Climate Change Institute

Using ice samples from the Allan Hills blue ice region in East Antarctica, scientists at the University of Maine, in cooperation with Princeton University, hope to extend climate records back 2.5 million years. Andrei Kurbatov and Paul Mayewski of UMaine’s Climate Change Institute have been awarded more than $430,000 from the National Science Foundation for […]

UMaine anthropologist studies the roles humans and climate play in transforming Peru’s coast.   To access the complete UMaine Today Magazine article, please visit the following website: UMaine Today website

The 2009 Harold W. Borns Symposium will be held at Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall, University of Maine on 05 7-8, 2009. This symposium is a unique event that brings together the University of Maine community each year for a focused discussion of emerging research and topics related to global environmental change. Arrive at 7:30 a.m […]

  Climate Change Institute Director Paul Mayewski offers his perspectives on global climate change, the science that’s getting closer to predicting its future and what our changing climate means to us.   To access the complete UMaine Today Magazine article, please visit the following website: UMaine Today website

As part of an unprecedented, multiyear effort, researchers have retrieved the first section of an ice column in Antarctica that could provide the most detailed record yet of greenhouse gases in Earth’s atmosphere during the last 100,000 years.   To access the complete UMaine Today Magazine article, please visit the following website: UMaine Today website

Glacial geologist Brenda Hall is studying the remains of prehistoric elephant seals in an effort to better understand climate change.   To access the complete UMaine Today Magazine article, please visit the following website: UMaine Today website

A new study of glacial retreat shows that much of the world emerged from the last ice age simultaneously, according to two leading climate change scientists at Columbia University and the University of Maine. The exceptions were areas of the North Atlantic, which remained in a deep freeze 2,500 years longer.   To access the […]

Geodynamicist Peter Koons is a world leader in understanding the interactions among tectonics, surface evolution and climate change. His models characterizing the evolution of the landscape could one day forecast how the Earth will respond to changes to come.   To access the complete UMaine Today Magazine article, please visit the following website: UMaine Today […]

Watching glaciers move can be tedious. Things don’t happen very fast. But University of Maine graduate student Leigh Stearns has found a way to make the science lesson fun and understandable.   To access the complete UMaine Today Magazine article, please visit the following website: UMaine Today website

Last winter, University of Maine master’s student Aaron Putnam was in the TransAntarctic Mountains on an expedition that included some extreme rock collecting. He and members of a research team rappelled into wind-carved ice moats, scaled sheer cliffs and chipped away at boulders, looking for clues about the stability of the two ice sheets that […]