Climate Change Institute

  Woolly mammoths that 12,000 years ago roamed the treeless tundra that is now Maine are gone, but unique landscape features formed during the retreat of a continental glacial ice sheet in that epoch remain. Down East, Maine is an outdoor historical museum. And thanks to a collaboration between Hal Borns and Josh Plourde, Ice […]

Paul Mayewski has been named one of the 50 bold visionaries defining the state in the July issue of Maine magazine. The director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine was included in the third annual list for his four decades of exploration aimed at understanding “why and how the climate is […]

The Ellsworth American reported Paul Mayewski, director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, is scheduled to speak at an educational event focused on the Arctic and climate change in Castine. The Maine Chapter of the Fulbright Association will host a morning of presentations on the Arctic, climate change and the Fulbright […]

Aaron Putnam, a research associate with the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, is conducting glacial geology research in Mongolia with doctoral student Peter Strand. Fieldwork will include mapping and collecting samples of moraines and glacial geomorphologic features around Khoton Nuur. Khoton Lake is at the foot of the Altai Mountains near the border of […]

Jacquelyn Gill, assistant professor of paleoecology and plant ecology at the University of Maine, will appear in a new five-part PBS program on human evolution. Gill will be featured in the premiere episode “Americas,” airing 9 p.m. June 24. “First Peoples” is a global detective story that traces the arrival of the first Homo sapiens […]

  When University of Maine climate change researchers Charles Rodda and Kit Hamley took a lunch break from drilling ice cores on a glacier in Peru this spring, they hiked to camp and sat down to eat. That’s when they got a volley of questions via text: “How will you keep all of your ice […]

When Abigail “Abi” Bradford was 2, her parents strapped skis on her feet, tucked her between their lower legs and glided down the slope. When she was a bit older and skiing solo, she belted out the “Sesame Street” theme song as she blazed full speed ahead along the main trail at Titcomb Mountain in […]

A University of Maine researcher, a doctoral student and an undergraduate are at Wind Cave National Park in Hot Springs, South Dakota excavating cave fossils that date back 11,000 years to the end of the most recent ice age. Scientists say preliminary samples from the material — which includes at least 22 species — will […]

Live Science reported on climate change research conducted by a team of scientists including Paul Mayewski, Andrei Kurbatov, Nicole Spaulding and Douglas Introne from the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine. The article, “Million-year-old bubbles reveal Antarctica’s oldest climate snapshot,” focused on research led by John Higgins, a geochemist at Princeton University. Higgins’ […]

A research team that includes University of Maine scientists announced a 60,000-year-old ice core from West Antarctica reveals that ocean currents redistributed past abrupt temperature changes in the Arctic to the Antarctic, a distance of about 11,000 miles. In addition to demonstrating a consistent link between previous sudden, rapid temperature changes in the Arctic and […]