Climate Change Institute

  John Mahon receives Aspen Faculty Pioneer Award for his career achievements including the organization and leadership of a unique course in Abrupt Climate Change, Business and Policy taught with Paul Mayewski (Director CCI) and Mike Hastings (Director OSRP).     Mahonbio.pdf PR_Toolkit_Aspen_Faculty_Pioneer_Awards_2014.pdf

Background My research takes a unique viewpoint bridging two distinct histories. I am a trained anthropologist with a focus on human-environment interactions in the context of climate change. I am also a third generation lobsterman who has spent more than 22 years in Maine’s iconic lobster industry. I like to think that my background provides […]

National Geographic Society is funding an archaeological project this summer along the Adriatic Sea in Croatia, led by Gregory Zaro, University of Maine associate professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology. Zaro will be joined by colleagues from the University of Zadar, Croatia, and students from both the University of Zadar and UMaine. The […]

John K. DeLaski, M.D. practiced medicine in the Penobscot Bay region of Maine and, in addition, was a naturalist with keen powers of observation. His study of the landscape led to the conclusion that a thick glacier had overtopped the highest hills, flooded all of Penobscot Bay, extended far to the east and west and […]

The Free Press reported Kisei Tanaka, a doctoral student at the University of Maine, was one of several presenters at the 40th annual Maine Fishermen’s Forum held in Rockport. Tanaka, who spoke during a session on climate change, explained a new computer model developed to show prime lobster habitat in the Gulf of Maine, according […]

Jacquelyn Gill, an assistant professor of paleoecology and plant ecology at the University of Maine, was quoted in an article published in the journal Nature that focuses on sexual harassment and assault during field research and on campuses. The topic has gained less attention in scientific fields with greater gender equality, such as ecology, according […]

Ivan Fernandez, professor in the School of Forest Resources and the Climate Change Institute, introduced the Maine’s Climate Future: 2015 Update report at the Maine Organic Farmers and Growers Association’s conference “Farming in the Face of Climate Change” on March 7, in Unity, Maine. He described the report’s focus and the history of state activities […]

Ivan Fernandez, professor in the School of Forest Resources and the Climate Change Institute, was appointed to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board’s (SAB) Clear Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) in Washington DC. He will serve on the Secondary National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) Review Panel for Oxides of Nitrogen (NOx) and […]

The University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute (CCI) was mentioned in a Portland Press Herald article about Sen. Angus King partnering with Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska to influence U.S. policies on Arctic issues. King and Murkowski announced the creation of an “Arctic Caucus” in the Senate, stating they believe the United States should be […]

Earth’s Greenhouse Effect —  March 5, 2015     MAASCH: “If not for the greenhouse effect, life as we know it would not exist on this planet.” That’s Kirk Maasch of the University of Maine. He explains that like any good home in a cold region, our planet has a heating system. It’s called the […]