Climate Change Institute

Connecting K–12 students in Maine and around the world with researchers in the field is the goal of a new program offered by the University of Maine Cooperative Extension with support from UMaine’s Climate Change Institute (CCI) and the Maine 4-H Foundation. Follow a Researcher aims to give students a glimpse into a scientist’s world […]

Bangor Daily News – Feb. 20, 2015 Courtesy of the Penobscot Marine MuseumDuring the cold winter of 1904-1905, Mainers enjoyed taking horse-drawn sleighs across the frozen expanse of Belfast Harbor to check out the Monument, a nautical marker that is at least a half mile from land. By Abigail Curtis, BDN Staff Feb. 19, 2015, […]

  Robert Thomas: an essential pioneer in establishing modern understanding of how ice shelves influence ice-sheet stability, and trailblazer in evolving the objective study of ice sheets from the dog-sled equipped ground-survey era to the modern era of strategic remote sensing. Bob passed after suffering a stroke in early January. (further information to follow).

Paul Mayewski, director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, co-wrote an opinion piece on climate change for the Bangor Daily News with Darryl W. Lyon, a lieutenant colonel in the Maine National Guard. The article is titled “Maine is a leader in confronting climate change in the High North.”

University of Maine Climate Change Institute scientists Paul Mayewski, Sean Birkel and Ivan Fernandez shared their research about climate change with Keith Shortall on MPBN’s Maine Calling, an interactive radio program.

Video Link:   Video Transcript Paul Mayewski: Climate change has always happened. There are natural climate changes and then today, we of course have the dramatically added influence of human activity. Weather in general make, those are the building blocks of climate, so you take the weather over a full year, several years and that […]

Maximum Impact The Federal Emergency Management Agency is monitoring infrastructure repair efforts around Atlantic City, New Jersey, where Superstorm Sandy killed 73 and caused billions of dollars in damage when it barreled ashore a little more than two years ago. In January, Brian Olsen, assistant professor of biology and ecology, will start gauging the restoration […]

Link to World Ocean Observatory – Radio Episode Radio Transcript — Externality Episode I’m Peter Neill, Director of the World Ocean Observatory. Externality refers to what lies outside a given perimeter; in modern parlance, it often refers to a disconnected or unconsidered consequence, sometimes positive, sometimes not, of a particular action. For example, a factory […]

http://www.victoria.ac.nz/news/2014/thin-ice-heading-for-united-states-television-screens Thin Ice heading for United States television screens The success of a Victoria University of Wellington fundraising campaign means the screening of Thin Ice—the Inside Story of Climate Science on United States television next year could coincide with a peak in international interest in dealing with the issue of global warming. 2014-November-27 As a […]

An international group dedicated to advancing science for the benefit of all people is honoring Daniel H. Sandweiss, an archaeologist at the University of Maine. The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) elected Sandweiss a Fellow for his distinguished contributions to archaeology. Alan Leshner, CEO and executive publisher of Science, says Sandweiss’ notable […]