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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Aaron Putnam, Peter Strand and Patricia Joyner are highlighted in a feature titled “How boulders in Mongolian mountains reveal the pace of climate change” in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Putnam is an assistant professor in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences and Climate Change Institute, Strand is a doctoral candidate and Joyner […]
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Expedition Date: August 9 – August 19, 2019 Field Team Members: Joseph Mohan (CCI), Dan Engstrom & Mark Edlund (St Croix Watershed Research Station) Expedition Funding Acknowledgement: National Park Service PMIS #160929 Expedition Report: Multiple lines of evidence suggest that wilderness boreal lakes are rapidly changing, with unprecedented appearances of potentially toxic cyanobacterial blooms, the […]
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An Awful and Wonderful Place: Journey to the South Sandwiches Expedition Dates: December 2020 – Feb 2021 Field Team: Paul Mayewski, Mariusz Potocki University of Maine – Climate Change Institute Penguin News, February 7, 2020 PENGUIN News caught up with Pelagic Expeditions’ Skip Novak and three members of the multi-disciplinary scientific expedition that recently spent […]
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Expedition Dates – 1 April-3 June 2019 Field Team: Paul Mayewski, Aaron Putnam, Mariusz Potocki, Heather Clifford, Peter Strand, Laura Mattas University of Maine – Climate Change Institute Photo by Dirk Collins, National Geographic. June 13, 2019 Research Highlights An international team of scientists, climbers and storytellers, led by the National Geographic Society and […]
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GlacierHub detailed Heather Clifford and Alex More’s findings that Saharan dust storms are likely to intensify. Clifford is a graduate student with the Climate Change Institute and More is a research professor at the CCI, a researcher at Harvard University, and an associate professor in the School of Health Sciences at Long Island University in […]
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Geophysicist Seth Campbell was featured in the PBS NewsHour story “A risky expedition to study the ‘doomsday glacier.’” The assistant professor in the Climate Change Institute and School of Earth and Climate Sciences journeyed with a team to Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier — “the largest, most menacing source of rising sea levels all over the world […]
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