Climate Change Institute

Most students describe their summer vacation in one word: cool. But Brittany Gilman of South Portland, Maine, and Stephanie Allard of Woonsocket, R.I., really mean it. In August, the University of Maine Earth sciences students collected samples from the Greenland ice sheet. The undergraduate researchers are working with Climate Change Institute Director Paul Mayewski and […]

UMaine Selected for Membership in Research Organization November 16th, 2009 Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Recognizing the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s international prominence in climate science, the prestigious University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) has selected UMaine for membership.  The organization’s member institutions unanimously approved UMaine’s application at its recent […]

Paul Mayewski, Director of the Climate Change Institute, was interviewed recently for SciencePoles, the website of the International Polar Year.

As reported by UMaine’s news service, UMaine climatologist and CCI faculty member Gordon Hamilton’s recent excursion to Greenland has received significant international media coverage. International networks including CNN, ABC (Australia), and many others have covered Gordon’s recent work. From an interview with ABC (Australia): Well I guess the major change is that the glaciers haven’t […]

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