CCI Director provides perspective on abrupt climate change
Paul Mayewski, Director of the Climate Change Institute, was interviewed recently for SciencePoles, the website of the International Polar Year.
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CCI faculty research receives international media mentions
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 […]
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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 […]
Read moreThe Role of Dissolved Organic Material in Regulating Primary Production in Prairie Saline Lakes
Northern Great Plains – North Dakota The Role of Dissolved Organic Material in Regulating Primary Production in Prairie Saline Lakes Jasmine Saros, Courtney Wigdahl, Carmen Daggett August 2006, May 2009 Lake ecosystems are often defined in terms of a trophic paradigm, in which lake productivity is considered a direct function of nutrient loading. This paradigm […]
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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
Read more17th Annual Harold W. Borns, Jr. Symposium
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 […]
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2007 – 2008 US ITASE Field Report Paul Andrew Mayewski, Gordon Hamilton (University of Maine) Brian Welch (St. Olaf College) Introduction: US ITASE is foremost a scientific endeavor that seeks to collect the highest quality scientific data under the safest and most efficient conditions possible. It has been operating successfully as a traverse platform since […]
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Climate Change Institute Director Paul Mayewski offers his perspectives on global climate change, the science that’s getting closer to predicting its future and what our changing climate means to us. To access the complete UMaine Today Magazine article, please visit the following website: UMaine Today website
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As part of an unprecedented, multiyear effort, researchers have retrieved the first section of an ice column in Antarctica that could provide the most detailed record yet of greenhouse gases in Earth’s atmosphere during the last 100,000 years. To access the complete UMaine Today Magazine article, please visit the following website: UMaine Today website
Read moreArchaeological Investigations of the Quebrada Manga, Peru
Archaeological Exploration of the Cotahuasi Highlands, Southern Peru Kurt Rademaker (CCI), David Reid (Anthropology Dept.) Project setup. Kurt writes: Before Dave and I can even think about the canyon survey itself, we have to deal with some serious logistical issues. We are setting out to spend three weeks backpacking and documenting archaeological sites within a […]
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