The climatic and cultural history of El Niño in Ancient Peru will be the focus of the 17th annual Geddes W. Simpson Lecture at the University of Maine on Sept. 19. Daniel Sandweiss, a UMaine professor of anthropology and climate studies, will give a lecture titled “Climate, Catastrophe, Collapse? Using Climatic and Cultural History to […]
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WVII (Channel 7) quoted Ivan Fernandez, a professor of soil science and forest resources and a cooperating professor in the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, in an report on a citizens’ hearing about air quality. The hearing, “Maine Speaks on Climate and Cars,” was held by the Natural Resources Council of Maine […]
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The Bangor Daily News quoted Sean Birkel, Maine’s state climatologist and a research assistant professor at the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, in the article, “Maine’s fall foliage is popping up early this year.” Some trees in Maine are already changing color, which could be the result of drought putting the trees under stress, […]
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The Falmouth Enterprise reports George Jacobson, a professor emeritus of biology, ecology and climate change at the University of Maine, will speak at a fall gardening forum in Cape Cod. The Master Gardener Association of Cape Cod will host the event at the Harwich Community Center in Harwich, Massachusetts from 9 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. […]
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Dr. Jefferson Cardia Simões will receive the National Order of Scientific Merit (Portuguese: Ordem Nacional do Mérito Científico) during an award ceremony in October 2018. This honor is bestowed to Brazilian and foreign personalities in recognition of their scientific and technical contributions to the cause and development of science in Brazil. Dr. Simões is receiving this […]
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Published by K. Miner and others (2018) Water: 10(9), 1157 http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/10/9/1157/htm To assess the presence of organochlorine pollutants (OCP) in Alaskan sub-Arctic latitudes, we analyzed ice core and meltwater samples from Jarvis Glacier, a polythermal glacier in Interior Alaska. Jarvis Glacier is receding as atmospheric warming continues throughout the region, increasing opportunity for OCP transport […]
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Antarctica holds nearly two-thirds of the planet’s fresh water, bound in solid ice. To put that in a hypothetical perspective; were all that ice in the Antarctic and all the ice in the Arctic to melt, sea levels worldwide would rise by nearly 70 metres. That is how much freshwater is frozen on earth and that is […]
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A Multi-Proxy, Millennial-Scale Assessment of Climate, Vegetation, Fire, and Human Impacts in Jamaica, West Indies Fieldwork team members: Mario Williams (Lead Investigator, M.S. Ecology & Environmental Sciences Candidate, Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, USA); Andrea Nurse (Paleoecology Research Associate, Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, USA); Romario Anderson (MPhil Candidate, Department of Geography […]
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Samoa’s Climate Change Adaptation Landscape Churchill Exploration Fund Trip Report July 5-July 23, 2018 Anna McGinn, Climate Change Institute and School for Policy and International Affairs, University of Maine Anama Solofa, School for Marine Science MS ‘18, University of Maine Samoa is a small island state in the South Pacific Ocean. On most maps, it […]
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The Bangor Daily News interviewed Susan Elias, a vector ecologist at the University of Maine Climate Change Institute and a research associate at the Lyme and Vector-Borne Disease Laboratory at the Maine Medical Center Research Institute, for an article about how the invasive Japanese barberry bush helps ticks survive in Maine. Barberry, which was introduced […]
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