Archaeological Exploration of the Cotahuasi Highlands, Southern Peru Kurt Rademaker (CCI), David Reid (Anthropology Dept.) This month’s field expedition is the latest installment in an ongoing interdisciplinary research program involving a team of senior scientists, graduate and undergraduate students from the University of Maine and collaborating academic institutions in the United States and Peru. The […]
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Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition (LGIT) in the Southern Hemisphere Determining patterns of abrupt climate change during the Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition (LGIT) in the Southern Hemisphere Marcus Vandergoes, Ann Dieffenbacher-Krall, Karen Marysdaughter, Aaron Putnam, Alice Doughty Field collaborator: Scott Travis Date: February 2007 Funding: National Science Foundation Relationship between deglacial climate change in the Northern and Southern […]
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Preliminary glaciological studies in the Peninsula Luis Felipe, Antarctica Andrei Kurbatov, UMaine, María Angélica Godoi and Marcelo Arevalo, Universidad de Magallanes (UMAG) and Fundación Centro de Estudios del Cuaternario (CEQUA), Ricardo Jaña Instituto Antárctico Chileno (INACH) and CEQUA January 26, 2007 to February 20, 2007 Updates: 10 February Climate models suggest that the Antarctic and […]
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Wisconsin The Response of Lakes to Disturbance and Climate Change: Calibrating Sedimentary Records to Test the Landscape Position Concept Jasmine Saros January 2007 Previous work at the North Temperate Lakes Long Term Ecological Research site (NTL-LTER) in Wisconsin describes the importance of the landscape position concept in understanding the limnological differences between neighboring lakes, including […]
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The 2006 -2007 US ITASE team was in Antarctica from November 3 through January 22th. November 4th-9th Photo Gallery November 9th-12th Photo Gallery November 13th-21st Photo Gallery November 23rd-26th Photo Gallery Taylor Dome Photo Gallery Mid December Photo Gallery Mid-season Photo Gallery
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Glacial geologist Brenda Hall is studying the remains of prehistoric elephant seals in an effort to better understand climate change. To access the complete UMaine Today Magazine article, please visit the following website: UMaine Today website
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A new study of glacial retreat shows that much of the world emerged from the last ice age simultaneously, according to two leading climate change scientists at Columbia University and the University of Maine. The exceptions were areas of the North Atlantic, which remained in a deep freeze 2,500 years longer. To access the […]
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Melt Pond Evolution and Glacier Acceleration: Fast Glacial Flow in East Greenland This Project is supported in part by a generous grant from the Dan and Betty Churchill Exploration Fund Gordon Hamilton and Leigh Stearns June 22, 2006 to August 29 2006 Mass from the interior of the Greenland ice sheet is transported to the […]
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Meteorological Controls on Snow Accumulation and Chemistry in the St. Elias Mountains This Project is supported by a generous grant from the Dan and Betty Churchill Exploration Fund Nate Vogan July 6th to 24th, 2006 The Arctic plays a prominent role in global climate change research because of both its sensitivity to changing climate and […]
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Archaeological and Glacial Geologic Investigations of the Nevado Coropuna, Peru Kurt Rademaker, Gordon Bromley, Claire Todd and Louis Fortin May 16, 2006 to July 15, 2006 This project seeks to better understand links between climate change, the glacial history of the tropical Andes, and the initial human settlement of South America. At the end of […]
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