Climate Change Institute

Millennial-scale cold reversals in the high latitudes of both hemispheres interrupted the last transition from full glacial to interglacial climate conditions. The presence of the Younger Dryas stadial (~12.9 to ~11.7 kyr ago) is established throughout much of the Northern Hemisphere, but the global timing, nature and extent of the event are not well established. […]

The contribution of the East Antarctic ice sheet to the 120 m of sea-level rise since the Last Glacial Maximum is unclear.  New terrestrial and marine data suggest the thinning of East Antarctic ice was responsible for only a metre of this rise.   Nature Geoscience, Vol. 4, March 2011

Dr. Paul Mayewski, the director of UMaine’s Climate Change Institute, was mentioned in a story on the website Physorg.com about the importance of collaborations between the fields of history and science, particularly climate science. Mayewski was mentioned as having been part of such a collaboration with a Harvard historian, which was considered the first of […]

Tobias Koffman has been awarded the prestigious 3-year National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) provides fellowships to individuals selected early in their graduate careers based on their demonstrated potential for significant achievements in science and engineering.  Three years of support is provided by the program for graduate study […]

Congratulations to Hal Borns  Dr. Harold Borns, Jr., PhD has been selected by the Maine Health Care Association for its “Remember Me” photography exhibition and Lifetime Achievement Award, placing a human face on long term care.  Hal will be honored at the State House in Augusta on April 15th, 2011.   Remember ME: One of […]

Curt Stager, a paleoclimatologist and adjunct research faculty member of UMaine’s Climate Change Institute, was interviewed for a Toronto Star story about his new book, “Deep Future: The Next 100,000 Years of Life on Earth.” The book, which was released earlier this month, focuses on the current era of the earth’s history, when humans have […]

A new study co-authored by Gordon Hamilton and former CCI doctoral student and postdoc Leigh Stearns provides important insights into the potential role of the ocean in triggering widespread dynamic changes of Greenland’s outlet glaciers. The paper appears in Nature Geoscience.

UMaine’s Paul Mayewski is set to give a talk on March 31, about the role humans play in climate change, according to a Bangor Daily News story. Mayewski, the director of the Climate Change Institute at UMaine, will speak in Hutchins Hall at the Collins Center for the Arts. The talk, which starts at 7 […]

February 24, 2011 NSF Press Release 11-039 How severe can climate change become in a warming world? Worse than anything we’ve seen in written history, according to results of a study appearing this week in the journal Science. An international team of scientists led by Curt Stager of Paul Smith’s College, New York, has compiled […]

A University of Maine oceanographer is representing the university in a new consortium exploring the potential impact of iron fertilization of the oceans in order to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Fei Chai, a professor in UMaine’s School of Marine Sciences and cooperative professor in UMaine’s Climate Change Institute, has joined […]