Climate Change Institute

Collecting Live Blue Mussels, Greenland: Aquaculture Based Calibration in Greenland Karl Kreutz, Hal Borns, Doug ‘Cap’ Introne, Alan Wanamaker, Zach von Hassein, University of Maine Svend Funder, Copenhagen July 10, 2004 to July 18, 2004      We are traveling to western Greenland (Kangerlussuaq and Sisimuit) to collect live blue mussels (Mytilus edulis) and other bivalves, […]

Land and Sea Level Changes in Ireland Joseph Kelly and Daniel Belknap, University of Maine Sam Kelley, Undergraduate Student Andrew Cooper, University of Ulster June 16, 2004 to June 27, 2004         We will be studying land/sea level change in Ireland during the late Quaternary. We will collect cores offshore of Giants Causeway in […]

Archaeological Excavation – Alca, Peru Dan Sandweiss and Kurt Rademaker, CCI James Hagerman, Ben Morris and Louis Fortin, University of Maine Michael Malpass (Ithaca College) Adan Umire, Oswaldo Chozo May 10, 2004 to June 19, 2004 Monday May 10 – Most of the team left Bangor early this morning and arrived here in Lima, the […]

Glacial History and climate reconstruction from the South Island, New Zealand George Denton, Marcus Vandergoes January 1, 2004 to February 28, 2004            The goals of this project are to produce detailed reconstructions of glacier history and climate change during the last 30,000 years (Late Quaternary). Mapping of glacial deposits to […]

Dynamics of the Blue Ice Regions in Antarctica Andrei Kurbatov, Leigh Stearns, Vandy Blue Spikes John Moore, University of Lapland January 10, 2004 to February 20, 2004 An earlier award to Drs. G. Zielinski (UMaine) and N. Dunbar (New Mexico Tech) resulted in the collection of ‘horizontal ice core’ at the Mount Moulton blue ice […]

Late Quaternary History of Reedy Glacier, Antarctica Brenda Hall, Gordon Bromley (UMaine) Claire Todd, John Stone, Howard Conway, and Maurice Conway (UWashington) November 18, 2003 to January 1, 2004 We will reconstruct the level of Reedy Glacier, in the far southern Transantarctic Mountains, from the LGM (Last Glacial Maximum) through to the present day. Because […]

Ice Cores from the Dry Valleys of Antarctica Karl Kreutz, Bruce Williamson, Erich Osterberg October 18, 2003 to December 10, 2003 The goals of this project are to collect and develop high-resolution ice core records from the Dry Valleys region of Antarctica, and provide interpretations of interannual to decadal-scale climate variability during the last 2000 […]

Ice Cores from South Island, New Zealand Paul Meyewski and Andrei Kurbatov, UMaine Uwe Morgenstern, Institute of Geology and Nuclear Sciences, Wellington, New Zealand October 27, 2003 to November 17, 2003 Paul and Andrei are collecting ice cores from the Tasman Glacier, South Island New Zealand. These cores will help extend our knowledge of the […]