• The Chasing Icebergs Project – Dr. Kristin Schild – Brown Bag Seminar

    100 Bryand Global Sciences Center University of Maine

    During the summers of 2017 and 2018, Kristin Schild, along with colleagues from the University of Oregon, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and Scripps Institution of Oceanography conducted simultaneous glaciological and oceanographic field campaigns in Sermilik Fjord, southeast Greenland. The goal of the project was aimed at constructing a detailed picture of iceberg geometry and obtaining […]

  • Joseph Manning Lecture: Volcanoes, The Nile, and the End of Ancient Egypt

    100 Donald P. Corbett Bldg., University of Maine, Orono

    Tuesday, October 30, 2018 at 7:00 pm in 100 Donald P. Corbett Bldg, University of Maine, Orono   Manning will present recent research that integrates Paleoclimatology and Hellenistic history with a particular focus on Ptolemaic Egypt. His lecture will center on recent work that connects explosive volcanic eruptions and the impact of these volcanic eruptions […]

  • Arthur Anderson Lecture – Rescheduled

    232 South Stevens

    New Excavations at the Village of Chouacoet, Saco Bay, Maine Arthur Anderson, University of New England December 7, 2018 at 2:00 pm 232 South Stevens

  • A Research Agenda: Current Research Projects and Plans for Collaboration – Linda Markowsky

    138 Sawyer Environmental Research Building 138 Sawyer Env. Res. Building, University of Maine

    Thursday, February 7, 2019, 2PM 138 Sawyer Conference Room   Abstract: Automated and semi-automated systems that derive actionable information from massive, heterogeneous datasets are essential for many applications, and the reasoning of such systems must be as clear as possible in order to earn our trust. Lattice data analytics, a current research project, is intended […]

  • Discussion on Maine’s Climate and Data Tools – Sean Birkel

    Mitchell Center, Rm 107, University of Maine

    107 Norman Smith Hall SBE Seminar Series Dr. Sean Birkel is a Research Assistant Professor at the Climate Change Institute. He is also the Maine State Climatologist. Sean's research interests include climate modeling and data visualization across a spectrum of timescales from the Pleistocene to modern and future projected. He also has great interest in […]

  • Survival Skills for the Athropocene: What Marine Heatwaves and Other Ocean Surprises Can Teach Us About Living in a Warming World – Andrew Pershing

    100 Bryand Global Sciences Center University of Maine

    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 […]