Expedition Location: Harare, Zimbabwe Expedition Dates: Summer 2023 Field Team Members: Victoria Markiewicz, Dr. Nicholas Micinski Funding Support: The Robert and Judith Sturgis Family Foundation Background and Significance: The eastern region of Zimbabwe is experiencing an increase of intense tropical cyclones that travel through Mozambique from the Indian Ocean. These cyclones cause flooding that destroys livelihoods […]
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Expedition Location: Nome, Alaska Expedition Dates: July 8, 2023 – July 16, 2023 Field Team Members: Wouter Hantson, Daryl Yang Funding Support: The Robert and Judith Sturgis Family Foundation and NGEE Arctic Background and Significance: The expansion of tall shrubs into northern high-latitude ecosystems is driving widespread changes in tundra ecosystems that may fundamentally modify […]
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In an article about the rise in extreme weather due to climate change, The Guardian cited data from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer showing an increase in average global temperature and sea surface temperatures.
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USA Today featured Paul Mayewski, professor and director of the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, and Sean Birkel, Maine state climatologist and assistant professor with a joint appointment in University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the UMaine Climate Change Institute, about data from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer showing that […]
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Expedition Location: Denali National Park, Alaska Expedition Dates: June 8, 2023 – July 14, 2023 Field Team Members: Emma Erwin (Phd Student, UMaine), Keegan Bellamy (MS student, UMaine), Claire Bicknell (BS student, Alaska Pacific University) Funding Support: Dan & Betty Churchill Exploration Fund Research Background: Twin surface-to-bedrock ice cores recovered from Begguya (Mt. Hunter) in 2013 have […]
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With smoke from wildfires across North America now blowing into Maine, a University of Maine researcher has tips on how to protect home air quality from the incoming haze. Smoke particles are light enough to linger in the air for hours or days, which is how they can travel to Maine even if they ignite […]
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Expedition Field Team Member: Mikaila A. Mannello, Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, Orono, ME Expedition Funding: Dan and Betty Churchill Exploration Fund, the Mount Logan Ice Core Project, University of Alberta Canadian Ice Core Lab, and the Maine Space Grant Consortium. Field Expedition Location: Quintino Sella Glacier, Yukon Territory, Canada Expedition Dates: May 6-18, […]
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The Associated Press cited data from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer in a report about record global temperatures in June. The Los Angeles Times, the Connecticut Insider, The National Desk, Southern Minnesota News, The Manchester Times, Yeshiva World, AM NY, WTGS (Fox 28 in Savannah, Georgia) and other outlets shared the […]
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The Associated Press and PBS NewsHour cited data from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer in a report about record high temperatures in California’s Death Valley. The Seattle Times, Spectrum News NY 1, The Independent Tribune (Concord, North Carolina), The Daily Courier (Prescott, Arizona) and other outlets shared the AP report.
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PNAS interviewed Jacquelyn Gill, associate professor of paleoecology & plant ecology with the University of Maine School of Biology and Ecology and Climate Change Institute, about defining the Anthropocene, a proposed geological epoch dating from the commencement of significant human impact on Earth’s geology and ecosystems. “It’s challenging to agree on a start date for […]
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