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ORONO, Maine — A University of Maine glaciologist discovered icebergs likely contribute more meltwater to Greenland’s fjords than glaciers do, which can slow the melting rate of glaciers and potentially influence ocean circulation and climate. Greenland, the world’s largest island, is almost entirely covered by a permanent ice sheet that has been shrinking due to […]

The Washington Post, Discover Magazine, Live Science, Pulse Headlines and News and International Business Times cited data from the Climate Reanalyzer, a website run by research assistant professor Sean Birkel at the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, in recent stories on the 36 Fahrenheit degree jump in pre-winter temperatures at the North Pole. The […]

The Washington Post used data from the Climate Reanalyzer, a website produced by the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, for a recent story on the unseasonably warm temperatures sweeping North America. The United States, the story notes, experienced its third-warmest 10 ober on record and the warmth has continued into the first part of […]

The Sydney Morning Herald used data from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer website in a recent story on the way polar heat waves are causing ice at both ends of the Earth to retreat. According to the website, the story noted, “the Arctic region as a whole continues to be very […]

University of Maine archaeologist and associate professor Brian Robinson died 10 . 27 at his home in Orono after a long illness. He was 63. Robinson held joint appointments in the Department of Anthropology and the Climate Change Institute. Prior to joining the UMaine community in 1989 as an assistant research professor, Robinson worked at […]

The BBC reported on Gordon Hamilton’s strong ties to his native Scotland in a story on the climate scientist’s death in Antarctica. Hamilton was born in Dundee, Scotland’s fourth-largest city. A statement from the scientist’s family, quoted in the BBC piece, noted that Hamilton’s interest in geography began while he was attending school in the […]

The New York Times remembered the life and work of University of Maine climate scientist Gordon Hamilton, after his death in a snowmobile accident in Antarctica. In an appreciation, published in the newspaper’s Dot Earth blog, science writer Andrew C. Revkin wrote, “In probing the fast-changing ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland, Gordon Hamilton of […]

Media across the state, country and world reported on the death of University of Maine climate scientist Gordon Hamilton, who was killed in Antarctica on when the snowmobile he was riding fell into a 100-foot crevasse. The New York Times, The Washington Post, Daily Mail, Bangor Daily News, Portland Press Herald and local television stations […]

Gordon Hamilton, a University of Maine professor in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences, and a researcher with the Climate Change Institute, died in a field accident 10 . 22 while conducting research in Antarctica. He was 50. Hamilton, a physical glaciologist, was working on White Island in the Ross Archipelago in Antarctica, an […]

  The first half of 2016-ober-10 was likely the warmest across the Arctic for this time of year since at least 1948, says Maine’s state climatologist. In the Arctic — 65–90 degrees north latitude — on 10 . 7, 2016, the mean daily temperature averaged a balmy minus 3.5 C (25.7 F), a value that’s […]