Climate Change Institute

In reporting about how El Niño has pushed global monthly mean ocean temperatures to all-time high, Hindustan Times cited information from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Change Reanalyzer demonstrating that sea surface temperatures observed since April show a far sharper spike than the warming over land, especially when compared with the long-term […]

In reporting about wet summer conditions and whether they will continue into the fall and winter, the Sun Journal interviewed Sean Birkel, Maine state climatologist and assistant professor with a joint appointment in University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the UMaine Climate Change Institute. “We’re seeing more extremes as the climate warms. So, in terms […]

The Daily Hampshire Gazette reported that Bonnie Newsom, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Maine, will serve as a co-principal investigator at a new center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst known as the Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science (CBIKS), which received $30 million in funding from the National Science Foundation.

Witnessing abrupt climate change ByMarina Schauffler September 10, 2023 Planetary change may now be outpacing both scientific understanding and political will. Ice cores from glaciers have revealed evidence of abrupt climate change in past geological eras. Similarly rapid change is now happening in Arctic air and sea-surface temperatures, raising concerns about worldwide repercussions. Photo courtesy […]

Antarctic evidence for an abrupt northward shift of the Southern Hemisphere westerlies at 32 ka BP Abhijith U. Venugopal, Nancy A. N. Bertler, Jeffrey P. Severinghaus, Edward J. Brook, Giuseppe Cortese, James E. Lee, Thomas Blunier, Paul A. Mayewski, Helle A. Kjær, Lionel Carter, Michael E. Weber, Richard H. Levy, Rebecca L. Pyne & Marcus […]

In a story about how summer 2023 was the hottest on record, Euronews cited data from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer which shows that so far, daily September temperatures are also above average.

The Associated Press cited data from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer in reporting about how 2023 was the hottest summer on record. The Portland Press Herald, Spectrum News NY 1 (New York), Union-Bulletin (Walla Walla, Washington), Traverse City Record-Eagle (Traverse City, Michigan), The Register Citizen (Torrington, Connecticut), Dayton Daily News (Dayton, […]

Maine Public featured Jacquelyn Gill, associate professor of paleoecology and plant ecology with the University of Maine School of Biology and Ecology and Climate Change Institute, and Gregory Zaro, associate professor at the UMaine Department of Anthropology and Climate Change Institute, as panelists on the show ‘Maine Calling’ for a segment about the Anthropocene, the […]

Jacquelyn Gill, associate professor of paleoecology and plant ecology with the University of Maine School of Biology and Ecology and Climate Change Institute, spoke to Fast Company about how Maine got more than 100,000 residents to install heat pumps. Gill told Fast Company that this year’s muggy, hot summer convinced her to install a heat […]

The Department of Defense (DOD) has awarded $1,504,063 to a University of Maine project quantifying snowpack properties in the Arctic led by School of Earth and Climate Sciences faculty members Chris Gerbi and Seth Campbell, who also is affiliated with the Climate Change Institute. Characterizing and predicting the characteristics of snow-covered regions is a critical […]