An image from the Climate Reanalyzer developed by Sean Birkel, a research assistant professor with the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, was featured with a Washington Post story about the reassignment of Trump appointee Betsy Weatherhead to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/mt-everest-pollution/2021/04/16/7b341ff0-909f-11eb-bb49-5cb2a95f4cec_story.html By Murray Carpenter April 17, 2021 at 9:30 a.m. EDT From an elevation of 27,600 feet, just below the summit of Everest, researcher Mariusz Potocki could see one of the planet’s most dramatic scenes — the snow-capped Himalayas against a deep blue sky. He was on a mission to gather snow and ice samples […]
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Expedition Dates: May 31 – August 11, 2019 Field Team Members: Elise K. Gudde1,2, Danielle L. Levesque1,2, Stephanie Ross3 1 School of Biology and Ecology, University of Maine, USA 2 Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, USA 3 Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Conservation Biology, University of Maine, USA Expedition Funding: UMS Research Reinvestment […]
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Expedition Dates: May 31 – August 11, 2019 Field Team Members: Ana M. Breit1,2, Tal Kleinhause-Goldman Gedalyahou3, Khairul Ikhwan4, Marcellinus Isaac Stia Dominic4, Andrew Alec Tuen4, Danielle L. Levesque 1,2 1 School of Biology and Ecology, University of Maine, USA 2 Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, USA 3 Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Conservation […]
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The Bangor Daily News shared a University of Maine news release highlighting a recent NASA New Investigator Program (NIP) award to Kristin Schild, a glaciologist and assistant research professor in UMaine’s School of Earth and Climate Sciences. Schild, the first Maine-based researcher to receive a NASA NIP award since 2003, will use the nearly $380,000 […]
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10.1029/2020GL091602 Dominic A. Winski1 , Erich C. Osterberg2 , Karl J. Kreutz1 , David G. Ferris2, Jihong Cole-Dai3 , Zayta Thundercloud2, Jiayue Huang4, Becky Alexander4 , Lyatt Jaeglé4 , Joshua A. Kennedy3, Carleigh Larrick3, Emma C. Kahle5 , Eric J. Steig5 , and Tyler R. Jones6 1Climate Change Institute and School of Earth and Climate […]
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Expedition Dates: July 2020 Expedition Field Team Members: J. Curt Stager, Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, and Paul Smith’s College; Skylar Murphy, Environmental Science, Paul Smith’s College Expedition Funding: Draper-Lussi Endowed Chair Fund Field Expedition Location: Albany Pine Bush, Albany, NY Summary: The Albany Pine Bush is a unique forest habitat dominated by pitch […]
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Research led by University of Maine glaciologist Kristin Schild to quantify and predict iceberg melting rates has received NASA New (Early Career) Investigator Program (NIP) in Earth Science funding. Schild received one of 38 NASA NIP awards and is the first Maine-based researcher to receive the triennial recognition since 2003. The assistant research professor with […]
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Kristin Schild, a physical glaciologist at the University of Maine, broadly studies interactions between ice and the ocean. Her research has taken her all over the world, including to Greenland and Patagonia, at the southern tip of South America. Schild became interested in glaciology through physics. She completed her undergraduate degree in psychology, with physics […]
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When Madeleine (Madi) Landrum hiked the Appalachian and Pacific Crest trails in 2018, she saw thousands of acres of trees devastated by drought-induced wildfires and invasive pests. “Seeing how damaged the forests were in these gorgeous natural places, I felt that I needed to do something,” says the University of Maine ecology and environmental sciences […]
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