Climate Change Institute

Jacquelyn Gill, associate professor of paleoecology and plant ecology with the University of Maine School of Biology and Ecology and Climate Change Institute, spoke to Fast Company about how Maine got more than 100,000 residents to install heat pumps. Gill told Fast Company that this year’s muggy, hot summer convinced her to install a heat […]

The Department of Defense (DOD) has awarded $1,504,063 to a University of Maine project quantifying snowpack properties in the Arctic led by School of Earth and Climate Sciences faculty members Chris Gerbi and Seth Campbell, who also is affiliated with the Climate Change Institute. Characterizing and predicting the characteristics of snow-covered regions is a critical […]

In reporting about a deadly summer heat wave that continued to break temperature records this week throughout the South, Southwest and Midwest, Forbes cited data from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer showing that July 4 was the planet’s hottest day in nearly 125,000 years, at 62.92 degrees.

In an article about Hurricane Idalia intensifying in warm Gulf of Mexico waters, The Conversation cited data from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer about global ocean temperatures.

In an article about heat waves in Knoxville, the Knoxville Sentinel cited data from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer that shows Earth had its hottest day on record when the global average reached 63 degrees in July, surpassing the previous 62.9 record.

In an article about the impact of warming oceans, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) cited data from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer illustrating the increase in sea surface temperatures.

The Portland Press Herald published a feature story about Sean Birkel, Maine state climatologist and assistant professor with a joint appointment in University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the UMaine Climate Change Institute, and his work involving the UMaine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer. “It’s a difficult thing to do,” Birkel said. “You have to […]

About 13,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age, glaciers that pushed arctic plant life across the northern hemisphere receded and left some behind on mountain tops in the Northeastern U.S. The alpine plants — now far away from their original tundra habitats — have endured millenia of extreme seasonal climate changes […]

Listen Now   Paul Mayewski, polar explorer and Director of the University of Maine’s 50-year-old Climate Change Institute weighs in on what it’s like to be a climate expert these days when everyone is a climate expert. And Mark Dunlea shares a peek at his new book “Putting Out the Planetary Fire, An Introduction to […]

Scientific American spoke to Jacquelyn Gill, associate professor of paleoecology and plant ecology with the University of Maine School of Biology and Ecology and Climate Change Institute, about new research into the famed La Brea Tar Pits published on Aug. 17 in Science. “We know that in modern systems, extinction is very rarely unicausal. You […]