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Sorg receives Governor’s Award for helping combat opioid epidemic

Gov. Janet Mills honored Marcella Sorg, a forensic anthropologist and a University of Maine research professor at the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, with the Governor’s Award during the sixth annual Governor’s Opioid Response Summit on Thursday, July 25. Sorg was recognized for her “extraordinary contributions in the fight against substance use disorder,” according to […]

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Is More COP Representation Enough to Move the Needle on Africa’s Climate Priorities? – V. Markiewicz, P. Gandah, & N. Micinski

A research team at CCI recently published an article with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. In the article, Victoria Markiewicz (UMaine SPIA and CCI graduate student), Praise P.T. Gandah (lecturer at Midlands State University in Zimbabwe), and Nicholas R. Micinski (UMaine SPIA and CCI faculty) explore the dynamics surrounding Africa’s representation at COP. African […]

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Two Recently Accepted Papers in Icarus Relating to Mars Climate Change – J. Fastook

Two papers recently accepted for publication in the journal Icarus that are about work on Mars relating to investigations into early Mars climate when the atmosphere was denser and there was more water around. Both deal with the ongoing controversy about whether early Mars was “wet & warm” with rainfall to produce the observed fluvial […]

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National organization recognizes Gill’s leadership in quaternary sciences

Jacquelyn Gill, a University of Maine associate professor of paleoecology and plant ecology, won the American Quaternary Association Award for Leadership in Quaternary Sciences. The award recognizes midcareer scientists in North America who have made outstanding scientific discoveries and exceptional impacts in the field of quaternary sciences and society at large. More information can be […]

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Fernandez featured in climate council coverage from Maine Public, WGME

Maine Public interviewed Ivan Fernandez, a professor emeritus in the University of Maine’s School of Forest Resources, on a report from the Maine Climate Council, of which he is a member, that will guide updates to the state’s climate action plan. Fernandez said the report builds on a previous study and shows trends that contributed […]

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NYT cites Climate Reanalyzer data visualizations on worldwide heat tracker

The New York Times cited two data visualizations from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer. One visualization showed the range of maximum temperature forecasts for Thursday worldwide, and the second showed where Thursday’s forecast temperatures were warmer than 1979-2000 averages and by how much.

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Gill interviewed by Washington Post on using ‘Anthropocene’

The Washington Post interviewed University of Maine associate professor of terrestrial paleoecology Jacquelyn Gill on using the term “Anthropocene,” which defines the age of irreversible human impacts on the planet, in light of a decision by geologists to not mark Anthropocene as an official period in Earth’s geological timeline. “We all as a community of […]

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