru’s Andes Wall street Journal: Archaeologists in Peruvian Andes Find Highest Known Ice Age Settlement The Boston Globe: Highest altitude settlements from ice age discovered