Chronology of Late Holocene Moraines, Cordillera Darwin Chronology of Late Holocene Moraines, Cordillera Darwin: Implications for the Global Extent and Character of the Little Ice Age Brenda Hall, University of Maine and Charles Porter Patagonia Research Foundation, and UMaine March 1, 2006 to May 1, 2006 The Little Ice Age (LIA) is classically defined in […]
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Ice coring in the Patagonia Ice Fields. Abrupt Climate Change – Ice cores from Patagonia This project is supported by a grant from NOAA, Office of Global Programs Paul A. Mayewski, Andrei Kurbatov and Bjorn GrigholmUniversity of Maine Mark Wumkes, Glacier Data, Fairbanks Alaska Anja Wendt and Professor Gino Casassa, CECS, Valdivia, Chile. February 13, […]
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Abandoned southern elephant seal colonies as paleoclimate indicators in the Antarctic. Abandoned Southern Elephant Seal Colonies as Paleoclimate Indicators in the Antarctic Brenda Hall, Audrey Bamberg, Alice Doughty, University of Maine. Seth Newsome, University of California, Santa Cruz January 1 to February 15, 2006 This is a multidisciplinary project centered on abandoned southern elephant seal […]
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Ice Cores from the Dry Valleys of Antarctica 2005 Karl Kreutz, Bruce Williamson, Mike Waskiewicz, Terry Gacke and Toby Burdet October 20, 2004 – December 15, 2005 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 […]
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Mt. Geladandong Ice Cores Susan Kaspari and Bjorn Grigholm: UMaine Qianggong Zhang, Shichang Kang, Feng Chen, Qinghua Ye, and Zhiyuan Cong: Joint Key Laboratory of Cryosphere and Environment, P.R. China September 24 to November 15, 2005 Mt. Geladandong (33f 12′ N, 91f 09’E, 5800 m) is located in the Tanggula Mountains in the central region […]
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Geodynamicist Peter Koons is a world leader in understanding the interactions among tectonics, surface evolution and climate change. His models characterizing the evolution of the landscape could one day forecast how the Earth will respond to changes to come. To access the complete UMaine Today Magazine article, please visit the following website: UMaine Today […]
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Watching glaciers move can be tedious. Things don’t happen very fast. But University of Maine graduate student Leigh Stearns has found a way to make the science lesson fun and understandable. To access the complete UMaine Today Magazine article, please visit the following website: UMaine Today website
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Last winter, University of Maine master’s student Aaron Putnam was in the TransAntarctic Mountains on an expedition that included some extreme rock collecting. He and members of a research team rappelled into wind-carved ice moats, scaled sheer cliffs and chipped away at boulders, looking for clues about the stability of the two ice sheets that […]
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Reconnaissance Research in the Pamir Mountains, Tajikistan Susan Kaspari and Bjorn Gringholm, UMaine Dr. Vladimir Aizen, University of Idaho Arzhan Surazakov and Dan Joswiak, UIdaho July 16 – August 6, 2005 The high elevation snowfields of the Pamir and Tien Shan contain robust records documenting: moisture advection into central Asia from the Atlantic and Arctic; […]
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East Greenland Glaciology Gordon Hamilton and Leigh Stearns June 22 – July 26, 2005 Recent studies of the Greenland Ice Sheet show that the largest changes are taking place near the ice sheet margins. These changes include an increase in the spatial extent, seasonal duration, and intensity of surface melting, as well as rapid ice […]
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