Climate Change Institute

The Christian Science Monitor cited data from the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute in the article “Global Warming? Public attitudes often at mercy of the weather, study finds.” The article stated when much of North America had unusually cold weather, other areas such as the West Coast of the United States, eastern Asia and […]

Paul Mayewski, a professor and director of the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, spoke to NPR for a segment titled “Can’t stand the cold snap? Don’t go to Antarctica.” Mayewski was interviewed by phone from Kennedy Airport where he was on his way to Antarctica to study ice cores, columns of frozen water that […]

Kurt Rademaker (MS in Quaternary and Climate Studies 2006, IPhD in Quaternary Archaeology 2012) has won the Tübingen Prize for Ice Age Research (aka the Tübingen Research Prize in Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology). This major international prize is open to recent doctoral recipients (last 3 years) world-wide in a range of disciplines that includes […]

Two circular bands of winds called the westerlies are being changed by human-caused global warming. The consequences from these changes could become quite large and come on suddenly – quite the surprise for anyone who still thinks climate change is a future “slow” problem. In the words of Paul Mayewski, director of the University of […]

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 […]