Climate Change Institute

Inga Kindstedt - Dissertation Proposal Defense
2023-09-01 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York)
Characterizing glacier accumulation zone
near-surface processes in the St. Elias
Mountains (Yukon, Canada)
Inga Kindstedt
Dissertation Proposal Defense

Friday, September 1, 2023 at 11AM EDT
On zoom
https://maine.zoom.us/j/84970303520?pwd=[REDACTED]

CCI DEI Committee Meeting
2023-10-30 12:00 - 13:00, 2023-11-13 12:00 - 13:00, 2023-11-27 12:00 - 13:00, 2023-12-04 12:00 - 13:00

I-PhD Dissertation Defense - Doug Hasson
2023-11-27 10:00 - 11:00
I-PhD Dissertation Defense – Doug Hasson
Title: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEW – HOW RAPID CLIMATE CHANGE IS IMPACTING HUMAN HEALTH, ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY, AND VOTER BEHAVIOR
Time: Nov 27, 2023 10:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://maine.zoom.us/j/88517288374?pwd=[REDACTED]

Defense Announcement - Mikaila Mannello
2023-11-28 09:00 - 10:00 | Bryand Global Science Center – Rm 300
Defense Announcement
Mikaila Mannello
In partial fulfillment of the degree requirements for the degree of
M.S. in Quaternary and Climate Studies
Spatial and Temporal Variability in Snow Properties and Firn Volume Across the Juneau Icefield in Southeast Alaska

Tuesday, November 28 at 9 am
Bryand Global Science Center Room 300
Or join via Zoom:
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Defense Announcement - Sydney Baratta
2023-11-29 13:00 - 14:00 | 100 Bryand Global Sciences Center, University of Maine
Defense Announcement
Sydney Baratta
In partial fulfillment of the degree requirements for the degree of M.S.
In Earth and Climate Sciences
Quantifying Tidewater Glacier-Fjord Environments in the
Rapidly Changing Regions of West and South Greenland

Wednesday, November 29th, 2023 at 1:00 pm
Bryand Global Science Center, room 100
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CLIMATE ON TAP - ICE AGE CSI - How Mammonth Dung, Permafrost Mummies, and Tiny Fossils are Solving an Ancient Murder Mystery - Jacquelyn Gill
2023-12-13 17:30 - 18:30 | Nocturnem Draft House, 56 Main Street, Bangor, Maine

Climate on Tap - The UN Climate Negotiations - C. Isenhour & N. Micinski
2024-01-31 17:30 - 18:30 | 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 Global Stocktake, a 5-year process designed to evaluate collective progress toward the goals of the Paris Agreement. Dr. Isenhour and Dr. Micinski will share key insights from the meetings – including some exciting headline and headwinds, as well as quite a few headscratchers.

Jan. 31, 2024. (5:30 – 6:30 PM)
Nocturnem Draft House
56 Main Street, Bangor, Maine

Climate on Tap: A Frozen Penobscot Bay and Other Musing from Maine's Climate Archives - S. Birkel & K. Maasch
2024-02-28 17:30 - 18:30 | 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 of the coldest winters of the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries the Penobscot Bay froze, permitting foot- and even vehicle -traffic on ice between the mainland and islands. Some winters were so intense that “ice embargoes” brought ship travel to a halt along the East Coast in Long Island Sound and Chesapeake Bay – a stark contrast with today’s climate.

February 28th, 2024
Nocturnem Draft Haus, 56 Main Street, Bangor, ME
5:30 – 6:30 PM

Thesis Proposal - Global Spatiotemporal Patterns of Pleistocene Large Mammal Extinction: Integrating the Evidence and Resolving the Contradictions - Nikhil Brocchini
2024-03-21 15:00 - 16:30 | 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
2024-03-27 17:30 - 18:30 | 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, Greenland, the South American Andes, and the Southern Ocean to understand how and why climate changes. By living and working in some of the most remote places on Earth, their journey documents the critical role played by past climate changes on the course of civilization. Mayewski has many media appearances, including multiple “CBS 60 Minutes” episodes and the Emmy Award winning “Years of Living Dangerously.”
March 27TH – 5:30 – 6:30 PN
Nocturnem Draft Haus, 56 Main Street, Bangor, Maine

31st Annual Harold W. Borns, Jr. Symposium
2024-04-10 12:30 - 18:00
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
2024-04-11 08:00 - 15:00 | Bryand Global Science Center – Rm 300

PhD Dissertation Announcement - Scott Braddock
2024-04-15 16:00 - 17:00 | 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=[REDACTED] WAIS

PhD Dissertation Defense - Suman Acharya
2024-04-26 14:30 - 15:30 | 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=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 853 5402 6234
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PhD Dissertation Defense in Ecology and Environmental Science - Kit Hamley
2024-05-28 12:00 - 13:30 | 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

PhD Dissertation Defense - Václava Hazuková
2024-05-29 10:00 - 23:00 | Bryand Global Science Center – Rm 300
Václava Hazuková
PhD Dissertation Defense
Physical and biological responses to climate-driven shifts in Greenland lakes across multiple temporal and spatial scales
Wednesday May 29th, 10:00 am
Bryand Global Science Center, room 300
Zoom: https://maine.zoom.us/j/84139562136?pwd=[REDACTED]
For more information or a disability accommodation, please contact Václava Hazuková at vaclava.hazukova@maine.edu.

Master’s Thesis Defense - Ansley Grider
2024-06-19 09:00 - 22:00 | Bryand Global Science Center – Rm 300
Master’s Thesis Defense
Ansley Grider, M.S. Student in Ecology and Environmental Science

SAUNNA NRT Trainee, Climate Change Institute

Biogeochemical Consequences of a Changing Cryosphere: Assessing Spatial and Temporal Variability in Arctic and sub-Arctic Lake Chemistry
June 19th, 2024 @ 9 am
Bryand Global Science Center Room 300

To participate via Zoom, use the link below:
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Meeting ID: 859 1624 3724

PhD Defense Announcement - Wouter Hantson
2024-06-25 13:00 - 14:00 | 204 Nutting Hall
PhD Defense Announcement For:
Wouter Hantson
School of Forest Resources
In partial fulfillment of the requirement for the Degree of
Doctor of Philosophy in Forest Resources
Scaling, Modeling, and Resilience of the Arctic-
Boreal Ecosystem

Tuesday, June 25th
Room 204 Nutting Hall
1:00 PM

https://maine.zoom.us/j/87919945975

M.S. THESIS DEFENSE - Karina M. Cortijo-Robles
2024-07-31 10:00 - 11:30
Karina M. Cortijo-Robles
M.S. THESIS DEFENSE
Reconstructing the Paleotempestology Record of Tibes
Indigenous Ceremonial Center at Ponce, Puerto Rico

Wednesday July 31st, 2024 at 10:00 am
Only by Zoom:

The defense will be in a virtual format on July 31, 2024 at 10:00 am since I’m in Puerto Rico.
Zoom Link: https://maine.zoom.us/j/81592367194?pwd=[REDACTED]

Ice Age Breaker
2024-10-09 16:00 - 18:00 | Bryand Global Science Center – Rm 300
The Ice Age Breaker event will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 9 (4:00 – 6:00) in Bryand Global Science Center – RM 300. The purpose of this event is to introduce faculty and resources available at CCI to students. All Climate Change Institute Faculty, Staff, and Graduate Students are encouraged to attend.
At this “Ice-Age Breaker Event”, faculty, staff, and post doc’s would be asked to speak for about 90 seconds, and may show one slide about their main research interest–flash presentations.

CLIMATE ON TAP - THAT'S JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG! - K. SCHILD
2024-10-30 17:30 - 18:30 | Nocturnem Draft House, 56 Main Street, Bangor, Maine

Alessandro Mereghetti - PhD Dissertation Defense
2024-12-04 10:00 - 12:00 | Bryand Global Science Center – Rm 300
Alessandro Mereghetti – Dissertation Defense
PhD Candidate in Ecology & Environmental Sciences
That’s One Big Pile of Reconstructing Megafauna Vegetation
Interactions Across Spatial and Temporal Scales

Nikhil Brocchini - MS Defense
2024-12-05 12:00 - 13:30 | Bryand Global Science Center – Rm 300
Candidate for the M.S. in Quaternary and Climate Studies
Nikhil Brocchini

Global Spatiotemporal Patterns of Pleistocene Large Mammal Extinction: Integrating the Evidence and Resolving the Contradictions.

S. Campbell - Climate on Tap - Frozen Mysteries
2025-01-29 17:30 - 18:30 | Nocturnem Draft House, 56 Main Street, Bangor, Maine

Climate on Tap - Perturbed!! El Nino Past and Present
2025-02-19 17:30 - 18:30 | Nocturnem Draft House, 56 Main Street, Bangor, Maine
February 19 – 5:30 PM
Nocturnem Draft Haus
56 Main Street, Bangor

Featuring: Dr. Dan Sandweiss, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Climate Change Institute; Dr. Kirk Maasch, Professor, School of Earth and Climate Sciences and Climate Change Institute.

Climate on Tap - March 26 - 5:30 PM
2025-03-26 17:30 - 18:30 | Nocturnem Draft House, 56 Main Street, Bangor, Maine

SBE MS Thesis Proposal - Elijah Bradshaw
2025-04-04 09:00 - 10:00 | Bryand Global Science Center – Rm 300
SBE MS Thesis Proposal
Elijah Bradshaw

Investigating the Spatiotemporal patterns of Asimina triloba since the Last Glacial Maximum
April 4, 2025
300 Bryand Global Science Center – 9:00 AM
