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Birkel quoted in Sun Journal report on warming weather, increase in insects

The Sun Journal quoted research and personnel from the University of Maine in an article on Maine’s warming weather and its effect on insects and the diseases they carry. Between 1895 and 2014, Maine warmed 3 degrees, according to “Maine’s Climate Future: 2015 Update,” a report produced by UMaine’s Climate Change Institute (CCI) and Maine […]

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Roscoe named 2016 Distinguished Maine Professor

University of Maine anthropologist Paul “Jim” Roscoe has been named the 2016 Distinguished Maine Professor by the University of Maine Alumni Association. Roscoe, a world-renowned leader in cultural anthropology, is a professor of anthropology, and a cooperating professor in UMaine’s Climate Change Institute and the School of Policy and International Affairs. Sponsored by UMaine’s classes […]

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UMaine Ph.D. candidate awarded Fulbright to Canada

Kimberley Rain Miner, a second-year Ph.D. candidate in Earth and climate sciences at the University of Maine, has received a Fulbright U.S. Student Program grant to Canada in geosciences from the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Miner, who is from Los Angeles, will be conducting research at University […]

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Emerging climate change research focus of Hal Borns Symposium

University of Maine graduate students and faculty will make more than 60 presentations about emerging climate change research on topics from lobsters to deer ticks at the 24th annual Harold W. Borns Jr. Symposium on April 14–15, in Stodder Hall. The symposium namesake, Professor Emeritus Harold “Hal” Borns, founded the Climate Change Institute at UMaine […]

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NOAA’s 41st Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop (October 3-6, 2016)

NOAA’s 41st Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop will be held in Orono, Maine on 3-6 2016-ober-10. The workshop will be jointly hosted by the University of Maine Climate Change Institute and School of Earth and Climate Sciences and is co-sponsored by the Climate Prediction Center (CPC) of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) and […]

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Ellsworth American interviews Borns about predicted global sea level rise

The Ellsworth American spoke with Hal Borns, professor emeritus with the University of Maine Climate Change Institute and School of Earth and Climate Sciences, for the article, “Global sea level rise predictions double.”  The article cites a study recently published in the journal Science that suggests global sea rise is happening faster than anyone thought, […]

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A Maine lobster fishing community confronts their changing climate

Author: Esperanza Stancioff  March 28, 2016 A lobster boat in Maine. Still image from video “Confronting Changing Climate Conditions: A Lobster Community Adapts through Participatory Planning.” Video footage: Jeff Dobbs. Used with permission. This article was originally published on the U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit website as part of their “Taking Action” series.  A heat wave, […]

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Putnam blazes ice age career path

Aaron Putnam has been awarded one of most prestigious grants for an early-career scientist. Early career indeed. Putnam has been on the job at the University of Maine for about eight months as the George H. Denton Assistant Professor in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences. In May, he’ll take the reins of a […]

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S. Belknap quoted in Hakai Magazine article on warming waters, lobsters

Samuel Belknap, a Ph.D. student in the Adaptation to Abrupt Climate Change NSF IGERT Fellowship program pursuing a degree in anthropology and environmental policy at the University of Maine, was quoted in the Hakai Magazine article, “A warming threat to Maine’s lobsters.” In 2012, lobstermen started showing up at Belknap’s family dock in Bristol with […]

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ClimateWire interviews Mayewski about pioneering glaciologist

Paul Mayewski, director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, spoke with ClimateWire for an article about glaciologist Claude Lorius. Over a half-century beginning in 1956 when Antarctica was a scientific mystery, Lorius assembled proof from the continent showing that humans are warming the planet by pumping out carbon at rates never […]

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