Climate Change Institute

The website Adventures in Climate Change is running all of the blog entries about a team of scientists from the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute who are on an expedition in the Tupungatito Glacier, located in a volcanic crater at an elevation of 19,000 feet in the Andes Mountains in Chile. Paul Mayewski, director […]

Kristin Sobolik of UMaine’s Department of Anthropology and Climate Change Institute was noted in a story on the website io9.com for her work in paleofecal research. The story said there was a big breakthrough in human DNA extraction when Sobolik suggested samples found in Hinds Cave in Texas be tested.

September 12, 2012 – 1:00 – 2:00 PM; Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall, Room 165 Jeffrey Thaler, ESQ, Visiting Professor of Energy Policy, Law & Ethics, University of Maine & Maine Law School As the World Burns:  From Climate Science to Renewable Energy Policy and Justice Jeff Thaler is the University of Maine’s first Visiting Professor […]

 A team of scientists from the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute is currently on an expedition in Chilé, traveling to the Tupungatito Glacier, located in a volcanic crater at an elevation of 19,000 feet in the Andes Mountains.  The expedition team, which we call TE2012, is comprised of members from the Climate Change Institute […]

University of Maine ecologist Jasmine Saros provided research for a groundbreaking finding about the long-term effects of pollution published in the Dec. 16 issue of the journal Science. The research team, led by Gordon Holtgrieve, a University of Washington postdoctoral researcher, found that nitrogen derived from human activities has polluted lakes throughout the Northern Hemisphere […]

University of Maine ecologist Jasmine Saros provided research for a groundbreaking finding about the long-term effects of pollution published in the Dec. 16 issue of the journal Science. The research team, led by Gordon Holtgrieve, a University of Washington postdoctoral researcher, found that nitrogen derived from human activities has polluted lakes throughout the Northern Hemisphere […]

Like many nations with a growing population, South Korea is facing a major overhaul of its water infrastructure. Such an overhaul is even more important on the Korean peninsula, which bears the brunt of some of the most brutal tropical storms on the planet. And climate-change models predict even larger and stronger typhoons on the […]

Wednesday’s unseasonably warm temperature prompted a report in the Lewiston Sun Journal that included an interview with Sean Birkel, a post-doctoral research associate at UMaine’s Climate Change Institute. Birkel said one spell of above- or below-normal weather is not necessarily a symptom of climate change, but historical temperatures show Maine is warming, especially the winters.

CCI’s Ice Core Perspectives website provides an introductory guide for understanding the importance of ice cores in climate research.   The website reveals how ice cores have provided a unique historical perspective on the Earth’s climate including the assessment of human influences on the modern environment. Link to Ice Core Perspectives Website

The University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the taking of the South Pole with two days of events including a keynote address by polar explorer Olav Orheim. Orheim will speak at 7 p.m. on Nov. 21, at the Collins Center for the Arts on the UMaine campus. He will […]