Climate Change Institute

Paul Mayewski, professor and director of the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, was featured on Northern Light Health’s podcast Tim Talk discussing the impact of climate change on human health with Northern Light Health president and CEO Tim Dentry.      

The Maine Monitor featured Ivan Fernandez, professor at the School of Forest Resources and Climate Change Institute, and Sharon Klein, associate professor at the School of Economics, in an article about the push for heat pumps and weatherization in Maine homes. “Everything we do, every increment we do, counts. I think we need to do […]

The University of Maine will host the second annual Climate Change Workshop, titled “Communicating Climate Change Science,” July 18–19. This two-day online professional development program, developed in partnership by the UMaine Climate Change Institute (CCI) and Division of Lifelong Learning, will feature keynote talks and interactive sessions on interdisciplinary climate change topics, led by experts […]

In an article about a sudden spike in global ocean temperatures, the Associated Press cited data from the University of Maine Climate Reanalyzer showing that from early March to this week, the global average ocean sea surface temperature jumped nearly two-tenths of a degree Celsius, or 0.36 degree Fahrenheit. The Climate Reanalyzer was developed by […]

More than 1,000 student researchers, co-authors, faculty, staff, event sponsors and community members attended the 2023 UMaine Student Symposium, held at the Collins Center For the Arts on Friday, April 14, 2023. The eighth annual symposium provided an opportunity for the public to interact with student researchers and scholars as they viewed posters and exhibits […]

Alumnus and president of Dielectric, Keith Pelletier, is among the recipients of the Maine College of Engineering and Computing’s Edward Bryand annual awards honoring alumni, faculty, staff and students. Pelletier was named the Edward T. Bryand Distinguished Engineer. Civil engineering professor and chair of the department, Shaleen Jain, received the Ashley Campbell Award. Amrit Verma […]

Jacquelyn Gill, associate professor of paleoecology and plant ecology with the University of Maine School of Biology and Ecology and Climate Change Institute, was a featured guest on the “Sustain What?” podcast from the Columbia Climate School. The podcast discussed why it’s not too late to turn the tides on climate change.

Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective multidisciplinary collegiate honor society, has awarded graduate research grants to three University of Maine students. Emma Erwin, a Ph.D. student in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences; Elizabeth Leclerc, an interdisciplinary Ph.D. student with the Department of Anthropology and the Climate Change Institute; and Dylan […]

Kit Hamley, EES PhD Candidate in SBE/CCI, has been awarded a highly competitive American Dissertation Fellowship from the American Association of University Women. This $25,000 fellowship will support Kit for 2023-2024 as she completes her dissertation, which leverages new tools to understand human prehistory in Maine and the Falkland Islands. Kit was previously supported by […]

The University of Maine Climate Change Institute has announced the graduate students who won awards for their research presentations during the 2023 Harold W. Borns Jr. Symposium. Ph.D. student Alessandro Mereghetti won first place for best overall talk for his presentation titled “Reconstructing Extinct Herbivore Community Structure Through High-Resolution Coprolite Analysis: An Insight into the […]