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Miocene and Pliocene Ice and Air from the Allan Hills Blue Ice Area, East Antarctica. PNAS. S. Shackleton et al. 2025 – A. Kurbatov, C. Introne and others

 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2502681122 with DOI number 10.1073/pnas.2502681122 Paper reports the discovery of ice, that is up to 6 million years old. Isotopic temperatures from this ice indicate progressive cooling over the Pliocene; enigmatic basal ice from the Miocene is characterized by even warmer temperatures and may reflect a relic from the adolescent days of the Antarctic ice […]

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Reviewing Drone setup on site.

Capturing spatial variation of snowmelt on the Juneau Icefield, Alaska

Expedition Location: Juneau Icefield, Juneau, Alaska Expedition Dates: Jun 29, 2025 to July 19, 2025 Field Team Members: Wyatt Stanley, Scott Braddock, Mathilde Børch, and Seth Campbell Funding Support: Dan and Betty Churchill Exploration Foundation, NSF CAREER grant (PI Campbell), and the University of Maine Graduate Student Government Background and Significance: Glaciers worldwide are melting […]

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"Blue" icebergs (Naajat Serimat Glacier)

Quantifying changes in glacier dynamics of marine-terminating glaciers retreating and transitioning to land between 1943 and 2025 in South Greenland fjords

Expedition Location: Qalerallit Imaat and Sermilik Fjord, South Greenland Expedition Dates: Jun 11 to 16, 2025 Field Team Members: Mathilde Børch, Kristin Schild, Lee Karp-Boss, Allie Berry, Kayla Guthrie, Miranda Seixas, Wyatt Stanley, and Seth Campbell Funding Support: The Robert and Judith Sturgis Family Foundation, and NSF SAUNNA NRT Background and Significance: Today, glaciers worldwide […]

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Investigating microbial community composition and function in glacially-fed lakes in Jostedalsbreen, Norway

Expedition Location: Sogndal, Norway Expedition Dates: July 27, 2025 – August 8, 2025 Field Team Members: Miranda Seixas*, Kayla Guthrie, Misa Saros, Jacob Yde, Jasmine Saros Funding Support: The Robert and Judith Sturgis Family Foundation Exploration Fund Introduction: The cryosphere is anywhere on Earth where water is frozen, including ice sheets, ice caps, mountain glaciers, […]

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Jefferson Cardia Simoes – Elected Fellow of the World Academy of Sciences

Jefferson Cardia SIMÕES has been elected a fellow of the World Academy of Sciences/TWAS [TWAS UNESCO (https://twas.org/)]. The nominee has made significant contributions to the science of ice cores and is one of the most distinguished Latin-American glaciologists. His achievements include reconstructing acid pollution in Svalbard ice cores and detecting arsenic and uranium pollution in […]

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Newsweek discusses new island formation in Alaska with Kreutz

Newsweek reported on the melting of The Alsek Glacier in Alaska’s Glacier Bay National Park, which has created a new island in Alsek Lake. The new land formation brings to light pre-existing concerns about global warming and rising sea levels. Karl Kreutz, University of Maine School of Earth and Climate Sciences director and Climate Change […]

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Recently Released Results from the Highest Ice Core (Mt. Everest).

Climate Change Institute Everest researchers (Mariusz Potocki and Paul Andrew Mayewski) recently released results  from the highest ice core ever recovered https://doi.org/10.31223/X50X7C Photo by Dirk Collins, National Geographic. Abstract We present a unique atmospheric chemistry record from the highest ice core ever recovered (8020 m, South Col Glacier (SCG), Mt. Everest), that captures ~400 years of deposition […]

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Press Herald interviews Mayewski on extreme weather happening in Maine

The Portland Press Herald interviewed Paul Mayewski, director of the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, on the future of extreme weather events in Maine. “Climate change will continue. These extremes are going to continue,” Mayewski said. “And changes aren’t necessarily going to be gradual.” The city of Portland is currently updating its emergency preparedness […]

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