Climate Change Institute

Documentary Series Featuring Mayewski Wins Emmy Award   A documentary about climate change that features a University of Maine explorer has won an Emmy Award. Paul Mayewski, director of UMaine’s Climate Change Institute, appeared in the ninth and final episode of Years of Living Dangerously, which aired weekly from April to June on Showtime. Developed […]

University of Maine professor Paul Mayewski is featured in the Showtime series Years of Living Dangerously starring Harrison Ford, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Matt Damon. It’s a thriller with an ending that hasn’t been written yet.   Executive producer James Cameron, who has also directed the blockbusters Avatar, The Terminator and Aliens, describes Years of Living […]

Human activity resulting from the Spanish conquest had a profound effect on coastal change in northwestern Peru, according to researchers at the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute. Daniel Belknap, a professor of Earth sciences, and Daniel Sandweiss, a professor of anthropology and Quaternary and climate studies, researched how demographic and economic effects of the […]

The Climate Change Institute was voted into membership of the University of the Arctic at its Council Meeting in British Columbia on 05 20. UArctic (http://www.uarctic.org) is an international network of institutions which are involved in higher education and research in the Circumpolar North. The University of the Arctic (UArctic) is a cooperative network of […]

Recovery from acid rain speeding up in Northeast lakes Apr 15, 2014   Strock KE, SJ Nelson, JS Kahl, JE Saros, WH McDowell. 2014. Decadal trends reveal recent acceleration in the rate of recovery from acidification in the Northeastern U.S. Environmental Science and Technology. dx.doi.org/10.1021/es404772n Synopsis by EHN Staff Lakes in the U.S. Northeast are […]

The Climate Change Institute proudly announces the award winners from the 22nd  Harold W. Borns Symposium held on April 17-18, 2014.   The Churchill Award for Outstanding Exploration (2014):        Walter Isle Beckwith      Charles I. Rodda   Harold W. Borns Symposium – Best Presentation Award (2014):       1st Place:  Katharine J. Ruskin      2nd […]

A University of Maine research team says stratification of the North Atlantic Ocean contributed to summer warming and glacial melting in Scotland during the period recognized for abrupt cooling 12,900 to 11,600 years ago in the Northern Hemisphere. Prevailing scientific understanding has been that glaciers advanced in the Northern Hemisphere throughout most of the Younger […]

Donna Kalteyer (Masters candidate – Quaternary & Climate Studies) has received a 2nd Place Finish at the 2014 University of Maine Graduate Exposition (Natural Sciences Poster Presentation Competition).

Dan Sandweiss (Professor of Anthropology and Climate Studies) was recently elected to a 3-year term as a member of the Board of Directors of the Society for American Archaeology (www.saa.org), the leading professional society for archaeologists in the Americas. Sandweiss’s term begins at the SAA Annual Meeting this April.

The Climate Change Institute proudly announces six newly established award opportunities for CCI graduate students:  The Churchill Award for Outstanding Exploration, the Climate Change Institute Student Outstanding Service Award, the Climate Change Institute Outstanding Thesis Award, the Climate Change Institute Outstanding Dissertation Award, the Borns Best Student Presentation Awards and the Borns Best Student Poster […]