Climate Change Institute

Every summer for the past decade, paleoecologist Jasmine Saros has trekked across snowfields and horsebacked up bouldered mountain passes to reach remote, high-altitude lakes in the shadow of the Beartooth Mountains of the central Rockies. In the pristine wilderness of Montana and Wyoming, at altitudes above 9,400 feet, she arrives at the alpine lakes just […]

The first comprehensive review of the state of Antarctica’s climate and its relationship to the global climate system is published this week (Tuesday 1 December) by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). The review – Antarctic Climate Change and the Environment – presents the latest research from the icy continent, identifies areas for future […]

Most students describe their summer vacation in one word: cool. But Brittany Gilman of South Portland, Maine, and Stephanie Allard of Woonsocket, R.I., really mean it. In August, the University of Maine Earth sciences students collected samples from the Greenland ice sheet. The undergraduate researchers are working with Climate Change Institute Director Paul Mayewski and […]

UMaine Selected for Membership in Research Organization November 16th, 2009 Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Recognizing the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s international prominence in climate science, the prestigious University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) has selected UMaine for membership.  The organization’s member institutions unanimously approved UMaine’s application at its recent […]

Paul Mayewski, Director of the Climate Change Institute, was interviewed recently for SciencePoles, the website of the International Polar Year.

As reported by UMaine’s news service, UMaine climatologist and CCI faculty member Gordon Hamilton’s recent excursion to Greenland has received significant international media coverage. International networks including CNN, ABC (Australia), and many others have covered Gordon’s recent work. From an interview with ABC (Australia): Well I guess the major change is that the glaciers haven’t […]

Using ice samples from the Allan Hills blue ice region in East Antarctica, scientists at the University of Maine, in cooperation with Princeton University, hope to extend climate records back 2.5 million years. Andrei Kurbatov and Paul Mayewski of UMaine’s Climate Change Institute have been awarded more than $430,000 from the National Science Foundation for […]

UMaine anthropologist studies the roles humans and climate play in transforming Peru’s coast.   To access the complete UMaine Today Magazine article, please visit the following website: UMaine Today website

The 2009 Harold W. Borns Symposium will be held at Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall, University of Maine on 05 7-8, 2009. This symposium is a unique event that brings together the University of Maine community each year for a focused discussion of emerging research and topics related to global environmental change. Arrive at 7:30 a.m […]