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El Niño, Power, and Resilience in the Lambayeque Valley: Building Connections for Future Research

Expedition Field Team Members: Elizabeth Leclerc1,2*, Heather Landázuri1,2*, Daniel Sandweiss1,2, Oswaldo Chozo Capuñay3, Alberto López 1Climate Change Institute, University of Maine 2Department of Anthropology, University of Maine 3Túcume Archaeological Site and Museum *Student grantees Field Expedition Location: Lambayeque Valley, Peru Expedition Dates: June 2022 Funding Support: The Robert & Judith Sturgis Family Foundation […]

Gill earns an inaugural Excellence in Science Communication award from National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

University of Maine paleoecologist Jacquelyn Gill is one of the inaugural recipients of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communication from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The awards recognize researchers and science journalists “who have developed creative, original work that addresses issues and advances in science, engineering and/or […]

Characterizing the Effects of Elevation and Ice Deformation on the Begguya (Mt. Hunter) Ice Core Record

Expedition Field Team Members: Emma Erwin 1,2,3 Ingalise Kindstedt1, Liam Kirkpatrick4,5, Scott Braddock1,2 1University of Maine, Climate Change Institute 2University of Maine, School of Earth and Climate Sciences 3Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory 4Dartmouth College, Department of Earth Science 5University of Washington, Department of Earth and Space Science Expedition Funding: The Robert and […]

Insects cause more damage to leaves in recent history than millions of years ago, study finds – Azevedo-Schmidt

Insect herbivores have caused more damage to plant matter from leaves in recent history than millions of years ago, according to a new study led by a University of Maine postdoctoral researcher. Despite global insect decline and biodiversity loss fueled by human activity, the frequency of leaf damage by insects among forest plants in recent […]

Sandweiss interviewed by New York Times about archaeology in Peru

Daniel Sandweiss, professor of anthropology at the University of Maine, spoke to the New York Times about the impact of looting and development on archaeological sites in coastal Peru. “It’s a victory every time archaeologists can recover something responsibly and put it into the record. Peru has the most fascinating pre-European records of any place […]

Old Glaciers and New Methods: Applied Ground Truthing Methods for Ground Penetrating Radar on the Seward Glacier

Expedition Dates: May 2022 Expedition Field Team Members: Jonathan Maurer (M.Sc. Student)1, 2 Dr. Seth Campbell1, 2 Dr. Kristin Schild1, 2 Dr. Yifeng Zhu3 1) University of Maine – School of Earth and Climate Sciences 2) Climate Change Institute, University of Maine 3) University of Maine – Electrical and Computer Engineering Expedition Funding: […]

A Sky Island Perspective: New England Alpine Plant Community Change Through Time and Space

Expedition Dates: June 2021 – October 2021 Expedition Field Team Members: Andrea Tirrell¹², Michael Cianchette², Mackenzie Connor² ¹Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, USA ²School of Biology and Ecology, University of Maine, USA Expedition Funding: Churchill Exploration Fund Field Expedition Location: New England alpine sites (New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont) Project Overview: […]

‘The Maine Question’ asks what it’s like being an archaeologist – D. Sandweiss

Daniel Sandweiss’s archaelogy career doesn’t mirror depictions of those in movies like “Indiana Jones,” but for him, it’s been equally as exciting. Over the years, Sandweiss, a University of Maine professor in the Anthropology Department and Climate Change Institute, has uncovered extensive evidence into how ancient civilization dealt with natural disasters, such as climate change, […]

Mayewski, Beals co-author op-ed for The Hill about the urgency of addressing climate change

Paul Mayewski, director and professor at the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, and Anders Beal, associate in the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and former UMaine graduate student of Global Policy, co-authored an opinion piece for The Hill about how critical this decade is in terms of addressing the climate crisis […]

Lyon speaks to the Guardian about September heat waves in California

Bradfield Lyon, a research professor at the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, spoke to the Guardian about this September’s record-breaking heat waves in California. “By mid-century, the [spatial] size of heatwaves in the US are expected to increase between about 50% to 80% from what they are in the current climate. The frequency will […]

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