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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Glacier History of New Zealand Southern Alps from LGM to present Field Team Members: George H. Denton, Aaron E. Putnam, Tobias N.B. Koffman (Ph.D. candidate), Peter D. Strand (M.S. candidate) Collaborators: Dr. Joerg M. Schaefer (Columbia University), Dr. Michael R. Kaplan (Columbia University), David J.A. Barrell (GNS Science), Dr. Brian M. Anderson (Victoria University of […]
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Ground Penetrating Radar of Investigation of Coastal Environments: the Republic of Ireland Field Team Members: Lee Sorrell & Joseph Kelley June 11-22, 2013 Field Season Funding Support: Dan and Betty Churchill Exploration Fund This research is aimed at further understanding beach and coastal systems in relation to sea-? level change in the Republic Ireland. […]
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Tidal Marsh Bird Studies Across the Northeastern U.S., 2013 Field Team Members: Mo Correll, Kate Ruskin, Brian Olsen, Tom Hodgman Field Location: Maine to Virginia, with intensive demographic study in Scarborough Marsh, ME Dates: May-September 2013 Funding Support: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Science Foundation, Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, University of […]
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The Bangor Daily News cited a 2015 University of Maine Climate Change Institute report on Maine’s climate future in the op-ed “Reducing Maine’s carbon emissions now will pay off later.” The report found flood zones in Maine have expanded, the habitat for lobsters is moving north, and ticks and Lyme disease have an increasing presence […]
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Terminal Pleistocene glaciation of high-altitude Andes near Chivay, Peru: Implications for tropical Paleoclimate and Paleoindian-age People Field Team Members: Scott Braddock, Paul Pluta, Gordon Bromley Field Season: Chivay, Peru July 1, 2013 – July 21, 2013 Scientific Goals and Rationale Our research aimed to use glacial geology to address how glaciers behaved during the Terminal Pleistocene in […]
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Basal Ice Core Pilot Study: Nevado Osjollo Anante, Cordillera Vilcanota, Peru Expedition Team: Charles Rodda,*ab Skylar Haines,ab Anton Seimon,bcBaker Perryc a) UMaine School of Earth and Climate Sciences, b) Climate Change Institute, c) Appalachian State University; Boone, North Carolina *Please direct questions and further communications to the author July 12 – August 1, 2013 Cordillera Vilcanota, Peru […]
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Field Team Members: Kristin Strock, Jasmine Saros, Daniel Engstrom*, and James Almendinger* *St. Croix Watershed Research Station, Science Museum of Minnesota Dates: August 21st – August 29th 2013 Funding for this project was generously provided by the Dan and Betty Churchill Exploration Fund and the National Park Service George Melendez Wright Fellowship Isle Royale National […]
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Climate-Driven Changes in Nutrients and Water Column Stability in Lakes of Southwestern Greenland Field Team Members: Benjamin Burpee, Jasmine Saros, Robert Northington, and Emily Rice Dates: July 15th – August 2nd 2013 Southwestern Greenland Kangerlussuaq (67°00′31″ N 50°41′21″ W) is located in southwestern Greenland in the widest margin between the coast and ice sheet at 180 km. […]
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