Climate Change Institute

CCI is about to launch an interactive tool  10Green  that provides a comprehensive assessment of the health of your environment. 10Green leverages decades of ice core research that has allowed us to understand how the chemistry of Earth’s atmosphere has changed as a consequence of human activities. For more details go to: http://climatechange.umaine.edu/icecores/ 10Green uses […]

The Breathe Project is a coalition of residents, businesses, government and many other groups in southwestern Pennsylvania that are working together to clean up our air for the health of our families and economy. Despite improvements over the past few decades, the region’s air still ranks among the worst in the nation, exacerbating asthma and causing other […]

A recent expedition to Chile by Paul Mayewski, director of UMaine’s Climate Change Institute, and a team of other UMaine scientists, was featured in the Bangor Daily News. The article noted the group drilled ice cores in a crater inside an active volcano. Mayewski told the BDN the region is important because the glaciers there […]

Gordon Hamilton, an associate professor in UMaine’s Climate Change Institute, was quoted in a Boston Herald story about the possible reasons behind the region’s unseasonably warm weather. Hamilton said although climatic phenomenon are partly to blame for the current jet stream trajectory and warm air flow, the bigger cause of the current weather pattern is […]

The Fate of Greenland: Lessons from Abrupt Climate Change (Denton et al.) has won the 2011 American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE Award) in the Earth Sciences category (http://www.proseawards.com/current-winners.html). The PROSE Awards are presented by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division of the Association of American Publishers (AAP) and annually recognize […]

The website Adventures in Climate Change is running all of the blog entries about a team of scientists from the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute who are on an expedition in the Tupungatito Glacier, located in a volcanic crater at an elevation of 19,000 feet in the Andes Mountains in Chile. Paul Mayewski, director […]

Kristin Sobolik of UMaine’s Department of Anthropology and Climate Change Institute was noted in a story on the website io9.com for her work in paleofecal research. The story said there was a big breakthrough in human DNA extraction when Sobolik suggested samples found in Hinds Cave in Texas be tested.

September 12, 2012 – 1:00 – 2:00 PM; Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall, Room 165 Jeffrey Thaler, ESQ, Visiting Professor of Energy Policy, Law & Ethics, University of Maine & Maine Law School As the World Burns:  From Climate Science to Renewable Energy Policy and Justice Jeff Thaler is the University of Maine’s first Visiting Professor […]

 A team of scientists from the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute is currently on an expedition in Chilé, traveling to the Tupungatito Glacier, located in a volcanic crater at an elevation of 19,000 feet in the Andes Mountains.  The expedition team, which we call TE2012, is comprised of members from the Climate Change Institute […]

University of Maine ecologist Jasmine Saros provided research for a groundbreaking finding about the long-term effects of pollution published in the Dec. 16 issue of the journal Science. The research team, led by Gordon Holtgrieve, a University of Washington postdoctoral researcher, found that nitrogen derived from human activities has polluted lakes throughout the Northern Hemisphere […]