Climate Change Institute

Nun Kun Massif, Ladakh, Indian Himalayas.Photo by Paul Mayewski UMaine Climate Change Institute celebrates 50th anniversary November 21, 2022 The University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2023, marking half-century of research and education related to climate change in Maine, New England and across the planet. In 1973, professor emeritus Harold […]

The nation’s first multi- and inter-disciplinary research institute to study Earth’s recent and long-term climate variability was founded in 1972 at the University of Maine. That institute, now known as the Climate Change Institute, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, a milestone that honors the many groundbreaking discoveries its scientists have made in the […]

hough freshwater systems are known to be important indicators for understanding climate change, little has been done to connect the existing science on freshwater bodies in the Arctic in order to determine patterns that will help better understand the region. A University of Maine-led review has tied together the existing research about Arctic freshwater systems’ […]

Maine Public, News Center Maine and Bangor Daily News reported that nine University of Maine and University of Maine School of Law faculty and graduate students will attend the proceedings of the United Nations climate summit known as the 27th Conference of the Parties, or COP27, in Egypt next month. Cindy Isenhour, associate professor of […]

The University of Maine has released a video about a summer 2022 expedition by students and faculty to Greenland as part of a program funded by the National Science Foundation.

What if climate change and pandemics were the real causes of the decline of the Roman Empire? Scientists from a range of disciplines are accumulating clues to show that three successive waves of deadly epidemics and powerful temperature drops could have caused the collapse of the Empire — and draw frightening parallels to today. This […]

In June 2022, Jasmine Saros, associate director of the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, led an expedition to south Greenland for Arctic research and field training. Her group, which consisted of researchers from UMaine, the University of Maine School of Law and other institutions, studied different socio-environmental Arctic systems during their trip — with […]

University of Maine researchers who are attending a United Nations climate summit Nov. 7–18 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt will share their experiences in a new blog on the Climate Change Institute website. The blog will feature regular updates about the global climate change policy negotiations and other events happening during the United Nations Framework Convention […]

Daniel Sandweiss, professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Maine, was featured in the November-December 2022 issue of American Scientist, the magazine, published by Sigma Xi Scientific Society, discussing a Grant in Aid of Research (GIAR) that he received almost 40 years ago as a graduate student at Cornell. “The GIAR award […]

Reuters interviewed Sean Birkel, Maine state climatologist and assistant professor with a joint appointment in University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the UMaine Climate Change Institute, about winter ticks that have thrived in Maine’s warmer winters and last year killed 90% of the state’s moose calves. Birkel explained that the warming climate has shortened the […]