Climate Change Institute

Katherine Allen is an ocean historian. But instead of poring through old texts, she studies the chemical composition of tiny ancient fossil shells in Southwest Pacific marine sediment. Allen, a research assistant professor at the University of Maine, says these marine fossils — which have been accumulating on the seafloor for millions of years — […]

This year’s Geddes W. Simpson Lecturer is Dr. David Greene. He’ll speak on “Building the sustainable car: History lessons from 40 years of regulating automotive carbon emissions” at the Buchanan Alumni House, Thursday 09 . 22nd, 3:30-5:00. Please see attached announcement for details. Dr. Green is a lifetime National Associate of the U.S. National Academies. […]

This summer the University of Maine hosted 25 emerging public management leaders from Sub-Saharan Africa as part of the Mandela Washington Fellowship (MWF), the flagship program of President Barack Obama’s Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI). The Mandela Fellows spent six-weeks — June 17–July 31 — in Maine, participating in academic, professional and recreational activities statewide. […]

Art created by University of Maine graduate student Jill Pelto is featured on the cover of an international climate report compiled by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Pelto’s environmental artwork appears on the front and back of the State of the Climate in 2015, an international, peer-reviewed publication released each summer as a supplement […]

University of Maine graduate student Jill Peto was included in the National Geographic series, “20 Under 30: The Next Generation of National Park Leaders.” The feature on Pelto, titled “This artist turns dull data into art — and a call to action,” focuses on her environmental artwork that convey climate change in North Cascades National […]

Samuel Belknap, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology and the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, was featured in a four-part film series produced by the Island Institute. “A Climate of Change” highlights fishing communities threatened by the effects of a changing climate and what they are doing to adapt. The […]

Nature NOW, the blog of the PBS documentary show “Nature,” cited research conducted by Brian Olsen, an associate professor of biology and ecology at the University of Maine, in the post, “Can the saltmarsh sparrow keep its head above water?” According to the article, the tiny coastal bird is rapidly disappearing from the eastern United […]

Hal Borns, professor emeritus of geology and founding director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, and Gretchen Faulkner, director of the Hudson Museum at UMaine, were quoted in a Bangor Daily News article about a new natural history museum in Milo. Retired telecommunications engineer Tom Harrigan and his wife have opened […]

For Stephen Norton, lakes hold a treasure trove of precious scientific information. For the past 40 years, Norton, professor emeritus at the University of Maine, has studied lakes by evaluating sediment cores from around the world. Using the cores taken from the bottom of lakes, he is able to determine the age of the sediment […]

Dan Sandweiss, a professor of anthropology and quaternary and climate studies at the University of Maine, was elected Vice President for Chapter Development of the Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society. Sandweiss, who also is director of UMaine’s School of Policy and International Affairs, was elected to the position on July 30 at the 2016 […]