Investigation of Historic Coastal Sand Inundation, Shetland UK Travel Assistance and Equipment Shipping Funding Provided by Dan and Betty Churchill Expedition Members: Alice Kelley, Joe Kelley, Lee Sorrell Introduction This research is a part of The Shetland Islands Climate and Settlement Project (SICSP), an NSF-funded, collaborative study aimed at determining the chronology, causes and extent […]
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Kahiltna Glacier, Alaska 2012 Seasonal Correlation of Air Temperature and Isotopic Composition of Snowfall in the Central Alaska Range 2012 Field Team Members: Seth Campbell, Curtis Marston, Lyndsey Marston, Josh Plourde (University of Maine); Kristin Schild, Hazel Shapiro (Dartmouth College); Adam Toolanen (Lund University, Sweden) Location of Field Expedition: Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska […]
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The University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer was featured in News Center Maine and Daily Express reports on heat records worldwide. Nearly the entire planet was labeled red this week, meaning most of the world experienced hotter-than-average temperatures for late July. The effects of the heatwave include wildfires in Greece, forest fires in […]
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WMTW (Channel 8 in Portland) quoted Sean Birkel, Maine’s state climatologist and a research assistant professor at the University of Maine, and Ellen Mallory, an associate professor with the Cooperative Extension and the School of Food and Agriculture at UMaine, in a report on Maine’s climate future. The average temperature in Maine has risen by […]
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Khumbu Glacier, Nepal A Kinematic Survey of Khumbu Glacier, Nepal: A contribution to the study of how global warming affects glaciers in the Himalaya and the consequences for massive populations in Asia Field Members: Adam Barker (University of Washington, PhD Candidate) and Lauren Wheeler (University of Maine, Master’s student) Funding: This project is funded by […]
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Maya Obsidian of the Three Rivers region, Belize May 17th, 2012 to June 14th, 2012 CCI Participant: Walter Beckwith Funding Support: Dan and Betty Churchill Fund, Programme for Belize Archaeological Project. The Ancient Maya of southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and Honduras represent one of the most complex and sophisticated pre-Columbian societies in the Americas. For […]
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Beartooth Mountains, Montana 2012 Nitrogen Subsidies in Glacial Meltwater: Implications for High Elevation Aquatic Chains Beartooth Mountains, Montana – 2012 Field Team Members: Kate Warner, Jasmine Saros, Carl Tuggend, Katie Norris and Jenny Shrum Dates: July 18th – August 8th 2012 Funding for this project was generously provided by the Dan and Betty Churchill Exploration […]
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Los Morteros, Chao Valley, Peru 2012 Geoarchaeological Explorations of an Early Mound, North Coast of Peru Research Report Submitted to the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine as a requirement for the Dan and Betty Churchill Exploration Fund December, 2012 Introduction Los Morteros is a mound-shaped archaeological site located on the […]
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Researchers with UMaine’s Climate Change Institute will be blogging while on a trip to South Georgia Island in the South Atlantic Ocean. The expedition members are Climate Change Institute Director Paul Mayewski, UMaine graduate students Bjorn Grigholm and Mariusz Potocki, UMaine postdoctoral researcher Dan Dixon, Chilean researchers Gino Casassa and Marcelo Arevalo, EMT medic Alex […]
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Roosevelt Island Climate Evolution (RICE) Introduction RICE is an international collaboration between New Zealand, USA, Denmark, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, Italy, China, and Sweden. The aim of the project is to recover a 750 m deep ice core from Roosevelt Island in Antarctica to determine the stability of the Ross Ice Shelf and West Antarctica […]
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