Climate Change Institute

Ferns have staying power. The vascular plants have existed for about 350 million years, even surviving nuclear winterlike conditions — global dimming, cooling and acid rain — 66 million years ago that wiped out dinosaurs and 75% of other animals and plants on Earth. Jacquelyn Gill, a University of Maine paleoecologist, will explore fern resilience […]

The second meeting of the Maine Climate Council on Jan. 29 in Augusta will focus on a report from the Science and Technical Subcommittee about the effects of climate change in the state. The subcommittee’s work in the past four months provides the initial scientific basis for the ongoing deliberations of the various working groups, […]

Jacquelyn Gill’s “Warm Regards” was one of five nominees for “Best Green Podcast” at the iHeartRadio Podcast Awards 2020 on Friday, Jan. 17 in Los Angeles. And the University of Maine paleoecologist expects this coming season’s podcast will be even better. When the podcast began in 2016, it was the only one about climate change. […]

The Sandwich Enterprise talked with University of Maine doctoral student Heather Clifford about her experience on the National Geographic and Rolex Perpetual Planet Everest Expedition. “The expedition overall was quite an incredible experience; having little travel experience I had quite a few firsts,” said the 2011 graduate of Sandwich High School. “First time being in […]

The impressive size of the Glidden Midden and the even larger Whaleback Midden caught public interest and economic attention in the 19th century. Historic postcards recorded the wish-you-were-here wonder at the size and “mystery” of the middens. They also record the near destruction of the Whaleback Midden in the 1880s, as its contents were mined […]

CentralMaine.com reported Ivan Fernandez, Distinguished Maine Professor in the Climate Change Institute and School of Forest Resources at the University of Maine, will speak during a celebration of a conservation milestone at the Maine Agricultural Trades Show in Augusta on Jan. 15. Maine Woodland Owners announced that it has permanently conserved more than 10,000 acres […]

The Washington Post interviewed Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie, a postdoctoral research fellow with the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, for an article about her research on bird arrivals in Maine. The arrival dates of migratory birds in Maine may not be shifting fast enough to keep up with earlier leaf-out and flowering induced by a […]

Maine Public’s Speaking in Maine is sharing Paul Mayewski’s address titled “Arctic Climate Change and Maine” in December to the Mid-Coast Forum on Foreign Relations in in Camden. Mayewski, director of the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, recently led National Geographic and Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Extreme Expedition to Mount Everest. The world-renowned climate scientist […]

Science magazine spoke with Paul Mayewski, director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, for the article “What’s it like to install a weather station at the top of the world?” Mayewski and Tom Matthews, a climate scientist at Loughborough University in the United Kingdom, were interviewed about their experiences as members […]

What’s it like living and doing research in the world’s most remote locations? Listen as Ron Lisnet continues his conversation with Paul Mayewski, director of the University of Maine Climate Change Institute. In Part 2 of the two-part podcast “The Maine Question,” Mayewski recalls drilling ice cores on glaciers and living in a tent for […]