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Jacquelyn Gill, assistant professor of paleoecology and plant ecology at the University of Maine, will appear in a new five-part PBS program on human evolution. Gill will be featured in the premiere episode “Americas,” airing 9 p.m. June 24. “First Peoples” is a global detective story that traces the arrival of the first Homo sapiens […]

  When University of Maine climate change researchers Charles Rodda and Kit Hamley took a lunch break from drilling ice cores on a glacier in Peru this spring, they hiked to camp and sat down to eat. That’s when they got a volley of questions via text: “How will you keep all of your ice […]

When Abigail “Abi” Bradford was 2, her parents strapped skis on her feet, tucked her between their lower legs and glided down the slope. When she was a bit older and skiing solo, she belted out the “Sesame Street” theme song as she blazed full speed ahead along the main trail at Titcomb Mountain in […]

A University of Maine researcher, a doctoral student and an undergraduate are at Wind Cave National Park in Hot Springs, South Dakota excavating cave fossils that date back 11,000 years to the end of the most recent ice age. Scientists say preliminary samples from the material — which includes at least 22 species — will […]

Live Science reported on climate change research conducted by a team of scientists including Paul Mayewski, Andrei Kurbatov, Nicole Spaulding and Douglas Introne from the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine. The article, “Million-year-old bubbles reveal Antarctica’s oldest climate snapshot,” focused on research led by John Higgins, a geochemist at Princeton University. Higgins’ […]

A research team that includes University of Maine scientists announced a 60,000-year-old ice core from West Antarctica reveals that ocean currents redistributed past abrupt temperature changes in the Arctic to the Antarctic, a distance of about 11,000 miles. In addition to demonstrating a consistent link between previous sudden, rapid temperature changes in the Arctic and […]

Paul Mayewski, director of the Climate Change Institute (CCI) at the University of Maine, gave the keynote address at the seventh annual Maine Partners in Emergency Preparedness Conference in Augusta, according to media reports. The two-day event focuses on climate change implications for the state. The Kennebec Journal covered Mayewski’s talk that focused on the […]

The PBS Nature show “Animal Homes: Location, Location, Location” featured a field site of the Saltmarsh Habitat & Avian Research Program (SHARP). University of Maine assistant professor Brian Olsen is a principal investigator with SHARP; its goal is to establish priorities for the long-term conservation of tidal marsh birds. Ecologist Chris Morgan hosted “Animal Homes: […]

The Climate Change Institute proudly announces the 2015 Borns Symposium award winners!   The Churchill Award for Outstanding Exploration (2015) Ana Cecilia Mauricio   Harold W. Borns Symposium – Best Presentation Award (2015) 1st Place:  Benjamin Seliger 2nd Place:  Jennifer McCabe 3rd Place:  Jessica Scheick   Harold W. Borns Symposium – Best Poster Award (2015) […]

Climate Change InstituteThis figure shows the temperature departure from average (1979-2000 baseline) for much of the Northern Hemisphere. This is a typical day for winter 2014-2015. While eastern and notably northeastern U.S. are unseasonably cold, the rest of the Northern Hemisphere is unseasonably warm, and the Arctic is dramatically warmer. Greenhouse gas warming has affected […]