Climate Change Institute

Dr. Ivan Fernandez presented a lecture entitled:  The End of Climate Change at The Planetarium, on the University of Southern Maine campus on December 17, 2015.   The title speaks to the reality that accelerating rates of change in our chemical and physical climate are a reality of the 21st century, and will persist throughout the […]

For a second year, the University of Maine Cooperative Extension 4-H will connect K–12 students in Maine and around the country to UMaine researchers in the field as part of its Follow a Researcher program. The program aims to give students a glimpse into a scientist’s world by providing live expedition updates and facilitating communication […]

This winter, University of Maine graduate student Kit Hamley will research an extinct species of fox called the warrah in the Falkland Islands. While on her expedition, the Bozeman, Montana native will connect with K–12 students in Maine and around the country through Twitter chats as part of UMaine’s Follow a Researcher program. From Jan. […]

Illustration by Amanda Kahl Extinct North American species and those that exist today are juxtaposed near the North and South Bubble mountains in Acadia National Park. Clockwise from top left: a musk ox, short-faced bear, woodland caribou, American lion, giant beaver and woolly mammoth, with today’s moose. At the end of the last Ice Age, […]

Kimberley Rain Miner is an IGERT fellow and PhD student at CCI/Earth Sciences where she is studying legacy pollutants in glaciers, and the risk they pose to downstream communities. She has recently become a new Research Fellow at the Center for Climate and Security, where she focuses on utilizing scenario planning and risk assessment for […]

Cindy Isenhour, an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Maine and a cooperating faculty with the Climate Change Institute, was a recent guest on The Takeaway, a national news radio program. Isenhour spoke about carbon emissions and how the average person can calculate and cut their carbon footprint. City dwellers consume a lot […]

An article featuring the Ice Age Trail Map Downeast Map & Guide was published in the Machias Valley News Observer on Dec. 2, 2015. MachiasValleyObs_12-2-2015_-_Ice_Age_Trail_Map.pdf  

Colle Gnifetti. Photo by Nicole Spaulding In 2013 a joint venture of the University of Maine and Harvard University retrieved a 73-meter (240ft) ice core from Colle Gnifetti in the Swiss Alps.  Chemical analysis of the ice core, at the Climate Change Institute, is producing invaluable new data about climate change and human-climate interactions from […]

Peter Neill’s The Once and Future Ocean aspires to do nothing less than transform our relationship with the world’s most promising and imperiled natural element: the ocean and the inter-connected cycles of water, essential for all aspects of human survival in the 21st century. A successor to the work of Rachael Carson, Aldo Leopold, and Jonathan […]

Paul Smiths, N.Y. — IT’S a mistake to think the climatic effects of our carbon emissions will be over within a few decades or centuries. Our intergenerational responsibilities run much deeper into the future. In this new Anthropocene epoch, the “Age of Humans,” we have become so numerous, our technology so powerful, and our lives […]