Climate Change Institute

Rick Eason, associate professor emeritus of electrical engineering at the University of Maine, was interviewed by Inside Edition about balloon hobbyists and a weather balloon experiment he conducted along with hobbyist John Garesche with seventh graders in Ohio. The interview is available on Inside Edition’s YouTube channel.

Alessandro Mereghetti holds a piece of a mammoth tusk in the basing of the Indigirka River in the Republic of Sakha, Russia, in 2019Photo by Karen James March 1, 2023 Determining how the diversity of plant-eating megafauna has affected vegetation in the Arctic over the past 150,000 years will be the focus of a new […]

Seth Campbell, associate professor at the University of Maine School of Earth and Climate Sciences and Climate Change Institute, was quoted by Science and E&E News about unfair practices in the polar Physical Qualification, or PQ, process. The comprehensive medical screening is required for scientists and support staff whose deployment to the Antarctic and Arctic […]

The Climate Change Institute is pleased to announce a new workforce development program, the Graduate Certificate in Climate Science and Adaptation. This online graduate certificate program for working professionals was developed in partnership with the Division of Lifelong Learning and UMaineOnline. Coursework entails nine credit hours with graduate-level courses in the physical science basis for […]

Sean Birkel, Maine state climatologist and assistant professor with a joint appointment in University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the UMaine Climate Change Institute, spoke to the Sun Journal about the weather highlights of 2022. Birkel told the Sun Journal that the last of the winter snowpack melted earlier than usual on March 8, and […]

Studying the response of Antarctic ice sheets to past warming episodes is essential to understand how they may respond to the present warming climate, as their melting and collapse can contribute to global sea level rise. Detailed records of past ocean temperatures close to the continent are rare, but clues to how ice sheets and […]

Four and a half years of visits to the University of Maine’s numerous research labs, creative arts spaces, university farms, research forests, field sites, instruments, and development facilities in Orono and beyond have taught me a great deal. I am grateful to all who have stepped away from their research time to explain what they […]

Sean Birkel, Maine state climatologist and assistant professor with a joint appointment in University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the UMaine Climate Change Institute, spoke to USA Today to fact check an article that falsely claims the sun is causing global cooling. Birkel explained that cold events can occur even on a warming planet. Climate […]

In an article featuring historical photographs of ice conditions in Maine, the Bangor Daily News cited the 2020 Maine’s Climate Future report published by the University of Maine, which shows that winter is the state’s fastest-warming season. WPFO-TV (Fox 23 in Portland) shared the BDN report.