Climate Change Institute

The Bangor Daily News quoted Sean Birkel, Maine state climatologist and research assistant professor at the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, in an article about frost quakes. Birkel explained how climate change and extreme weather events are creating better conditions for frost quakes.

February 14, 2022 A longtime University of Maine professor who is a world-renowned researcher in Latin American archaeology and paleoclimatology is the 2022 Distinguished Maine Professor, the university’s most prestigious faculty award. Daniel Sandweiss is a UMaine professor in the Anthropology Department and the Climate Change Institute. He also is a cooperating professor in the […]

February 10, 2022 Episodes No place on earth can escape the effects of climate change, not even Mount Everest. The highest glacier on the world’s tallest mountain — the South Col Glacier — is rapidly disappearing. A new University of Maine-led study found that the glacier is losing several decades of ice and snow accumulation […]

Billions of people rely on glaciers for drinking water, hydropower and irrigation. A raft of new research suggests there is less ice left than previously thought. Read in NPR: https://apple.news/An6Wvt5MbR8GK5h32kJB1vw February 8, 20226:34 PM ET Quelccaya glacier in Peru, photographed in 2015. Glaciers in the Andes mountains contain significantly less water than previously thought, according […]

Orono, Maine — An all-student cast of seven will present the University of Maine School of Performing Arts Division of Theatre and Dance production of “Terra Nova” by Ted Tally, opening Feb. 11 in Hauck Auditorium at the University of Maine.   Directed by UMaine theatre instructor Julie Arnold Lisnet, “Terra Nova” is adapted from […]

The Maine Science Festival is scheduled for March 16-20, 2022.  As part of the Festival, Grammy-award winning composer, Lucas Richman composed a symphonic piece focused on climate change titled THE WARMING SEA which will be performed by the Bangor Symphony Orchestra on March 19 at the Collins Center for the Arts.  Preceding the symphony, three […]

The Juneau Icefield Research Program (JIRP) is having its 75th anniversary this year!  JIRP is an education and research program with academics run through the School of Earth & Climate Sciences and significant science support provided by the Climate Change Institute.  As part of JIRP’s celebration year, the program is holding a virtual event on February […]

Orono, Maine — Melting and sublimation on Mount Everest’s highest glacier due to human-induced climate change have reached the point that several decades of accumulation are being lost annually now that ice has been exposed, according to a University of Maine-led international research team that analyzed data from the world’s highest ice core and highest […]

Black Point Group featured Bonnie Newsom, an assistant professor of anthropology and a faculty associate with the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, and her research in Acadia National Park. She has been leading an effort to reanalyze archaeological collections from Wabanaki cultural sites in the park to create a framework for retelling […]