Climate Change Institute

Photo Credit: Kim Marteneau, Columbia University Many thousands of years ago, as the world slowly began to thaw at the end of the last ice age, the landscapes of southern Peru were quite different than the ones University of Maine’s Gordon Bromley finds himself wandering about these days. Large domes of ice, blanketing the high […]

The Climate Change Institute and School of Earth and Climate Sciences at the University of Maine hosted the 41st Climate Diagnostics Workshop, 10 . 3–6. The workshop, sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), was held at the Wells Conference Center. Over 120 U.S. and international climate scientists participated in the workshop, discussing […]

The Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer was included in an online Discover Magazine blog about smoke from Russian wildfires blowing 3,000 miles east out over the Pacific Ocean. A Climate Reanalyzer graph included with the blog displays Siberia’s long-term upward trend in average temperatures near the surface.

The Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine was mentioned in an article in the Alaska Dispatch News about economic opportunities and Maine’s stake in Arctic policy in the face of ice-free shipping lanes in the Arctic. Dana Eidsness, director of the Maine North Atlantic Development Office, said the CCI has been undertaking glacial […]

  CCI director speaks about abrupt Arctic climate change at Maine-Arctic Forum  Paul Mayewski, director of the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute (CCI), participated in the opening panel discussion of the Maine-Arctic Forum held in Portland on 10 . 3. The Maine-Arctic Forum coincided with the intergovernmental Senior Arctic Officials Meeting of the Arctic […]

WABI (Channel 5) spoke with Kimberley Rain Miner, an Earth and climate sciences Ph.D. student at the University of Maine, about her work developing policy to build climate resilience. For her doctorate, Miner is developing a framework to assess the threat of pesticides — including DDT and other persistent organic pollutants — that for years […]

KAIRN (Kangerlussuaq International Research Network) 2nd Annual Meeting; Acadia National Park, Maine, 4–7 05 2016 The Arctic is experiencing some of the most intense effects of climate change, with southwest Greenland seeing the most rapid warming (about 3°C during the past 7 years). Although loss of ice from the island is an important area of […]

Thirty Maine middle school and high school teachers were at the Schoodic Institute 09 . 23–25 to learn more about the state’s ice age trail, and how its history and evidence across the landscape could make Earth science lessons come alive. The teachers were joined by researchers from the Maine Center for Research in STEM […]

Paul Mayewski, director of the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, was featured in the Portland Press Herald article, “Meet Maine’s Arctic experts.” Mayewski is one of several presenters scheduled to speak at the Maine-Arctic Forum at the University of Southern Maine in Portland. The explorer and scientist has led more than 50 expeditions to […]

This fall, the University of Maine Cooperative Extension 4-H will again connect youth with a graduate student conducting fieldwork in a remote location as part of its Follow a Researcher™ program. The program’s third expedition will take place in Antarctica with Lynn Kaluzienski, a Ph.D. student in UMaine’s Department of Earth and Climate Sciences and […]