Climate Change Institute

A team of scientists from nine nations led by Dr. Nancy Bertler Victoria University’s Antarctic Research Center and GNS Science (New Zealand), have made a huge breakthrough in Antarctica—successfully drilling more than 760m through the ice to the bedrock, on an island in the Ross Sea.  They completed the drilling in late December when the […]

UMaine Gets $3 Million NSF IGERT Award For An Adaptation To Abrupt Climate Change Program The need to adapt environmental policies and management strategies to meet the social and ecological challenges caused by abrupt climate change events around the world is the focus of a new graduate program at the University of Maine beginning this […]

Researchers with UMaine’s Climate Change Institute will be blogging while on a trip to South Georgia Island in the South Atlantic Ocean. The expedition members are Climate Change Institute Director Paul Mayewski, UMaine graduate students Bjorn Grigholm and Mariusz Potocki, UMaine postdoctoral researcher Dan Dixon, Chilean researchers Gino Casassa and Marcelo Arevalo, EMT medic Alex […]

View the YouTube film by Paul A. Mayewski in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Climate Change Institute.  

Precipitation variability in the winter rainfall zone of South Africa during the last 1400 yr linked to the austral westerlies J. C. Stager1,2 , P. A. Mayewski2 , J. White1 , B. M. Chase3,4 , F. H. Neumann5,6 , M. E. Meadows7 , C. D. King1 , and D. A. Dixon2 1Natural Sciences, Paul Smith’s […]

CCI is about to launch an interactive tool  10Green  that provides a comprehensive assessment of the health of your environment. 10Green leverages decades of ice core research that has allowed us to understand how the chemistry of Earth’s atmosphere has changed as a consequence of human activities. For more details go to: http://climatechange.umaine.edu/icecores/ 10Green uses […]

The Breathe Project is a coalition of residents, businesses, government and many other groups in southwestern Pennsylvania that are working together to clean up our air for the health of our families and economy. Despite improvements over the past few decades, the region’s air still ranks among the worst in the nation, exacerbating asthma and causing other […]

A recent expedition to Chile by Paul Mayewski, director of UMaine’s Climate Change Institute, and a team of other UMaine scientists, was featured in the Bangor Daily News. The article noted the group drilled ice cores in a crater inside an active volcano. Mayewski told the BDN the region is important because the glaciers there […]

Gordon Hamilton, an associate professor in UMaine’s Climate Change Institute, was quoted in a Boston Herald story about the possible reasons behind the region’s unseasonably warm weather. Hamilton said although climatic phenomenon are partly to blame for the current jet stream trajectory and warm air flow, the bigger cause of the current weather pattern is […]

The Fate of Greenland: Lessons from Abrupt Climate Change (Denton et al.) has won the 2011 American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE Award) in the Earth Sciences category (http://www.proseawards.com/current-winners.html). The PROSE Awards are presented by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division of the Association of American Publishers (AAP) and annually recognize […]