Expedition Dates: Summer & Fall 2019; Summer & Fall 2018 Expedition Field Team Members: Alice Kelley1,2, Bonnie Newsom1,3, Arthur Spiess4 1 – University of Maine – Climate Change Institute 2 – University of Maine – School of Earth and Climate Sciences 3 – University of Maine – Department of Anthropology 4 – Maine Historic […]
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Expedition Dates: June 8 – June 20, 2019 Expedition Field Team Members: Katherine C. Glover, Climate Change Institute, University of Maine Jack Ferrara, Ecology and Environmental Science, University of Maine Meredith Helmick, Environmental Geosciences, Concord University Jennifer Philippe, Environmental Geosciences, Concord University Expedition Funding: National Geographic Society Early Career Grant Field Expedition Location: Grand Kankakee Marsh, […]
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Jacquelyn Gill, a paleoecologist and associate professor of climate science at the University of Maine, was interviewed for the Grist article, “Climate change is a catastrophe. But is it an ‘existential threat’?” Gill said, “I’m seeing more and more of this eco-anxiety immobilizing people to the point of just giving up, or saying there’s nothing […]
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Experts affiliated with the University of Maine will take part in two events leading up to the sixth Maine Science Festival. Ivan Fernandez, Distinguished Maine Professor in the Climate Change Institute and the School of Forest Resources, will participate in a Bangor Land Trust session titled “Bangor Climate Change: Resilience and Hope” from 9 a.m. […]
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Cindy Isenhour, an associate professor of anthropology and climate change at the University of Maine, was a recent guest on Maine Public’s “Maine Calling” radio show. The show’s topic was the Zero Waste movement that aims to change the entire system so that no waste goes to landfills.
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Expedition Dates: March 2019 Expedition Field Team Members: Daniel Dixon, Paul Mayewski, and Mariusz Potocki Field Expedition Location: Iceland Field testing of several lightweight shallow ice core drilling systems in order to develop the best option for the upcoming field expedition to Mt. Everest.
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Expedition Dates: June 21 – 29th, 2019 University of Maine: Yong Chen, Lee Karp-Boss, Alice Kelley, Paul Mayewski, Peter Neill, Robert Northington, Neal Pettigrew, Erin Roche, Jasmine Saros, and Kristin Schild University of Southern Maine: Matthew Bampton, Firooza Pavri, Jan Piribeck, Vinton Valentine Maine Law School: Charles Norchi, Jeffrey Thaler Field Expedition Location: […]
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Expedition Date: April 12 – June 3 & June 22 – July 10, 2019 Field Team Members: Vendy Hazukova1,2, Benjamin Burpee 1,2, Todd Burpee, Robert Northington3, and Jasmine Saros1,2 1 University of Maine – Climate Change Institute 2 University of Maine – School of Biology and Ecology 3 Husson University – College of Science and […]
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The latest episode of The Maine Question asks whether studying extinct species can prepare us for the future. Jacquelyn Gill, who also studies survivors of the last ice age, thinks so. To travel back in time, this paleoecologist has crawled into a Siberian permafrost caves to examine a 40,000-year-old mummified lion cub. She’s also excited […]
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Expedition Date: July-August 2019 Field Team Members: Aaron Putnam, Peter Strand, Patricia Joyner (UMaine) Expedition Funding Acknowledgement: National Science Foundation; Comer Family Foundation By Stephanie Fox Editor’s note: This article was produced in partnership with Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications. After sloshing through a soggy swampland, two glacial geologists, a […]
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