Climate Change Institute

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 […]

CONSERVATION PALEOBIOLOGY ON ACADIA’S MOUNTAINS Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie Second Century Stewardship Fellow University of Maine Monday, February 3, 2020, 12pm 138 Sawyer Conference Room Abstract:  Conservation practitioners depend on accurate assessments of climate change vulnerability in allocating limited resources to protect and steward natural resources. The subalpine plants on Acadia National Park’s open granite ridges have […]

USDA FIELD STAFF USE OF CLIMATE AND WEATHER RESOURCES:  PERSPECTIVES ON RESPONDING TO CHANGE   Dr. Rachel Schattman Assistant Professor of Sustainable Agriculture University of Maine School of Food and […]

Gabriel Prieto Anthropology Department, University of Florida Exploring New Children and Camelid Sacrificial Sites in Huanchaco Bay: The Peak of the Iceberg? Tuesday, March 3, 2020 at 5:00 p.m. Free and open to the public In the Bodwell Area, Collins Center for the Arts In 2019, archaeologists announced the discovery of a mass sacrifice of […]