Andrew J. Pershing Chief Scientific Officer, Gulf of Maine Research Institute Friday, February 15, 2019, 2:30 PM 100 BGSC   Abstract: The community of species as well as human institutions and activities at a given location have been shaped by historical conditions (both mean and variability) at that location. Anthropogenic climate change is now adding […]

107 Norman Smith Hall SBE Seminar Series Dr. Northington is an ecologist interested in how climate change influences aquatic ecosystem processes. His research focuses on changes in aquatic productivity and biogeochemistry, along with altered aquatic-terrestrial linkages in Arctic and temperate aquatic systems. Currently, Dr. Northington is an Assistant Professor of Biology and Environmental Science at […]

Alice R. Kelley, Climate Change Institute & School of Earth and Climate Sciences, UMaine Bonnie Newsom, Dept. of Anthropology, UMaine The Maine Midden Minders is a volunteer, citizen science organization being developed to help document and moni-tor Maine’s eroding shell middens. These features are composed of mollusk shells, artifacts, and faunal remains, and archive up […]

“Hidden Energy: Agriculture's Long-Term Sustainability" Professor Geoff Cunfer, University of Saskatchewan Monday, Oct. 21 3:00 – 4:30 pm Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall For most of human history, farmers were society’s crucial energy suppliers. Agriculture set the limits of economic productivity. This pubic lecture explains how methods from sustainability science can reveal how farmers historically managed […]

Holocene climate change in southern Greenland from chironomid assemblages and oxygen isotopes in lake sediments Dr. Melissa Chipman, Syracuse University Thursday, October 24, 1 pm ~ Bryand 307 The Arctic is the most rapidly warming place on earth, and paleorecords offer insight into how this vast region responded to a complex suite of past changes. […]

A tale of ice and fire – using lake sediments to understand fire regimes and permafrost thaw in the Arctic Dr. Melissa Chipman  - Syracuse University Friday, October 24, 3:10 pm ~ Murray 102 Amplified warming has facilitated dramatic examples of disturbance in the Arctic. Both tundra and boreal areas have experienced unprecedented wildfire activity […]

CLIMATE CHANGE INSTITUTE LECTURE SERIES MODELING MOUNTAIN GLACIERS TO INFER PAST CLIMATE CHANGES Alice Doughty Visiting Assistant Professor in Geology Bates College   Wednesday, November 13, 2019, 1 PM 307 Bryand Global Science Center Abstract:  Glaciers advance in response to cooling temperatures and retreat in response to warming temperatures.  In addition to this general relationship, […]

Jennifer Frist, MSW, PhD Assistant Professor, School of Social Work University of Southern Maine   Thursday, November 14, 2019, 11am 138 Sawyer Conference Room Abstract:  Climate change and disaster events are growing reality in communities across the globe. Climate-change induced disaster events can cause significant psychological harm and result in a range of mental health […]

Disaster, Climate, and Sustainable Development - An Interdisciplinary Approach Masa Haraguchi, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University   Friday, November 15, 2019 - 3:00 PM 309 Boardman Hall

Dr. Jack Williams, UW Madison Thursday, January 30, 2020 4 pm, Nutting 100   The last deglaciation in eastern North America offers a classic system for studying climate-driven forest range dynamics during large and abrupt climate changes, but paleoclimate and paleofire records are surprisingly scarce. In this talk, I will first present new reconstructions of […]