Climate Change Institute

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 […]

Tobias Koffman has been awarded the prestigious 3-year National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) provides fellowships to individuals selected early in their graduate careers based on their demonstrated potential for significant achievements in science and engineering.  Three years of support is provided by the program for graduate study […]

Congratulations to Hal Borns  Dr. Harold Borns, Jr., PhD has been selected by the Maine Health Care Association for its “Remember Me” photography exhibition and Lifetime Achievement Award, placing a human face on long term care.  Hal will be honored at the State House in Augusta on April 15th, 2011.   Remember ME: One of […]

Curt Stager, a paleoclimatologist and adjunct research faculty member of UMaine’s Climate Change Institute, was interviewed for a Toronto Star story about his new book, “Deep Future: The Next 100,000 Years of Life on Earth.” The book, which was released earlier this month, focuses on the current era of the earth’s history, when humans have […]

A new study co-authored by Gordon Hamilton and former CCI doctoral student and postdoc Leigh Stearns provides important insights into the potential role of the ocean in triggering widespread dynamic changes of Greenland’s outlet glaciers. The paper appears in Nature Geoscience.

UMaine’s Paul Mayewski is set to give a talk on March 31, about the role humans play in climate change, according to a Bangor Daily News story. Mayewski, the director of the Climate Change Institute at UMaine, will speak in Hutchins Hall at the Collins Center for the Arts. The talk, which starts at 7 […]

February 24, 2011 NSF Press Release 11-039 How severe can climate change become in a warming world? Worse than anything we’ve seen in written history, according to results of a study appearing this week in the journal Science. An international team of scientists led by Curt Stager of Paul Smith’s College, New York, has compiled […]

A University of Maine oceanographer is representing the university in a new consortium exploring the potential impact of iron fertilization of the oceans in order to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Fei Chai, a professor in UMaine’s School of Marine Sciences and cooperative professor in UMaine’s Climate Change Institute, has joined […]

Nature Magazine included comments from UMaine archaeologist Daniel Sandweiss in an article detailing the remains of ancient hunts on islands off the coast of California more than 10,000 years ago. Some researchers believe these finds are an indication the first Americans 05 have migrated south along the coast rather than through inland Canada, but an […]

Upstate New York-based North Country Public Radio recently noted findings published by Curt Stager, an adjunct researcher at UMaine’s Climate Change Institute and a scientist at Paul Smiths College in New York, that an ancient drought transformed Asia and Africa thousands of years ago. Some comments UMaine glaciologist Gordon Hamilton made to CNN about the […]