Climate Change Institute

In August, Dan Sandweiss lectured on “El Niño y la arqueología de la costa peruana” at Universidad Nacional Pedro Ruiz Gallo, Lambayeque, Peru and at Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru. The professor of anthropology and climate studies was an invited participant to an 10 ober workshop on “Collapse! What Collapse? Societal adaptations […]

Sean Birkel, Maine’s state climatologist and a research assistant professor at the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, spoke with the Bangor Daily News for the article, “Repeat of ice storm of ’98 unlikely, not impossible.” The BDN reported that the ice storm that devastated Maine 20 years ago was caused by an unusual mix […]

The Portland Press Herald reported Maine Medical Center Research Institute in Scarborough is partnering with the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute to study how climate change affects deer ticks and Lyme disease. Susan Elias, a disease ecologist at the research institute and a UMaine Ph.D. candidate, said persuasive research connects climate change with the […]

Jacquelyn Gill, an assistant professor of terrestrial paleoecology at the University of Maine, was named one of six finalists for Portland Press Herald’s “2017 Mainers of the Year.” According to the Press Herald, the finalists made impacts this year that reverberated outside the state. Gill got the idea for the March for Science as she […]

The Associated Press cited a University of Maine Climate Change Institute analysis in a report looking at what is causing the Arctic blast that has moved south to affect central and eastern United States. Super cold air is normally locked up in the Arctic in the polar vortex, which is a gigantic circular weather pattern […]

Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie, a postdoctoral David H. Smith Conservation Research Fellow at the University of Maine, wrote an opinion piece for the Bangor Daily News titled, “National parks belong to Americans. They should remain accessible to all.” MacKenzie studies alpine and subalpine plant communities, climate change and conservation across New England.

By Chris Mooney December 19 The ice core drilling camp at 13,000 feet on Alaska’s Mount Hunter, where 18 feet of snow falls each year, up from eight feet before the Industrial Revolution. (Erich Osterberg) A team of scientists presented surprising data on Tuesday suggesting that even as the state of Alaska has warmed up extremely rapidly in […]

Reuters , Daily Mail , The Straits Times and Business Day reported on a new study conducted by researchers from Dartmouth College, the University of Maine and the University of New Hampshire. The study, which was published in the journal Scientific Reports, found snowfalls atop an Alaskan mountain range have doubled since the start of […]

The Inside Science article, “Melting glaciers release pollutants frozen decades ago,” focuses on research presented by Kimberley Miner, an earth and climate scientist and graduate student at the University of Maine, at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in New Orleans. Miner’s analysis suggests that people who live in the shadow of melting glaciers […]