Climate Change Institute

The University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the taking of the South Pole with two days of events including a keynote address by polar explorer Olav Orheim. Orheim will speak at 7 p.m. on Nov. 21, at the Collins Center for the Arts on the UMaine campus. He will […]

The Adventure and Excitement Behind Climate Research In the Polar Regions and the World’s High Mountains Adventure, The Golden Age of Climate Research, and the Unmasking of Human Innocence Told through stories and restored period photographs Available for iPad, in paper, and as a PDF Paul Andrew Mayewski Director Climate Change Institute,University of Maine Michael […]

Ron and Lee Davis, former UMaine faculty members, will receive the Hands of Peace Award at the upcoming 22nd annual harvest supper, according to a Bangor Daily News report. Ron Davis, who is known locally for his work with the Orono Bog Boardwalk, was affiliated with UMaine’s Climate Change Institute. Lee Davis taught biology and […]

Research being conducted by UMaine forensic anthropologist Marcella Sorg was mentioned in a Central Maine Morning Sentinel story about a 709-acre tract of land in rural Somerset County, Maine, that will be used as a place for disabled veterans to hunt and a variety of other uses, including Sorg’s research. Sorg, who works with the […]

Prof. Karl Kreutz of the UMaine Climate Change Institute was quoted in a Nature story about the fate of a large collection or Arctic ice cores held by the Canadian government.  Scientists who work with the collection differ on the extent to which it’s future is threatened by budget cuts, but Kreutz says he believes […]

The website Futurity.com had a story about a recent study, which included UMaine research, that looked at drill cores taken from Greenland’s ice sheet to determine that Earth’s climate is capable of very rapid transitions. UMaine Ph.D. candidate Aaron Putnam contributed research to the project, which was led by Cardiff University in Wales, U.K. The […]

University of Maine Ph.D. candidate Aaron Putnam is a member of an international team of scientists who have produced a prediction of what climate records from Greenland might look like over the last 800,000 years and investigation into the possible causes of abrupt climate change. Putnam, a glacial geologist in UMaine’s Department of Earth Sciences […]

The Climate Change Institute and Rising Tide Center are sponsoring a series of professional development panel discussions this year. The first panel, held 09 . 22 starting at 11:30 a.m. in Wells 2, will focus on how to develop and lead large, collaborative research projects.  Panel members will include Dr. Cathy Whitlock of Montana State […]

Tuesday’s New York Times science section includes a story about “The World’s Beaches: A Global Guide to the Science of the Shoreline.”  Prof. Joe Kelley of the UMaine Dept. of Earth Sciences is one of the book’s four co-authors.  The Times feature also includes a slide show of images related to the book and the […]

The role of humans on the global stage is the theme of Curt Stager’s Deep Future. Stager (a paleoecologist at Paul Smith’s College, New York) begins by welcoming readers to the Age of Humans (Anthropocene). He immediately follows with words that will discomfit many traditional conservationists: “Welcome to the end of the natural world as […]