The Cause of Ice-Age Terminations, Falkland Islands Jillian Pelto, Dr. Brenda Hall, & Dr. Thomas Lowell February — March 2015 Funding Support: Dan & Betty Churchill Exploration Fund I accompanied Dr. Brenda Hall of the University of Maine and Dr. Thomas Lowell of the University of Cincinnati to the Falkland Islands for three weeks from […]
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Research at 51oS Churchill Exploration Fund Trip Report Falkland Islands 2016 January 14 – February 13, 2016 Kit Hamley, Dulcinea Groff, Jacquelyn Gill When I sat down months ago to begin planning this expedition, the vision I had swirling around my mind was one of perfection. A trip free of mishap or hindrance, and brimming […]
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The Westwind Expedition: South Georgia Leg 2015 Field Team Members: Dr. Paul Mayewski, Jeff Auger, Benjamin Burpee, Mariusz Potocki – Climate Change Institute University of Maine, USA Dr. Gino Casassa Rogazinski – Universidad de Magallanes, Punta Arenas, Chile James Hooper – University of Wollongong, Australia Thomas Smallwood – Imperial College, London, UK Skip Novak – Pelagic […]
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Human Adaptations to Climate Change on the North Coast of Peru: Satellite, Survey, and Geophysical Investigation of Archaeological Sites Field Team Members: Ani St. Amand Chao Valley, Peruvian North Coast July 24 – August 4, 2016 Funding Support: Dan & Betty Churchill Exploration Fund Research Background Like many places on Earth, human populations on the North […]
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Field Team Members: Peter D. Strand (PhD candidate), George H. Denton, Aaron E. Putnam, Jillian Pelto (M.S. candidate) Collaborators: Dr. Joerg M. Schaefer (Columbia University), David J.A. Barrell (GNS Science), Dr. Brian M. Anderson (Victoria University of Wellington), Dr. Andrew Mackintosh (Victoria University of Wellington), Dr. Joellen Russel (University of Arizona) New Zealand Southern Alps. January […]
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Effects of Geese & Caribou on Nutrient and Carbon Inputs to Arctic Lakes in Southwest Greenland Field Team Members: Carl Tugend, Jasmine Saros, Kate Warner, Rachel Fowler, and Andrea Nurse Dates: June 28th – July 20th 2016 Funding for this project was generously provided by the Dan and Betty Churchill Exploration Fund Background: Climate change generates a […]
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Holocene Deglaciation at Amundsen and Liv Glaciers, Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica Field Team Members: Dr. Brenda Hall, Joel Gombiner (pHd candidate at UWashington), Jessica Badgeley (phD candidate UWashington), Jill Pelto, Karen Hilton (mountaineer), and Dr. John Stone (UWashington) December 2016 – January 2017 Funding Source: National Science Foundation Blog link: https://umaine.edu/earthclimate/research/glacial-geology-and-geochronology-research-group/news/ Background: The Antarctic Ice […]
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Hot or Cold? Assessing “seasonality” during the paradoxical Heinrich Stadial 1 using glacier geochronology in northwest Scotland Field team members: Allie Balter1,2, Holly Thomas2, Gordon Bromley1,2, Steve Barker3 1. Climate Change Institute, University of Maine 2. School of Earth and Climate Sciences, University of Maine 3. School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University March […]
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Understanding Paleo-Climate, Modern Climate, and Glacier Dynamics in Western Canada: Field Report from Eclipse Ice Field Field Team Members: Karl Kreutz, Seth Campbell, Will Kochtitzky, Brittany Main (University of Ottawa PhD candidate), and Leslie Sobel (Artist) May 2017 Introduction to Research Project at Eclipse Ice Field: Our research objectives at Eclipse Ice Field are broad including […]
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Mt. Logan, St. Elias Range, Yukon, Canada Field Team: Aaron Chesler1,2, Karl Kreutz1,2, Seth Campbell2,3, Adam Toolanen4 1 Climate Change Institute, 2 School of Earth and Climate Sciences, University of Maine Orono, 3 University of Washington, 4 Field Assistant May – June 2017 Project Rational Each Pacific El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) event has globally reaching effects (Rodriguez-Fonseca et al., 2016 […]
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