Climate Change Institute

The National Science Foundation website Science360 posted a UMaine-produced video featuring students Bess Koffman and Eliza Kane, who are shown melting ice cores stored at UMaine’s Climate Change Institute facility. The cores, which represent about 2,500 years of ice, were from western Antarctica. Koffman is a Ph.D. student in earth science and Kane is an […]

The Guardian newspaper’s Punctuated Equilibrium blog has a story and video about ice core research being performed at UMaine’s Climate Change Institute. UMaine Ph.D. student Bess Koffman and undergraduate Eliza Kane were interviewed for the UMaine-produced video, which was featured Wednesday on the Science360 website.

Krista Slemmons, a Ph.D. student in the Climate Change Institute and EES program, is one of eleven graduate students across the nation to receive a George Melendez Wright Climate Change Fellowship from the National Park Service. The goals of this student fellowship program are to support new and innovative research on climate change impacts to […]

A story on the Voice of America website includes comments from UMaine glaciologist Gordon Hamilton, who told VOA conditions in the Arctic have changed dramatically since a 2007 United Nations report on climate change. Estimates on sea level rise, Hamilton said, have been underestimated and could be at least twice as large as the upper […]

Comments from Gordon Hamilton of UMaine’s Climate Change Institute were included in a Time Magazine online report about findings that Arctic ice melt is accelerating. Hamilton said parts of Greenland have started to change in ways that are shocking to researchers, and that both the extent of melting and the length of the melting season […]

Comments from glaciologist Gordon Hamilton of UMaine’s Climate Change Institute were included in a Voice of America story about a report released Wednesday that says Arctic ice is melting at a much faster rate than previously thought. Hamilton said the previous estimate for sea level rise is a very large underestimate and it is probably […]

 Migration is a sensitive period in the life cycle of many bird species, accounting for as much as 80-90% of the mortality that occur over the year.   Despite this, birds show great apparent adaptability in their specific routes of movement, as the migratory behaviors of today’s boreal forest birds did not exist merely 10,000 […]

Millennial-scale cold reversals in the high latitudes of both hemispheres interrupted the last transition from full glacial to interglacial climate conditions. The presence of the Younger Dryas stadial (~12.9 to ~11.7 kyr ago) is established throughout much of the Northern Hemisphere, but the global timing, nature and extent of the event are not well established. […]

The contribution of the East Antarctic ice sheet to the 120 m of sea-level rise since the Last Glacial Maximum is unclear.  New terrestrial and marine data suggest the thinning of East Antarctic ice was responsible for only a metre of this rise.   Nature Geoscience, Vol. 4, March 2011

Dr. Paul Mayewski, the director of UMaine’s Climate Change Institute, was mentioned in a story on the website Physorg.com about the importance of collaborations between the fields of history and science, particularly climate science. Mayewski was mentioned as having been part of such a collaboration with a Harvard historian, which was considered the first of […]