Climate Change Institute

The combination of global atmospheric warming and westerly winds shifting toward the poles will likely speed up the recession of mountain glaciers in both hemispheres, according to a UMaine study. Mountain glaciers freeze and gain mass when the climate cools, and melt and lose mass when the climate warms. The extent to which the fluctuations […]

EES/SBE/CCI PhD student Alessandro Mereghetti has been awarded an NSF Arctic DDRIG: Assessing the impacts of Pleistocene megaherbivores n vegetation stability and resilience in the Arctic ($56,118). This will support his upcoming fieldwork in Alaska, using ancient DNA to reconstruct the last 120,000 years around Squirrel Lake in the Kotzebue Sound region.

In an article about the warming Arctic regions of Alaska, the Associated Press cited information from the University of Maine Climate Reanalyzer that showed last Sunday, the Arctic as a whole averaged 11.5 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the 1979-2000 average temperature. The following Monday, Climate Reanalyzer’s computer models showed that average to likely be 10.5 […]

Ivan Fernandez, professor at the University of Maine School of Forest Resources and Climate Change Institute, was a panelist on Maine Public’s show Maine Calling about the importance of soil in human lives and for the planet.

To recruit more women for careers in the forestry industry, particularly the bioenergy sector, University of Maine researchers have devised a road map. The team, led by Abigayl “Abby” Novak, a master’s student in forest resources at the BioEnergy Lab of the School of Forest Resources (SFR), found that attracting and retaining women in bioenergy […]

The University of Maine’s Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR) has announced the 2022-23 CUGR and Maine Space Grant Consortium (MSGC) academic year graduate fellowship winners. The CUGR Research and Creative Activities fellowships were developed to enhance and increase undergraduate and graduate student involvement in faculty-supervised research and are supported through the office of the Vice […]

Nun Kun Massif, Ladakh, Indian Himalayas.Photo by Paul Mayewski UMaine Climate Change Institute celebrates 50th anniversary November 21, 2022 The University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2023, marking half-century of research and education related to climate change in Maine, New England and across the planet. In 1973, professor emeritus Harold […]

The nation’s first multi- and inter-disciplinary research institute to study Earth’s recent and long-term climate variability was founded in 1972 at the University of Maine. That institute, now known as the Climate Change Institute, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, a milestone that honors the many groundbreaking discoveries its scientists have made in the […]

hough freshwater systems are known to be important indicators for understanding climate change, little has been done to connect the existing science on freshwater bodies in the Arctic in order to determine patterns that will help better understand the region. A University of Maine-led review has tied together the existing research about Arctic freshwater systems’ […]