Climate Change Institute

The lecture by Gregory Cushman on “Megaeruption of the Unknown Volcano of 1808-1809” originally scheduled for next Monday at 4 pm has been postponed due to speaker’s illness.   Through his research, Cushman has identified a volcanic eruption that resulted in climatic implications worldwide in the early 1800s. Although this event was documented in historical […]

Paul Mayewski, a professor and director of the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, and George Jacobson, state climatologist and professor emeritus of biology, ecology and climate change at UMaine, were quoted in a Morning Sentinel article about a climate change forum held at Kennebec Valley Community College. The pair spoke about the importance of […]

A team of University of Maine researchers studying diatom algae populations and their effects on climate change in Greenland was featured in a report by The National Science Foundation’s Science Nation. The researchers gathered samples of diatoms — a type of algae that respond rapidly to environmental change — to study how climate change is […]

University of Maine faculty will present at the annual meeting of the Eastern States Archaeological Federation (ESAF)/Maine Archaeological Society 10 . 31-Nov. 3 in South Portland. Approximately 400 archaeologists, scholars and historians from every state on the Eastern Seaboard are expected to attend. Raymond Pelletier, associate director of the Canadian-American Center at UMaine, will serve […]

An effort by the state to save a Popham Beach bathhouse with a temporary seawall of fallen trees and beach scraping is an example of an appropriate engineering endeavor to save beach-front property without harming the landscape, according to research by a University of Maine professor. Joseph Kelley, professor of marine geology in the University […]

The University of Maine Hudson Museum presents: Kon Tiki   A new Norwegian film, is based on the 1947 expedition of Thor Heyerdahl.  Heyerdahl’s epic 4,300 miles, 101 day voyage across the Pacific Ocean from South America to Polynesia on a balsa wood raft captured the popular imagination of the period.  Kon Tiki (2012) is […]

The 22nd Harold W. Borns, Jr. Symposium will take place on April 17-18, 2014 in Stodder Hall on the University of Maine campus. Additional program details will be posted as they become available.

INT-500   Introduction to Abrupt Climate Change   Session 2:   10 ober 9, 2013    5-8 pm      Stodder Hall    Room 27    (Program Flyer) Abrupt Climate Change and Aquatic Systems From kettle-lakes to the Southern Ocean, ACC can have dramatic impacts on aquatic ecosystems. Humans rely on many of these systems for water and other resources. […]

A new ice core was drilled ~73 m to bedrock at the Colle Gnifetti (CG) glacier saddle of the Monte Rosa Massif (4450 m.a.s.l.) on the Swiss-Italian border led by researchers from the Institut für Umweltphysik, University of Heidelberg (Germany) and the Physics Institute, University of Bern (Switzerland). Evaluation of this unique archive will also […]

Editor’s note: A narrated slideshow about the collaborative research by UMaine, Dartmouth and the University of New Hampshire is online. University of Maine climate change scientist Karl Kreutz seeks to glean insight into future sea level rise on the planet. To do that, this past spring he was part of a research team that hiked […]