Climate Change Institute

CLIMATE ON TAP - JOURNEY INTO CLIMATE - P. MAYEWSKI
2024-03-27 17:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | 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
Passcode: [REDACTED]

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:
https://maine.zoom.us/j/85916243724?pwd=[REDACTED]
Password: [REDACTED]
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

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
