Nicaragua’s Climate Change Adaptation Landscape 2017 Churchill Exploration Fund Trip Report July 25- August 11, 2017 Anna McGinn, Climate Change Institute and School for Policy and International Affairs, University of Maine Adeline Schneider, Undergraduate College of Liberal Arts and Science ’17, University of Maine Lindsey Stum, Dickinson College ’14, Spanish translator This research trip served […]
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Beartooth Mountains 2017 UNDERSTANDING AULACOSEIRA ECOLOGY TO REALIZE THE LENTIC RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE Journey to Beartooth Mountains, south central Montana – northwest Wyoming July 5 – August 2, 2017 Field Team: Edna Pedraza Garzón and Benjamin Burpee Background Alpine lakes are considered ideal sensors of climate due to the distinctive and accurate response of […]
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Paleoecology of Plant Communities around Treeline at Maine’s Oldest Pond Acadia National Park 2017 Field Team Members: Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie, Jacquelyn Gill, Katherine Glover, Ben Burpee, Abe Miller-Rushing (Acadia National Park) Research Location: Acadia National Park September 26-30, 2017 Funding Support: David H. Smith Fellowship Sargent Mountain Pond in Acadia National Park has the distinction […]
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The Westwind II Expedition: South Georgia 2017 Field Science Team Members: Mariusz Potocki, Charles Rodda, – Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, USA; Jone Mungia – Universidad de Magallanes, Punta Arenas, Chile; Skip Novak – Pelagic Australis, Cape Town, South Africa On October 2017, two CCI graduate student researchers, Charles Rodda and Marius (Mario) Potocki, and a […]
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Gizmodo, Quartz and LabRoots reported on a new study published in Geophysical Research Letters by researchers at the University of Washington and University of Maine. The current record for a continuous ice core is 800,000 years, but the new research shows an even older continuous core may exist deep within the Allan Hills Blue Ice […]
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Cindy Isenhour, an assistant professor of anthropology and climate change at the University of Maine and a cooperating faculty member at the Climate Change Institute, was interviewed by News Center Maine for a report on reducing plastic straw waste. Many restaurants in Maine, from Portland to Bar Harbor, are looking for alternatives to plastic straws […]
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Research by Nicholas Richmond, a master’s student from the Univeristy of Maine, has recently been selected by American Geophysical Union as the top Graduate virtual poster in 2018. Nick’s project was titled: “3D Bedrock Channel Evolution with Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Coupled to a Finite Element Earth.” Link to AGU announcement
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Explaining the dynamics of an ice age landscape to a classroom of middle-schoolers can be a daunting challenge for teachers. Researchers in the lab examine evidence such as pollen and other tiny fossils, and particulate matter contained in sediment core samples to “see” what the ancient landscape once was. But how can this data be […]
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Paul Mayewski speaks about storm surges and sea level rise in an interview for NEXT New England Podcast. Episode 94
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News Center Maine spoke with Kirk Maasch, a professor in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences and the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, and Susan Elias, a UMaine Ph.D. candidate and vector-borne disease ecologist, for a report about the start of Maine’s tick season. Experts say changes in the environment are […]
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