April 24, 2018 The University of Maine was again well-represented at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA), held in Washington, D.C. from April 11–15. Alice Kelley, a geoarchaeologist and instructor in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences, Climate Change Institute (CCI), and Anthropology Department, co-organized the session, “Shell Middens: Formation, […]
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CCI MS students Kate Pontbriand and Emily Blackwood won the graduate student Social Sciences award for their joint research on seasonality in Maine shell middens at the 2018 UMaine Student Symposium. Emily Blackwood also won the Alumni Association award.
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A video entitled: Ice Core, Memory of the Planet featuring the research of Dr. Paul A. Mayewski has been posted on the CHATTERMARK website (https://www.chattermarkproject.com/#/rockland/). Mayewski was interviewed by Caroline Losneck and Shoshannah White from Chattermark in Rockland, Maine. Mayewski has led 55 expeditions to some of the remotest polar and high altitude reaches of […]
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Exploring national parks as a teen during a family cross-country trip made a lasting impression on Kayla Greenawalt. “It made me want to be around that environment and protect the environment,” says the University of Maine ecology and environmental sciences major. Greenawalt, who returned from a research trip to the Falkland Islands with Ph.D. student […]
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Jill Pelto, a graduate student in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences at the University of Maine, was mentioned in the opinion piece, “Artists engage the science of climate change,” published in the Press Republican of New York. Earth’s changing climate has brought artists working in all media to express in their own way […]
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Sharon Tisher, a lecturer in the University of Maine’s School of Economics and Honors College; and Harold Borns, professor emeritus of the Climate Change Institute and the School of Earth and Climate Sciences at UMaine, wrote an opinion piece for the Bangor Daily News titled, “Climate change under Trump: A perfect storm.” Tisher is a […]
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Science named a study co-led by the University of Maine as one of nine runners-up for the 2017 Breakthrough of the Year. In August, researchers at UMaine, in collaboration with Princeton University, announced the recovery of an Antarctic ice core that contained record-setting ice 2.7 million years old — shattering the previous record by 1.7 […]
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Mariah Radue is the recipient of an Outstanding Student Paper Award at the 2017 Fall Meeting of the AGU100. The presentation title is: Chronology of the Last Termination of Tsagaan Gol-Potanin Glacier Valley, Altai Mountains, Mongolia using 10Be surface-exposure dating. Link to AGU100 site.
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In August, Dan Sandweiss lectured on “El Niño y la arqueología de la costa peruana” at Universidad Nacional Pedro Ruiz Gallo, Lambayeque, Peru and at Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru. The professor of anthropology and climate studies was an invited participant to an 10 ober workshop on “Collapse! What Collapse? Societal adaptations […]
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Sean Birkel, Maine’s state climatologist and a research assistant professor at the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, spoke with the Bangor Daily News for the article, “Repeat of ice storm of ’98 unlikely, not impossible.” The BDN reported that the ice storm that devastated Maine 20 years ago was caused by an unusual mix […]
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