Climate Change Institute

Ice Age Breaker
2024-10-09 16:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | 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

Proposal Defense - Miranda Seixas
2025-04-04 15:00 - 16:00 | Bryand Global Science Center – Rm 300
Miranda Seixas:
Proposal Defense
Investigating microbial community composition and function across freshwater systems in the Arctic cryosphere
3PM • APRIL 4, 2025 • ROOM 300 • BRYAND GLOBAL SCIENCE CENTER

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense - Meghan Spoth
2025-04-07 13:00 - 14:30 | Bryand Global Science Center – Rm 300
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense – Meghan Spoth
A Multi-proxy Approach to Reconstructing Mid-Latitude Westerly Wind Belts since the Last Ice Age
Monday, April 7, 2025 at 1 pm
Bryand Global Science Center – Rm 300
Meeting ID 846 2002 5346
https://maine.zoom.us/j/84620025346?pwd=[REDACTED]

M.S. Defense Announcement: Ana M. Trueba
2025-04-14 13:00 - 14:30 | Bryand Global Science Center – Rm 300
Defense Announcement:
Ana M. Trueba
Candidate for the M.S. in the Quaternary and Climate Studies
Do Unprecedented Weather Extremes Since Early 2022 Have an Association with the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai Eruption?
Monday, April 14, 2025, at 1:00 PM.
Bryand Global Sciences Center, Rm. 300
Or on Zoom:
https://maine.zoom.us/j/81231354886?pwd=[REDACTED]
Photo courtesy Tonga Geological Survey

M.S. Defense - Olivia Olson
2025-04-14 14:00 - 15:00 | 355 Stevens Hall, 355 Stevens Hall
Olivia Olson
Candidate for the M.S.
in Quaternary and
Climate Studies
Thesis Defense
Birdsong: Multivocality in Human-Bird Relationships
in the Ceramic Period in Wabanaki Homeland:
A Case Study at the Frazer Point Site
(ME 44-49; ACAD 0110), Schoodic Peninsula, Maine

April 14, 2025
2:00 pm EST
355 Stevens Hall
University of Maine, Orono

https://maine.zoom.us/j/86549164702?pwd=[REDACTED]

PhD Dissertation Defense - Erin Victor
2025-04-16 09:00 - 10:00 | 232A South Stevens Hall
PHD Defense, AEP Candidate Erin Victor
“The Politics of Disposable Packaging”
9am, April 16th in 232A South Stevens Hall

HTTPS://MAINE.ZOOM.US/J/8363908035

32nd Annual Harold W. Borns, Jr. Symposium - Day 1
2025-04-16 12:00 - 18:30 | 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.
2025 Borns Symposium
The 32th Annual Harold W. Borns, Jr. Symposium will be held on April 16-17, 2025 at the Harold W. Borns, Jr. Polar Facility, Room 300 Bryand Global Sciences Center, University of Maine.
DAVID CLAYTON SMITH INVITED LECTURE – APRIL 16, 2025 – 3:00 PM

Dr. Bonnie Newsom, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Faculty Associate – Climate Change Institute, University of Maine. A Million Sunrises at Schoodic: Archaeological Research on the Muted Histories at Frazer Point, Acadia National Park, Maine

INVITED UNIVERSITY OF MAINE ALUMNA LECTURE – APRIL 17, 2025 – 1:30 PM

Dr. Rachel A. Fowler, School of Biology & Ecology, University of Maine. Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) on the Horizon: Building a Risk Scoreboard for Lakes in Acadia National Park, Maine.

2025 BORNS SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE
Zoom link:
https://maine.zoom.us/j/81579302174?pwd=[REDACTED]

Link to pre-recorded talks already loaded on our YouTube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE0GTgdEaYJDE1bQRfa4jnI8tHCt6qxDY

32nd Annual Harold W. Borns, Jr. Symposium - Day 2
2025-04-17 08:00 - 17:00 | Bryand Global Science Center – Rm 300

Dissertation Proposal - Andrea Tirrell
2025-04-18 09:00 - 10:30 | Bryand Global Science Center – Rm 300
Dissertation Proposal – Andrea Tirrell
Understanding the resilience of Arctic & alpine plant communities: field surveys, herbarium collections, and public attitudes towards conservation in the northeastern United States & Canada
Field surveys, herbarium collections, and public attitudes towards conservation in the northeastern United States & Canada

Friday, April 18th @ 9am
in Bryand Room 300 or on Zoom here: https://maine.zoom.us/j/87089580075

PhD Dissertation Defense - Maraina Miles
2025-04-18 15:00 - 16:30 | Bryand Global Science Center – Rm 300
A Glacial-Geologic Approach to Understanding Past Climate Change and Ice-Sheet Stability
A PhD dissertation defense by Maraina Miles
Friday, April 18th at 3:00 pm
Bryand Global Sciences Center. – Room 300

zoom: https://maine.zoom.us/j/81620610000?pwd=[REDACTED]

PhD Defense Announcement - Lizi Gadrani
2025-04-22 10:00 - 11:30 | Bryand Global Science Center – Rm 300
PhD Defense Announcement
Lela Gadrani

Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions from Ice Cores Using Advanced Analytical Techniques

Tuesday, April 22th – 10am
300 Bryand Global Science Center
https://maine.zoom.us/j/88377098652?pwd=[REDACTED]

Thesis Defense l Samantha Baumgartner Candidate for the M.S. in Quaternary and Climate Studies
2025-04-24 12:00 - 13:00 | Bryand Global Science Center – Rm 300
Samantha Baumgartner
Candidate for the M.S. in Quaternary and Climate Studies
Thesis Defense
Standard Testing and Analysis in Ice Using LA-ICP-MS

April 24th, 2025 – 12 pm EST
Bryand Global Sciences Center, Room 300
Or by Zoom:

https://maine.zoom.us/j/85139554799?pwd=[REDACTED]

M.S. Thesis Defense - Sera Thomas
2025-04-24 12:00 - 13:00 | Bryand Global Sciences Center – Room 307
M.S. Thesis Defense
Sera Thomas
A Geochronological Record of Ice Extent at Bahía Penhoat, Chile, During the Antarctic Cold Reversal
April 24, 12:00 PM
Bryand Global Science Center – Room 307

https://maine.zoom.us/j/6893617353?omn=89692897988
Meeting ID 689 361 7353

Dissertation Defense - Madi Landrum
2025-04-25 09:00 - 10:00 | Bryand Global Science Center – Rm 300
Dissertation Defense
Madi Landrum
PhD Candidate in Ecology & Environmental Sciences

People, Fire, and Climate
Exploring Human Environment Relationships Over the Holocene

April 25 – 9:00 AM
300 Bryand Global Science Center

Doctoral Thesis Proposal - Leonardo Villacís
2025-04-28 13:00 - 14:00 | Bryand Global Sciences Center – Room 307
Doctoral Thesis Proposal
Leonardo Villacís

Bridging the Neo and Paleoecology of the Diatom Genus Aulacoseira in Temperate Lakes
Monday, April 28 1 pm
Bryand Global Science Center – Room 307

zoom link: https://maine.zoom.us/j/86295866433

Thesis Defense Announcement - Keegan Bellamy
2025-05-09 14:00 - 15:00 | Bryand Global Science Center – Rm 300
Thesis Defense Announcement
Keegan Bellamy
Candidate for M.S. in Earth and Climate Sciences
Spatial and temporal variability of temperate snowpack properties in northern
Maine and southeast Alaska with multi-offset ground-penetrating radar

Friday, May 9th at 2:00pm EDT
Bryand Global Sciences Center, Room 300
or join via Zoom: Meeting link
Meeting ID: 885 4749 3375

Dissertation Proposal Presentation - Elizabeth Rodgers
2025-05-14 12:00 - 13:00 | Mitchell Center, Rm 107, University of Maine
Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Research as Heritage Work: Reclaiming Pottery Traditions in Wabanaki Homeland
Elizabeth Rodgers
Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Student

May 14th, 2025
12 pm EDT
Norman Smith Hall 107
University of Maine, Orono

Zoom available by registration: https://maine.zoom.us/meeting/register/SOxyFeZISa2ZP6tTDHHhtQ

PhD defense - Bailey McLaughlin
2025-07-25 10:00 - 11:30 | Bryand Global Science Center – Rm 300
Bailey McLaughlin
PhD Defense
7.25.25 @ 10am EST
Bryand Hall Rm 300
Zoom Info: Meeting ID: 867 3940 3007 / Password: [REDACTED]
Zoom Link: https://maine.zoom.us/j/86739403007?pwd=[REDACTED]

Master's Thesis Defense - Mari Fromstein
2025-08-18 13:00 - 14:00 | Bryand Global Science Center – Rm 300
Master’s Thesis Defense
Mari Fromstein
“Comparison of Measured and Modeled Ice Thicknesses, Eastern and Southeast Alaska”
Monday 18 August, 1pm EDT
Bryand 300
Zoom: https://maine.zoom.us/j/86008703423
Meeting ID: 860 0870 3423

CCI Lecture Series -Lino Augusto Sander de Carvalho, Institute of Geosciences, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
2025-09-22 12:00 - 13:00 | Bryand Global Science Center – Rm 300
SATELLITE APPLICATIONS FOR BRAZIL’S
ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES: THE ROLE OF
LASA/UFRJ IN CLIMATE EXTREMES RESEARCH
Lino Augusto Sander de Carvalho
Department of Meteorology
Institute of Geosciences, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Monday, September 22nd, 12PM
300 Bryand Global Science Center
https://maine.zoom.us/j/81207024548?pwd=[REDACTED]

Abstract: The Laboratory For Environmental Satellite Applications (Laboratório de Aplicações de Satélites
Ambientais – LASA) at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro –
UFRJ) leverages remote sensing data and climate modeling to address environmental and climate challenges across
Brazil’s impacted ecosystems. Among its key initiatives is ALARMES, a real-time satellite-based fire monitoring and early
warning system that provides rapid detection and tracking of vegetation fires, thereby supporting emergency response
and environmental management efforts nationwide. LASA also conducts advanced research on the increasing frequency
of compound drought and atmospheric heatwave events and their role in triggering severe wildfire outbreaks, such as the
2020 Pantanal fires, while investigating the consequent impacts on urban health and mortality. Additionally, the
laboratory integrates satellite observations with atmospheric models to improve the understanding of water cycle
variability and inform water resource management in Brazil’s major river basins. Complementing these efforts, LASA
applies inland, coastal and ocean remote sensing to monitor water ecosystems and processes critical for climate
adaptation along Brazil’s extensive coastline. Furthermore, research on urban climate dynamics, including urban heat
islands, air quality, and socio-environmental vulnerabilities, informs sustainable urban planning and resilience strategies.
Through these multidisciplinary approaches, LASA expects to contribute to vital knowledge and tools to support Brazil’s
response to climate change, offering insights relevant to global climate resilience and adaptation efforts.

Hanna Brooks - PhD Defense Announcement
2025-10-01 09:00 - 10:30 | Bryand Global Science Center – Rm 300
A 1200-year history of
heavy metal deposition
in sub-Arctic Alaska
Hanna Brooks
PhD Defense
10.1.2025 @ 9am
Bryand Hall Rm 300
Zoom Link: https://maine.zoom.us/j/4607165338?omn=88514946820
Password: [REDACTED]

CCI 2025 Ice Age Breaker - Monday, October 20 (12:00 - 2:00 PM)
2025-10-20 12:00 - 14:00 | Bryand Global Science Center – Rm 300
The ICE AGE BREAKER event will be held Monday, OCTOBER 20th from 12-2 PM in room 300 Bryand Global.
Pizza will be provided for this event, so please click on the link below and register for this event.
https://forms.gle/CSLG8AQzYLkAbk7j7
Registration for this event is required by Thursday, October 16, 2025.

The purpose of this event is to introduce faculty and resources available at CCI to students. All Climate Change Institute Faculty and Staff are encouraged to attend. Graduate Students affiliated with CCI are expected to attend unless they have class or a formal job at this time.
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.
After the flash presentations, we will serve pizza in room 307 Bryand Global.

Halcyon String Quartet: Tipping Points. Multi-Media Experience on Climate Change - Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025 - Pre-concert talk 6 p.m. | Concert 7 p.m
2025-10-23 18:00 - 20:00 | Minsky Concert Hall
Halcyon String Quartet : Tipping Points
Multi-Media Experience on Climate Change
Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025
Pre-concert talk 6 p.m. | Concert 7 p.m
MUSIC IN MINSKY CONCERT
Co-presented with the UMaine Climate Change Institute, Halcyon
shares Tipping Points—a 60-minute multimedia experience
blending music, live action, and animation. The performance
explores how media, economics, and sustainability messaging
influence our daily lives, featuring works by Christine Delphine
Hedden, Kenji Bunch, J.S. Bach, and the Danish String Quartet.
Join us for a reception and pre-concert talk by Professor Emeritus George Jacobson.
