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Dill, Elias quoted in Public Integrity report on ticks, Lyme disease

Public Integrity interviewed Griffin Dill, an integrated pest management professional with University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the director of the Extension’s new diagnostic laboratory, for a report on ticks and Lyme disease in Maine. The report also quoted Susan Elias, a vector ecologist at the Climate Change Institute. Fifteen tick species live in Maine; […]

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Sandweiss named president-elect of Phi Kappa Phi

Daniel H. Sandweiss, a professor of anthropology and climate studies at the University of Maine, was tapped to be president-elect of Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society at its biennial convention. In 2020, he will be president for two years. Phi Kappa Phi was founded at UMaine in 1897 and Sandweiss is the first national […]

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Media feature Climate Reanalyzer map in reports on July, August heat waves

The University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer was featured in reports by The Barents Observer and the Metro about heat waves in July and August. This summer, exceptionally high temperatures have become the standard for areas north of the Arctic Circle, The Barents Observer states. The Climate Reanalyzer map labels areas that show […]

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Determining Critical Loads of Nitrogen Deposition in the Pacific Northwest

Washington (Alpine Lake Wilderness & Mt. Rainer) Determining Critical Loads of Nitrogen Deposition in the Pacific Northwest Jasmine Saros August 2008 Paleolimnological studies in the Pacific Northwest have suggested possible acidification effects of nitrogen (N) and sulfur (S) deposition on alpine lakes in this region, but have been unable to generate a critical load at […]

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Climate-Induced Shifts in Alpine Diatom Communities: Linking Neoecological and Paleoecological Approaches to Incorporate Responses to Trophic Forcing

Beartooth Mountains, Glacier National Park Climate-Induced Shifts in Alpine Diatom Communities: Linking Neoecological and Paleoecological Approaches to Incorporate Responses to Trophic Forcing Jasmine Saros, Andrea Nurse Field assistants from CCI: Carmen Daggett, Courtney Wigdahl, Randall Perry July 2007, August 2007, August 2008, July 2009 Diatom fossils from lake sediments in the central and northern Rocky […]

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Glacier History of the Western United States

Glacier History of the Western United States – Wind River Range, Wyoming & the Sierra Nevada, California Aaron Putnam, Sean Birkel, George Denton, Kathryn Ladig Collaborators: Joerg M. Schaefer (Columbia University), Edward B. Evenson (Lehigh University), David E. Putnam (University of Maine – Presque Isle), Peter Quesada, Peter Huybers (Harvard University), Richard B. Alley (Penn […]

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Ice Core-Drilling in the Southern Alps

New Zealand 2009 Ice Core Drilling in the Southern Alps Daniel Dixon The mid-latitudes of the Southern Hemisphere have proven particularly challenging for ice core retrieval and interpretation.  Glaciers in southern South America and the Southern Alps experience extraordinarily high rates of snow fall and melt which compromises the length and integrity of records from […]

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