Climate Change Institute

Jacquelyn Gill, associate professor of paleoecology and plant ecology at the University of Maine School of Biology and Ecology and Climate Change Institute, was interviewed by The Scientist about the current sixth mass extinction. “We’re in this really unusual position, where, for the first time, we are trying to put our finger on a geologically […]

Professor Jefferson Cardia Simões (founding director of the Centro Polar e Climático, Instituto de GeociênciasUniversidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Vice President of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research and associated Professor in the Climate Change Institute) and many of his students have been frequent partners in many CCI research projects.  In […]

Wild blueberries, an icon of Down East landscapes, will soon take root at the University of Maine’s new Wyman’s Wild Blueberry Research and Innovation Center. The three-acre research and education site will be established off University Farm Road in Old Town over the coming year through a gift from Wyman’s, a 148-year-old family-owned business based […]

Mariusz Potocki, research assistant at the University of Maine, was interviewed for IFLScience about the impacts of climate change on Mount Everest’s base camp. The article cited Potocki’s study that found that Everest’s highest glacier, the South Col Glacier, shed 2,000 years’ worth of ice in 30 years and has lost half its mass since […]

The Globe and Mail reported on a research expedition to the summit of Mount Logan, Canada’s tallest mountain, last month to collect ice core samples from the massive glacier that resides just below the summit’s multiple peaks. Dominic Winski, research assistant professor at the University of Maine Climate Change Institute and an expedition member, said […]

In an opinion essay about international conflicts in data collection on Mount Everest, the New York Times quoted Paul Mayewski, director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, as saying Chinese researchers are “much tougher” than their Western counterparts. Shichang Kang of China’s State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Sciences and a former […]

In an article about Nepal potentially moving the Mount Everest base camp as a result of climate change, CNN spoke to Paul Mayewski, director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, about a study he authored that revealed that ice formed over a period of 2,000 years on the South Col Glacier […]

The location, season and the time of day influence how fast temperatures are rising at Maine wild blueberry fields due to climate change, according to a new University of Maine study. To identify variations in climate across Maine wild blueberry fields at different times of the day and year, the research team led by Rafa […]

The Adirondack Explorer reported that the Northeast, along with some parts of the West, has the highest probability in the U.S. of being hotter than usual this summer. The article cited data from the University of Maine Climate Reanalyzer detailing the change in temperature over the past 50 years in New York City and Saranac […]

The Environmental News Network, Science Daily, Scienmag, ScienceNews, Phys.org and other international outlets reported on a University of Maine-led research study that found major glaciers in West Antarctica may be losing ice faster than they have in at least the last 5,000 years. At the current rate of retreat, the Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers, […]