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Negotiate an international climate change agreement at the Hutchinson Center

Have you ever wondered what it might be like to sit at a table negotiating climate policy with nearly 200 representatives from countries throughout the world? University of Maine graduate students Anna McGinn and Will Kochtitzky, who attended the annual United Nations Climate Change Conference in Poland last December, will facilitate a two-hour, interactive simulation […]

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World Climate Negotiation Simulations to be held at Maine schools in May – A. McGinn & Will Kochtitzky

University of Maine graduate students are partnering with schools across Maine to host World Climate Negotiation Simulation (WCS) activities. The simulation activity was developed by the nongovernmental organization Climate Interactive and involves a role play in which participants act as country leaders and work together to negotiate a global climate agreement. The simulation emulates negotiations […]

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UMaine earns STARS Silver sustainability rating – Dan Dixon

The University of Maine earned its first STARS Silver Rating from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) for recycling and composting nearly half of its waste; promoting student life opportunities, including a Green Living and Learning dorm floor; reducing water consumption by 20 percent per campus user; and more. STARS, […]

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2019 Borns Symposium Awards

The Harold W. Borns, Jr. Symposium is an annual event that features presentations and discussion by Climate Change Institute graduate students and faculty on emerging research and topics related to global environmental change.   Below is a listing of the 2019 Borns Symposium awardees: The Churchill Award for Outstanding Exploration: Anna McGinn Best Student Poster Award […]

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Follow a Researcher® highlights UMaine student studying iceberg melt

Maine 4-H Follow a Researcher® returns for a sixth season with University of Maine graduate student researchers. From 1–2 p.m. May 2, UMaine Earth and climate sciences master’s student Mariama Dryak will be available on Twitter to chat with students and teachers about her studies using satellites to track iceberg melt in Antarctica. Dryak will […]

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Looking into the recent history of Thwaites Glacier

Expedition Dates: January – March, 2019 Field Team Members: Scott Braddock1,2, Meghan Spoth1,2 Climate Change Institute, 2. School of Earth and Climate Science – University of Maine Expedition Funding: National Science Foundation award: PLR-1738989   Summary: Accelerated ice retreat in recent decades for Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet has […]

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Smart Water Magazine published UMaine release on lake study by Warner, Saros

Smart Water Magazine published a University of Maine news release on a study of dissolved organic carbon in Maine lakes by Kate Warner and Jasmine Saros, researchers in UMaine’s Climate Change Institute and School of Biology and Ecology. The study monitored concentrations of dissolved organic carbon in Maine lakes before and after severe rainstorms and […]

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VillageSoup advances shell middens talk by Kelley

VillageSoup advanced a talk by Alice Kelley, an instructor in the University of Maine School of Earth and Climate Science and research associate professor in the Climate Change Institute. Kelley will discuss Maine’s shell middens at noon April 30 at Merryspring Nature Center in Camden. The talk will focus on the record the middens archive […]

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