Climate Change Institute

Researchers at the University of Maine wanted to know how the Antarctic ice sheet reacts to climate change. To find out, they dove into the past to learn how the ice sheet behaved during the last glaciation, when the glacier achieved its greatest extent and what factors contributed to its ultimate retreat. In order to […]

Journal Tribune cited a Maine Policy Review report written by Joseph Kelley, a professor of marine geology in the University of Maine School of Earth and Climate Sciences and Climate Change Institute, in an article about Wells Beach erosion. The article focused on a public hearing held by the Board of Selectmen to discuss purchasing […]

On June 26, as various school systems came to the end of their academic calendars, 17 Maine high school and middle school teachers and 12 science researchers gathered around small tables at the University of Maine, all with the same topic in mind. Climate change. The group participated in a climate science teacher workshop led […]

Joseph Kelley, a professor of marine geology in the University of Maine School of Earth and Climate Sciences and Climate Change Institute, was quoted in an Associated Press article about how Louisiana’s next governor will play a crucial role in the state’s coastal crisis. The governor is expected to either aggressively work to save the […]

University of Maine geologist Gordon Bromley spoke with WABI (Channel 5) about his upcoming research expedition to Antarctica. Bromley will study how Earth’s largest ice sheet — the East Antarctic Ice Sheet — has responded during past times of global warming to learn about how it 05 respond in the future to human-caused climate change. […]

Learn how modern humans acquired a unique style of thinking and came to dominate the planet while other human species went extinct. Ian Tattersall will deliver a free, public lecture, “We Are What We Think: The Origins of Modern Human Cognition,” at 7 p.m. 10 . 5, in Hutchins Hall at the Collins Center for […]

University of Maine researcher Paul Mayewski and the Climate Change Institute are lauded in the recent World Ocean Radio program “Climate Future Planning.” Host Peter Neill, director of the World Ocean Observatory, hails the work of Mayewski and CCI for creating a “software matrix that relates changes in the environment to plausible, scalable scenarios and […]

Paul Mayewski, director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, was quoted in the Arctic Newswire article, “Arctic experts warn of urgent need for collaboration.” Several speakers at a forum on Arctic issues held in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday focused on the the difficulties of communication and collaboration facing the government and […]

University of Maine geologist Gordon Bromley will study how Earth’s largest ice sheet has responded during past times of global warming to learn about how it 05 respond in the future to human-caused climate change. The answers have implications: If the East Antarctic Ice Sheet melts, sea level around the planet could rise about 180 […]

September 10, 2015 The central ornithology publication office reported on University of Maine researchers studying bird trade-offs during migratory flights. They need to fuel up with food as efficiently as possible, but they need to avoid predators while they do it, says the release. Graduate student Jennifer McCabe and Professor Brian Olsen spent two years […]