Graduate student Kurt Rademaker struck anthropological gold last summer. High in the Peruvian Andes, he discovered prehistoric quarries of obsidian, the volcanic glass used in toolmaking. His discovery could be the key to understanding how humans settled South America. To access the complete UMaine Today Magazine article, please visit the following website: UMaine Today […]
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Glacial history and climate reconstruction, Patagonia George Denton and Marcus Vandergoes, UMaine Jorge Strelin, Ushuia, Argentina March 16 to April 20, 2005 The goals of this project are to produce detailed records of glacier recession during the last deglaciation and Holocene. Mapping and sampling of glacial deposits around Lago Argentina and the Upsala Glacier will […]
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Abrupt Climate Change, Patagonia Paul Mayewski, Andrei Kurbatov, Erich Osterberg, Daniel Dixon, UMaine Charles Porter, Patagonia Research Foundation and UMaine Mike Ellis and Scott Mason, Stonehaven Productions, Canada February 20 to March 22, 2005 Research conducted by Climate Change Institute members in Antarctica over the past few years has resulted in new theories concerning the […]
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A team led by University of Maine scientists has reported finding a potential link between changes in solar activity and the Earth’s climate. In a paper for the Annals of Glaciology, Paul Mayewski, director of UMaine’s Climate Change Institute, and 11 colleagues from China, Australia and Maine describe evidence from ice cores pointing to an […]
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Glacial history and climate reconstruction, South Island, New Zealand George Denton, Marcus Vandergoes, Ann Dieffenbacher-Krall January 15 to Feb. 28, 2005 The main objectives of our trip to New Zealand this summer was (1) to develop a standard taxonomy of New Zealand chironomid types, (2) complete outstanding modern sample collection for our chironomid research, (3) […]
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West Antarctic Ice Sheet Stability: Glacial Record from the Ohio Range of the Horlick Mountains in the Bottleneck Hal Borns, Aaron Putnam, UMaine Robert Ackert, Sujoy Mukhopadhyay, Harvard December 15, 2004 to February 15, 2005 The goal of this cooperative project is to document the former high stands and assess the stability of the West […]
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Late Quaternary History of Reedy Glacier, Antarctica Claire Todd, John Stone, Howard Conway, and Maurice Conway (UWashington) December 15, 2004 – February 1, 2005 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 the grounding line has not […]
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Ice Cores from the upper Tasman Glacier, New Zealand Paul Mayewski, Andrei Kurbatov, Sharon Sneed, and Susan Kaspari, UMaine Use Morgenstern, Julian Thomson, Institute of Geology and Nuclear Sciences, Wellington, New Zealand Shichang Kang and Zinsheng Gao, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences Lisa Taylor, Dino Congonidis and Mike Ellis, Stonehaven Productions, […]
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Locked in ice cores are clues to how climate evolved over thousands of years. But just what do scientists look for in the frozen timeline? To access the complete UMaine Today Magazine article, please visit the following website: UMaine Today website
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Late-Glacial Chronology of Moraines in East Greenland Thomas Lowell (University of Cincinnatti) Meredith Kelly (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory) Brenda Hall (University of Maine) August 14, 2004 to August 31, 2004 After the successful mission of the Turmoilto Scoresby Sund, eastern Greenland, in 2003 it was decided that shock troops were needed on the ground to verify […]
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