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A new ice core was drilled ~73 m to bedrock at the Colle Gnifetti (CG) glacier saddle of the Monte Rosa Massif (4450 m.a.s.l.) on the Swiss-Italian border led by researchers from the Institut für Umweltphysik, University of Heidelberg (Germany) and the Physics Institute, University of Bern (Switzerland). Evaluation of this unique archive will also […]

Editor’s note: A narrated slideshow about the collaborative research by UMaine, Dartmouth and the University of New Hampshire is online. University of Maine climate change scientist Karl Kreutz seeks to glean insight into future sea level rise on the planet. To do that, this past spring he was part of a research team that hiked […]

Associated Press By Published: July 30, 2013   PORTLAND, Maine — For biologists who have been studying birds in East Coast tidal marshes, Superstorm Sandy couldn’t have come at a better time. Just two months before Sandy pummeled New Jersey and New York last 10 ober, a research team completed the field work of a study […]

The effects of Hurricane Sandy’s devastation on plant and bird communities in coastal marshes from Maine to Virginia are the focus of a 10-state study by researchers from the University of Maine, University of Connecticut, University of Delaware and Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. Information gathered from more than 1,700 sites before and […]

A state-of-the-art sensor buoy system has been deployed in Jordan Pond at Acadia National Park to begin a high-tech water quality monitoring program in light of recent concerns about decreasing clarity in what is considered one of the clearest lakes in Maine. The monitoring program is made possible by a partnership led by Friends of […]

Abstract In regions formerly covered by continental ice, till sheets 05 contain distinctive clastic particles derived from local bedrock sources such as ore bodies. Such particles, especially in thicker tills, 05 be distributed in three-dimensional dispersal trains or plumes. Developments in our understanding of glacial erosion, entrainment, and deposition over the past two or three […]

University of Maine’s Jasmine Saros and a team of graduate students and post-doctorate students are in Greenland this summer investigating diatom assemblages for clues on how climate change 05 impact Arctic lakes.  Diatoms, some of the smallest organisms in the Arctic, 05 be the biggest indicators of climate-related changes in the region’s lake ecosystems. These […]

Abstract Explosive volcanism resulting in stratospheric injection of sulfate aerosol is a major driver of regional to global climatic variability on interannual and longer timescales. However, much of our knowledge of the climatic impact of volcanism derives from the limited number of eruptions that have occurred in the modern period during which meteorological instrumental records […]

Two entries from University of Maine graduate students have been submitted into the National Science Foundation’s Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program’s 2013 Video and Poster Competition. Maureen Correll and Bjorn Grigholm, graduate students in the Adaptation to Abrupt Climate Change IGERT program at UMaine, submitted a video and poster titled “Abrupt Climate […]

Announcing the 6th Annual Climate Change Science Day at the University of Maine on May 2, 2013. This open house will include tours and demonstrations aimed at high school students and will feature visits to the following laboratories: * Ice Core Glaciochemistry Laboratories — Visit the labs that measure the chemistry of ice cores used […]