Climate Change Institute

The Associated Press interviewed University of Maine climate scientist Jacquelyn Gill about how she maintains hope and optimism in light of the worsening climate crisis. Gill said she has accepted the idea that she is “everybody’s climate midwife” and coaches them to hope through action. Gill said what’s key in fighting eco-anxiety is that “regular […]

The University of Maine was recently awarded observer status by parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The status allows the university to send a delegation of students and faculty to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27) Nov. 7–18 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. […]

  Shell midden or deposit of oysters on the Damariscotta River in Maine. Sites like this contain massive quantities of oysters harvested some 2,200–1,300 years ago and were key to forming the foundation for this study. The white strip of oyster shell along the shoreline shows just a fraction of the oyster material. Photo courtesy […]

CNN, Science Daily, The Independent, Phys.org, Earth.com, Biz News Post, Daily Mail, Belfast Telegraph and other international outlets reported on new research based on an analysis of dozens of archaeological sites in the United States and Australia that shows oysters were sustainably farmed on a massive scale by Indigenous groups. Bonnie Newsom, assistant professor of […]

The University of Maine Arts Initiative (UMAI) is pleased to announce three winning projects of a recent competitive seed grant program. The program is designed to create and enhance collaborations across the arts and STEM disciplines and contribute to development priorities set forth by the Maine Economic Improvement Fund (MEIF). The MEIF represents the ongoing […]

The University of Maine Climate Change Institute and Summer University will host the first Climate Change Workshop for pre-K–12 educators this summer. “Climate Change Teaching Tools” is designed for educators to learn more about climate change and, in particular, how to bring this important subject area into the classroom in meaningful ways for students. Participants […]

Ten new projects have been competitively selected in the 2022 funding round of University of Maine System Research Reinvestment Fund (RRF). Each project includes multicampus collaborations, with student research learning experiences serving as a central component to the collaborative research being conducted statewide. These one-year projects will foster research and development activities in three important […]

Bonnie Newsom, assistant professor of anthropology, was awarded a $50,000 grant from the Telling the Full History Preservation Fund through the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the National Endowment for the Humanities for a project researching the history of marginalized peoples in Acadia National Park. Telling the Full History grant program funds projects that […]

2022 Summer MSGC Graduate Fellowship Winners Announced April 26, 2022 The University of Maine’s Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR) and the Maine Space Grant Consortium (MSGC) have announced the 2022 Summer MSGC Graduate Research Fellowship Award recipients. The purpose of the MSGC fellowship and scholarship programs at UMaine is to provide research opportunities to undergraduate […]

MercoPress, an independent news agency based in Uruguay, reported that  Jacquelyn Gill, associate professor in the School of Biology and Ecology and the Climate Change Institute, and Kit Hamley, Ph.D. candidate in the Climate Change Institute, were recently selected as the winner of the Ecological Society of America’s W.S. Cooper Award for a study on […]