Climate Change Institute

Photo by Melissa Mullen Saros named 2023 Fulbright Distinguished Arctic Scholar March 7, 2023 Jasmine Saros, professor of paleolimnology and lake ecology at the University of Maine School of Biology and Ecology and the Climate Change Institute, has been named the 2023 Fulbright Distinguished Arctic Scholar, one of most prestigious appointments in the Fulbright Scholar […]

Trapped in the glacier of Quelccaya Ice Cap – the largest ice cap in the Peruvian Andes Mountains – is a historical timeline that tells the story of the region’s climate. Its past, and possibly, its future. For UW–Madison Space Science and Engineering Center’s Elliot Moravec, an engineer who is accustomed to working in the […]

Rick Eason, associate professor emeritus of electrical engineering at the University of Maine, was interviewed by Inside Edition about balloon hobbyists and a weather balloon experiment he conducted along with hobbyist John Garesche with seventh graders in Ohio. The interview is available on Inside Edition’s YouTube channel.

Alessandro Mereghetti holds a piece of a mammoth tusk in the basing of the Indigirka River in the Republic of Sakha, Russia, in 2019Photo by Karen James March 1, 2023 Determining how the diversity of plant-eating megafauna has affected vegetation in the Arctic over the past 150,000 years will be the focus of a new […]

Seth Campbell, associate professor at the University of Maine School of Earth and Climate Sciences and Climate Change Institute, was quoted by Science and E&E News about unfair practices in the polar Physical Qualification, or PQ, process. The comprehensive medical screening is required for scientists and support staff whose deployment to the Antarctic and Arctic […]

The Climate Change Institute is pleased to announce a new workforce development program, the Graduate Certificate in Climate Science and Adaptation. This online graduate certificate program for working professionals was developed in partnership with the Division of Lifelong Learning and UMaineOnline. Coursework entails nine credit hours with graduate-level courses in the physical science basis for […]

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 Sun Journal about the weather highlights of 2022. Birkel told the Sun Journal that the last of the winter snowpack melted earlier than usual on March 8, and […]

Studying the response of Antarctic ice sheets to past warming episodes is essential to understand how they may respond to the present warming climate, as their melting and collapse can contribute to global sea level rise. Detailed records of past ocean temperatures close to the continent are rare, but clues to how ice sheets and […]