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The impressive size of the Glidden Midden and the even larger Whaleback Midden caught public interest and economic attention in the 19th century. Historic postcards recorded the wish-you-were-here wonder at the size and “mystery” of the middens. They also record the near destruction of the Whaleback Midden in the 1880s, as its contents were mined […]

CentralMaine.com reported Ivan Fernandez, Distinguished Maine Professor in the Climate Change Institute and School of Forest Resources at the University of Maine, will speak during a celebration of a conservation milestone at the Maine Agricultural Trades Show in Augusta on Jan. 15. Maine Woodland Owners announced that it has permanently conserved more than 10,000 acres […]

The Washington Post interviewed Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie, a postdoctoral research fellow with the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, for an article about her research on bird arrivals in Maine. The arrival dates of migratory birds in Maine may not be shifting fast enough to keep up with earlier leaf-out and flowering induced by a […]

Maine Public’s Speaking in Maine is sharing Paul Mayewski’s address titled “Arctic Climate Change and Maine” in December to the Mid-Coast Forum on Foreign Relations in in Camden. Mayewski, director of the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, recently led National Geographic and Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Extreme Expedition to Mount Everest. The world-renowned climate scientist […]

Science magazine spoke with Paul Mayewski, director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, for the article “What’s it like to install a weather station at the top of the world?” Mayewski and Tom Matthews, a climate scientist at Loughborough University in the United Kingdom, were interviewed about their experiences as members […]

What’s it like living and doing research in the world’s most remote locations? Listen as Ron Lisnet continues his conversation with Paul Mayewski, director of the University of Maine Climate Change Institute. In Part 2 of the two-part podcast “The Maine Question,” Mayewski recalls drilling ice cores on glaciers and living in a tent for […]

Der Spiegel interviewed Paul Mayewski, director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, for an article about his experiences on National Geographic’s Perpetual Planet Extreme Expedition to Everest.

In Part 1 of this two-part podcast, “The Maine Question” asks what it’s like in the most remote, harsh and spectacular locations on Earth? Anyone with a thirst for adventure has likely dreamed of seeing the South Pole, Mount Everest, or the massive ice sheets of Greenland. Paul Mayewski has done all of that and […]