Climate Change Institute

Maine Wetlands 2010 Assessing the Effect of Hydrologic Change on Sora and Virginia Rail Populations Ellen Robertson and Brian Olsen Maine (Penobscot and Washington Counties-May through August-2010) The goal of this expedition was to understand how future changes in hydrologic regimes from climate change will impact the breeding marsh birds of the Northeastern United States.  […]

Tarim Basin, Xinjiang, China Palaeoclimate of Central Asia: Glacial geology and palaeohydrology of the Tarim Basin, Xinjiang, China Aaron E. Putnam, George H. Denton Collaborators: Wally Broecker and Joerg Schaefer (Columbia University), David E. Putnam and Chunzeng Wang (University of Maine at Presque Isle), Peter and Fred Quesada (Fore River Company) We ventured to Central […]

Holocene Behavior of Local Ice Caps in East Greenland Brenda Hall, Amanda Lusas August 2010 The Greenland Ice Sheet as well as the rest of the Arctic cryosphere is currently undergoing rapid and dynmaic changes in concert with global warming. However, one unresolved question is whether these changes are unique to the current climate conditions […]

Human-Environment Interaction in the Central Coast of Peru toward the end of the Early Intermediate Period (ca. AD 500-700). A View from a Late Lima Culture Site. Participant: Ana Cecilia Mauricio Location: Lima, Peru Dates: June-August 2010 Introduction Paleoenvironmental studies are critical not only for climatic and environmental reconstructions but also for assessing some of […]

Los Morteros Ground-Penetrating Radar Study, Chaos, Peru CCI Participants:  Daniel Sandweiss, Joseph Kelley, Alice Kelley, Daniel Belknap; CCI Graduate Students:  Kurt Rademaker, Elizabeth Olsen, Cecilia Maurico; CCI Undergraduate Students:  David Reid, Owen McGlamery Dates: July – August 2010 Funding Source:  National Geographic Society Expedition Overview During the second half of July, a team from the […]

BearTooth Mountains 2010 Assessing the release of reactive nitrogen by melting alpine glaciers: effects on diatom diversity and water clarity in lake ecosystems over the last century. Krista Slemmons, Jasmine Saros, Carmen Daggett, Courtney Wigdahl, Dominic Winski, Caleb Slemmons Beartooth Mountains (central Rockies), Montana and Wyoming – August, 2011 The goal this expedition was to […]

Southern Transantarctic Mountains, Beardmore Glacier, Antarctica Constraints on the Last Ross Sea Ice Sheet from Glacial Deposits in the Southern Transantarctic Mountains Beardmore Glacier, Antarctica Brenda Hall, Gordon Bromley Dec. 4 – Dec. 31, 2010 During the last glacial maximum (LGM) the Antarctic Ice Sheet filled the Ross Embayment to a northern limit near Coulman […]

Royal Society Range, Antarctic Ice Sheet Sensitivity of the Antarctic Ice Sheet to the Last Two Glacial/Interglacial Cycles Brenda Hall, Stephanie Allard, Toby Koffman, Calvin Mako, Robin Arnold, Glenn McKenney December 2010 – February 2011 What is the role of the Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) in Quaternary climate change? Despite its importance to Earth’s climate […]