Climate Change Institute

“Maine’s Climate Future: 2015 Update,” a new report from the University of Maine, was featured in stories by the Maine Public Broadcasting Network and the Associated Press. The report highlights the effects of climate change in Maine, such as intense precipitation events, warming temperatures in the atmosphere and ocean, and rising sea levels. Ivan Fernandez, […]

UMaine report updates climate challenges, encourages proactive preparation. ORONO, Maine — Continuing or accelerating warming of the atmosphere and ocean. Intense precipitation events. Rising sea levels. These are signs of climate change, and all of them are affecting Maine people, according to Maine’s Climate Future: 2015 Update, a new report from the University of Maine. […]

Sean Birkel, a research assistant professor at the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, was quoted in the Portland Press Herald article, “Ocean scientists report ‘unprecedented’ spike in sea level off Portland several years ago.” Scientists at the University of Arizona, with help from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, found sea levels off Portland […]

Connecting K–12 students in Maine and around the world with researchers in the field is the goal of a new program offered by the University of Maine Cooperative Extension with support from UMaine’s Climate Change Institute (CCI) and the Maine 4-H Foundation. Follow a Researcher aims to give students a glimpse into a scientist’s world […]

Bangor Daily News – Feb. 20, 2015 Courtesy of the Penobscot Marine MuseumDuring the cold winter of 1904-1905, Mainers enjoyed taking horse-drawn sleighs across the frozen expanse of Belfast Harbor to check out the Monument, a nautical marker that is at least a half mile from land. By Abigail Curtis, BDN Staff Feb. 19, 2015, […]

  Robert Thomas: an essential pioneer in establishing modern understanding of how ice shelves influence ice-sheet stability, and trailblazer in evolving the objective study of ice sheets from the dog-sled equipped ground-survey era to the modern era of strategic remote sensing. Bob passed after suffering a stroke in early January. (further information to follow).

Paul Mayewski, director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, co-wrote an opinion piece on climate change for the Bangor Daily News with Darryl W. Lyon, a lieutenant colonel in the Maine National Guard. The article is titled “Maine is a leader in confronting climate change in the High North.”

University of Maine Climate Change Institute scientists Paul Mayewski, Sean Birkel and Ivan Fernandez shared their research about climate change with Keith Shortall on MPBN’s Maine Calling, an interactive radio program.

Video Link:   Video Transcript Paul Mayewski: Climate change has always happened. There are natural climate changes and then today, we of course have the dramatically added influence of human activity. Weather in general make, those are the building blocks of climate, so you take the weather over a full year, several years and that […]

Maximum Impact The Federal Emergency Management Agency is monitoring infrastructure repair efforts around Atlantic City, New Jersey, where Superstorm Sandy killed 73 and caused billions of dollars in damage when it barreled ashore a little more than two years ago. In January, Brian Olsen, assistant professor of biology and ecology, will start gauging the restoration […]