Climate Change Institute

Maine Public’s show Maine Calling featured Paul Mayewski, professor and director of the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Climate Change Institute. Mayewski discussed his latest research and what he has learned over the years about glaciers, melting ice, and human-induced climate change.   https://www.mainepublic.org/show/maine-calling/2023-03-30/climate-scientist-paul-mayewski-on-his-work-and-the-climate-change-institutes-50-years-of-research    

The Harold W. Borns, Jr. Symposium is an annual event that features presentations and discussion by Climate Change Institute graduate students and faculty on emerging research and topics related to global environmental change. The 30th Annual Harold W. Borns, Jr. Symposium will be held on April 6-7, 2023 at the Harold W. Borns, Jr. Polar […]

In an article about climate “doomers,” the Washington Post spoke to Jaquelyn Gill, associate professor of paleoecology and plant ecology at the School of Biology and Ecology and Climate Change Institute. Gill told the Washington Post that in 2018 she started hearing different sorts of questions when she spoke at panels or did events online. […]

Sean Birkel, Maine state climatologist and assistant professor with a joint appointment in University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the UMaine Climate Change Institute, spoke to the Bangor Daily News about the impact of climate change on Maine’s mud season. Birkel said that thanks to climate change, exceptionally muddy conditions could start earlier and last […]

Claude Lorius, a leading glaciologist whose expeditions helped prove that humans were responsible for global warming, has died at the age of 91. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-65060965

In an article about President Joe Biden’s Ocean Climate Action Plan, USA Today cited information from the Climate Reanalyzer at the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine that shows sea surface temperatures in the global ocean reached a record high on March 16, averaging 69.8 degrees. MSN, the Spectrum (St. George, Utah), the […]

In an article about a new peak in global ocean temperatures, the Weather Network cited information from the University of Maine Climate Reanalyzer showing that the North Atlantic contributes to this global ocean temperature anomaly.

By Scott Dance March 21, 2023 at 12:53 p.m. EDT Earth’s ocean temperatures have risen so fast in recent weeks that one indicator shows surface waters have already reached their highest temperatures on record — a worrisome sign ahead of a predicted El Niño climate pattern that could further accelerate planetary warming. Around mid-March, ocean-temperature […]

Courtesy of Seth Campbell March 16, 2023 The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Seth Campbell, associate professor at the School of Earth and Climate Sciences and Climate Change Institute, with $1,001,174 over two prestigious grants that will fund research about Alaska and Canada glacier change and connect hundreds of low-income high school students and first-generation […]

The Washington Post used data from the University of Maine Climate Reanalyzer in an article about record temperatures in Greenland early this week, which were up to 50 degrees above normal in some places.