• Climate on Tap – The UN Climate Negotiations – C. Isenhour & N. Micinski

    Nocturnem Draft House, 56 Main Street, Bangor, Maine

    The 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change took place last month in Dubai.  The meetings were of significant interest because they were - controversially - led by an Emerati with significant ties to the oil industry.  Despite this controversy, COP28 marked the completion of the first […]

  • Climate on Tap: A Frozen Penobscot Bay and Other Musing from Maine’s Climate Archives – S. Birkel & K. Maasch

    Nocturnem Draft House, 56 Main Street, Bangor, Maine

    Join Sean Birkel and Kirk Maasch as they open the vault on Maine's historical climate archives!    Many people are familiar with the fabled "Year Without a Summer" of 1816, when several unusually intense cold waves brought killing frost, and even snowfall, to Maine during the summer months. But fewer people know that during some […]

  • Thesis Proposal – Global Spatiotemporal Patterns of Pleistocene Large Mammal Extinction: Integrating the Evidence and Resolving the Contradictions – Nikhil Brocchini

    Bryand Global Science Center - Rm 300

    Thesis Proposal Global Spatiotemporal Patterns of Pleistocene Large Mammal Extinction: Integrating the Evidence and Resolving the Contradictions Nikhil Brocchini M.S. Student in Quaternary and Climate Studies Climate Change Institute University of Maine Thursday, March 21st, 2024, 3pm Bryand Global Sciences Building, Room 300 Email nikhil.brocchini@maine.edu for Zoom information

  • CLIMATE ON TAP – JOURNEY INTO CLIMATE – P. MAYEWSKI

    Nocturnem Draft House, 56 Main Street, Bangor, Maine

    Join Paul Andrew Mayewski as he recounts five decades of global exploration, discovery, and climate change research in some of Earth's most remote locations. Journey into Climate is told through the personal experiences of the internationally acclaimed glaciologist, climatologist, and polar explorer Paul Andrew Mayewski. He and his teams have traveled throughout Antarctica, the Himalayas, […]

  • 31st Annual Harold W. Borns, Jr. Symposium

    The Harold W. Borns, Jr. Symposium is an annual event that features presentations and discussion by Climate Change Institute graduate students and faculty on emerging research and topics related to global environmental change.   2024 Borns Symposium Schedule Zoom Link

  • 31st Annual Harold W. Borns, Jr. Symposium

    Bryand Global Science Center - Rm 300

    The Harold W. Borns, Jr. Symposium is an annual event that features presentations and discussion by Climate Change Institute graduate students and faculty on emerging research and topics related to global environmental change.   2024 Borns Symposium Schedule Zoom Link

  • PhD Dissertation Announcement – Scott Braddock

    Bryand Global Science Center - Rm 300

    Evidence for Quaternary Ice-mass Fluctuations of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet PhD Dissertation Announcement Scott Braddock In partial fulfillment of the degree requirements for the degree of Ph.D. in Earth and Climate Sciences Monday, April 15, 2024 at 4:00 PM EST In person and virtual Room: BGSC 300Zoom link: https://maine.zoom.us/j/89684905733?pwd=R1pWS3d6cEVRUDhFZ05LL2xJeVdxdz09Password: WAIS  

  • PhD Dissertation Defense – Suman Acharya

    Mitchell Center, Rm 107, University of Maine

    PhD Dissertation Defense Reframing Adaptation: A Multilevel Analysis of Collective Action, Power, and Politics of Climate Change Adaptation in Climate Vulnerable Communities Suman Acharya, Ph.D. Candidate Anthropology & Environmental Policy Friday, April 26, 2024 at 2:30 PM EDT Mitchell Center, Norman Smith Hall, Rm 107 OR Join via Zoom Link: https://maine.zoom.us/j/85354026234?pwd=NGhIUWlLSlFpMXJTOGRwRGtUemZ3QT09 Meeting ID: 853 5402 […]

  • PhD Dissertation Defense in Ecology and Environmental Science – Kit Hamley

    Mitchell Center, Rm 107, University of Maine

    KIT HAMLEY PhD Dissertation Defense in Ecology and Environmental Sciences ADVANCING RESEARCH and ENGAGEMENT to STRENGTHEN TIES between PALEOENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH and INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES MAY 28th - 12 pm EST NORMAN SMITH 107 MAINE.ZOOM.US/J/88343068711