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UMaine researchers present at AAAS annual meeting (Hall et al.)

Three University of Maine faculty — Heather Leslie, Sydne Record and Brenda Hall — spoke at the annual meeting for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) on Feb. 14. AAAS is the world’s largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research.  Leslie, professor of marine science who was named […]

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As Greenland Decides” by Norchi and Lynch.

https://www.jonaa.org/content/as-greenland-decides OPINON Authors: Charles H. Norchi, Amanda H. LynchPhotograph: Angu Motzfeldt February 2025 This March Greenland will hold a national election. Likely on the minds of the voters is the Greenland saying, “nothing about us, without us.” Since US President Donald Trump stated his ambition to acquire Greenland by sale or by force, the election […]

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Ice coring on South Georgia island, Southern Ocean

Potocki, M., Mayewski, P.A., Casassa, G., Handley, M., Introne, D., Hooper, J., Novak, S. and Maasch, K., 2024, Surface Melting and Chemical Analysis of a firn core from South Georgia: Implications for Future Drilling Sites and Paleoenvironmental Records, Journal of Glaciology, https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2024.110

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CLIMATE ON TAP: PERTURBED!! EL NIÑO PAST AND PRESENT

FEBRUARY 19 – 5:30, NOCTURNEM DRAFT HAUS, 56 MAIN STREET, BANGOR Featuring: Dr. Dan Sandweiss, Professor, Dept. of Anthropology & Climate Change Institute & Dr. Kirk Maasch, Professor, School of Earth & Climate Sciences and Climate Change Institute.

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PNAS paper featured on CBC radio broadcasts – J. Saros

The CBC has released a radio show including our PNAS paperQuirks & Quarks airs at 12pm on Saturdays in each timezone across Canada (12:30pm in Newfoundland) on CBC Radio One. You can also catch it live on CBC Radio 1 online on Saturday at 12pm across Canada or on Sirius XM satellite radio (Channel 169). Or you can find it in any podcast […]

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2025 Human Dimensions of Climate Change Film Series

———- Forwarded message ———From: Cindy Isenhour<cynthia.isenhour@maine.edu>Date: Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 1:37 PMSubject: 2025 Human Dimensions of Climate Change Film Series_please spread the wordTo: Dear colleagues,  Sephora McIntyre and I are excited to share the lineup for the University of Maine’s 12th Annual Human Dimensions of Climate Change Film Series.   Would you please help us to get the word out by […]

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Press Herald interviews Birkel on Maine’s risk for wildfires

The Portland Press Herald interviewed Sean Birkel, Maine state climatologist and assistant professor at the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, on the likelihood of a large fire developing in Maine. Birkel said the Northeast region of the country is more humid than the western part, but drought conditions in recent years have increased the […]

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Nature Communications 2025 “Microbial life in one of the most extreme ecosystems on Earth: the Antarctic Plateau” by V. Parry et.al. includes CCI director P.A. Mayewski and Postdoc M. Potocki. 

Microbial biogeography along a 2578 km transect on the East Antarctic Plateau Victor Parro, María Ángeles Lezcano, Mercedes Moreno-Paz, Alfonso F. Davila, Armando Azua-Bustos, Miriam García-Villadangos, Jacek Wierzchos, Miguel Ángel Fernández-Martínez, Ramón Larramendi, Hilo Moreno, Ignacio Oficialdegui, Manuel Olivera, Miguel Redondo-Nieto, Pedro Mustieles-del-Ser, Mariusz Potocki, Paul Andrew Mayewski, Sergi González-Herrero, Antonio Quesada  Nature Communications volume 16, Article number: 775 […]

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