Climate Change Institute

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]