Climate Change Institute

Climate Change: Scientific Evidence or Alternative ‘Facts’?” will be the focus of a an illustrated public lecture April 19 at the University of Maine by Paul Mayewski, director of UMaine’s Climate Change Institute. Mayewski will discuss the emerging approaches to the climate change issue and provide suggestions for public engagement to raise awareness. The free […]

ORONO, Maine — University of Maine graduate students and faculty will make more than 60 presentations about emerging physical, chemical, social and ecological climate change research, on topics ranging from lobsters to deer ticks, at the 25th annual Harold W. Borns Jr. Symposium on April 13–14 in Wells Conference Center. The symposium’s namesake, Professor Emeritus […]

Paul Mayewski, director of the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, spoke with the Bangor Daily News for the article, “Climate change skeptic group’s mailing campaign targets Maine teachers.” Last week, thousands of science teachers across the nation, including several in Maine, received mail from an organization trying to convince them that scientists are split […]

The Times Record reported Paul Mayewski, director of the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, will be the featured speaker at the UMaine Mid Coast Alumni Chapter’s annual Maine Spirit Spring Dinner. Mayewski has led more than 55 expeditions and has been the recipient of numerous scientific and academic awards from institutions throughout the world, […]

Paul Mayewski, director of the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, was quoted in the CBS News report, “Arctic sea ice dwindles to record low for winter.” The National Snow and Ice Data Center in Colorado found that in March, the Arctic set a record low for winter peak sea ice area: 5.57 million square […]

A forensics researcher on the front lines of the drug abuse crisis in Maine and nationwide, the founder of UMaine’s nationally recognized Writing Center and an international expert on El Niño will receive the University of Maine’s top annual faculty awards. Research Professor Marcella Sorg will receive the 2017 Presidential Public Service Achievement Award; Professor […]

University of Maine Professor Emeritus Hal Borns and Gary Hoyle, artist and former curator at the Maine State Museum, will present “Mammoths in Maine,” at 2 p.m. March 28 in the Bodwell Lounge of the Hudson Museum. Borns and Hoyle will speak about the history of the ancient animal in the state. A tusk was […]

Pascal Bohleber’s findings about ice thickness on Mount Kilimanjaro are featured in Eos, a publication of the American Geophysical Union. Bohleber is an adjunct research assistant professor at the Climate Change Institute. In 2015, he led a team that — for the first time — took ground-penetrating radar to Kilimanjaro’s 6,000-meter-high summit. “It’s like an […]

In 1979 and 1980, the late University of Maine archeologist Brian Robinson collected a range of traditional artifacts on a trip through the Amazonian rainforest in Peru. Robinson, who was an associate professor in UMaine’s Department of Anthropology and the Climate Change Institute, died last fall after a battle with pancreatic cancer. Now, visitors to […]

The Kangerlussuaq region of southwest Greenland is a 3,728-square-mile corridor stretching from the ice sheet to the Labrador Sea. In this area near the top of the world, landscape and ecosystem diversity abounds. Flora and fauna range from microbes in the ice sheet to large herbivores — caribou and musk oxen — living on the […]