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Pilot survey and selection of geoarchaeological records and metal-ore processing sites in the high elevation Svaneti region of the Caucasus for potential paleoclimate and macro-economic reconstructions from Ice Cores

Expedition Location: Svaneti, Georgia Expedition Dates: July 2023 Field Team Members: Lizi Gadrani 1,2*, Mikheil Elashvili3, Anca Dan4 1Climate Change Institute, University of Maine 2School of Earth and Climate Sciences, University of Maine 3Cultural Heritage and Environmental Research Center, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia 4CNRS, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France Funding Support: The Robert and […]

Euronews cites Climate Reanalyzer data on above average September temperatures

In a story about how summer 2023 was the hottest on record, Euronews cited data from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer which shows that so far, daily September temperatures are also above average.

Constraining the Spatial Distribution of Snowpack Properties of the Kahiltna Glacier and Begguya Plateau in Denali National Park, Alaska, USA

Expedition Location: Denali National Park, Alaska Expedition Dates: June 8, 2023 – July 14, 2023 Field Team Members: Keegan Bellamy (MS Student, UMaine), Emma Erwin (PhD student, UMaine), Claire Bicknell (BS Student, Alaska Pacific University) Funding Support: The Robert and Judith Sturgis Family Foundation Research Background: This project expands previous geophysical studies conducted in […]

AP cites UMaine Climate Reanalyzer data in reporting about hottest recorded summer

The Associated Press cited data from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer in reporting about how 2023 was the hottest summer on record. The Portland Press Herald, Spectrum News NY 1 (New York), Union-Bulletin (Walla Walla, Washington), Traverse City Record-Eagle (Traverse City, Michigan), The Register Citizen (Torrington, Connecticut), Dayton Daily News (Dayton, […]

Maine Public features Gill, Zaro in ‘Maine Calling’ show about the Anthropocene

Maine Public featured Jacquelyn Gill, associate professor of paleoecology and plant ecology with the University of Maine School of Biology and Ecology and Climate Change Institute, and Gregory Zaro, associate professor at the UMaine Department of Anthropology and Climate Change Institute, as panelists on the show ‘Maine Calling’ for a segment about the Anthropocene, the […]

Gill speaks to Fast Company about heat pumps in Maine

Jacquelyn Gill, associate professor of paleoecology and plant ecology with the University of Maine School of Biology and Ecology and Climate Change Institute, spoke to Fast Company about how Maine got more than 100,000 residents to install heat pumps. Gill told Fast Company that this year’s muggy, hot summer convinced her to install a heat […]

School of Earth and Climate Sciences awarded $1.5 million from DOD to improve snowpack predictions

The Department of Defense (DOD) has awarded $1,504,063 to a University of Maine project quantifying snowpack properties in the Arctic led by School of Earth and Climate Sciences faculty members Chris Gerbi and Seth Campbell, who also is affiliated with the Climate Change Institute. Characterizing and predicting the characteristics of snow-covered regions is a critical […]

Reconstructing the Paleotempestology Record from the Tibes Indigenous Ceremonial Center at Ponce, Puerto Rico

Expedition Location: Ponce, Puerto Rico Expedition Dates: June 12 – 18, 2023 Field Team Members: Karina M. Cortijo-Robles (Researcher), Elizabeth Leclerc (Research Assistant), and Mariana Z. Aguirre Rodriguez (Volunteer) Funding Support: The Robert and Judith Sturgis Family Foundation Background & Significance: Tibes, on the south side of Puerto Rico, is one of the best-preserved […]

Forbes notes UMaine Climate Reanalyzer data in article about record-breaking summer heat

In reporting about a deadly summer heat wave that continued to break temperature records this week throughout the South, Southwest and Midwest, Forbes cited data from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer showing that July 4 was the planet’s hottest day in nearly 125,000 years, at 62.92 degrees.

The Conversation cites UMaine Climate Reanalyzer data in reporting about Hurricane Idalia

In an article about Hurricane Idalia intensifying in warm Gulf of Mexico waters, The Conversation cited data from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer about global ocean temperatures.

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