Climate Change Institute

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 […]

Graduate student Kurt Rademaker struck anthropological gold last summer. High in the Peruvian Andes, he discovered prehistoric quarries of obsidian, the volcanic glass used in toolmaking. His discovery could be the key to understanding how humans settled South America.   To access the complete UMaine Today Magazine article, please visit the following website: UMaine Today […]

A team led by University of Maine scientists has reported finding a potential link between changes in solar activity and the Earth’s climate.  In a paper for the Annals of Glaciology, Paul Mayewski, director of UMaine’s Climate Change Institute, and 11 colleagues from China, Australia and Maine describe evidence from ice cores pointing to an […]

Locked in ice cores are clues to how climate evolved over thousands of years. But just what do scientists look for in the frozen timeline?   To access the complete UMaine Today Magazine article, please visit the following website: UMaine Today website

Brenda Hall is a leading young scientist studying evidence of abrupt climate change that occurred in Antarctica thousands of years ago. Working on ice sheets at the bottom of the world, Hall and her team use tweezers and spoons to hunt for those clues — bits of algae, shell or animal skin — that are […]

As the Ice Age ended almost 14,000 years ago, glaciers moved through Down East Maine, leaving scars on the landscape that are still visible to the trained eye. Now a UMaine geologist wants to share with the public the scientifically and historically significant evidence of the deglaciation trail.     To access the complete UMaine Today […]