School of Earth and Climate Sciences

As we approach a new academic year, we are very pleased to welcome two new faculty members and a NOAA Fellow to our School. Both faculty members are the first to hold new, privately funded, named professorships in the school. We once again express our appreciation to the donors for these positions. Aaron Putman is […]

Abi Bradford, a 2015 graduate of the School of Earth and Climate Sciences, is once again featured – this time in the UMaine Today article “Save the Snow”. The article describes Abi’s background and research experience working with Karl Kreutz on Alaskan glaciers.

George Denton was recently announced as the recipient of the 2015 Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division of the Geological Society of America Distinguished Career Award. George will receive the award at a ceremony at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Baltimore in November, where a fuller citation of George’s many accomplishments […]

Brenda Hall is the lead author on a new paper just published in Nature Geoscience, entitled “Accumulation and marine forcing of ice dynamics in the western Ross Sea during the
last deglaciation”. UMaine faculty and students George Denton, Stephanie Heath, Margaret Jackson, and Tobias Koffman are co-authors. This relatively new journal (established in 2008) has quickly […]

School of Earth and Climate Sciences Professor Karl Kreutz, along with former UMaine graduate students Bess Koffman, Dan Breton, and Dominic Winski and Honors student Eliza Kane, participated in a recently published study of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet divide core. The study reveals that abrupt climate change that began in Greenland spread in ~200 […]

Recent Ph.D. graduate Bess Koffman has been awarded one of five prestigious inaugural postdoctoral fellowships in the newly established Society of Fellows at Dartmouth College. Bess completed her Ph.D. in paleoclimatology, focusing on the record of atmospheric dust preserved in Antarctic ice cores, in 2013, and later that year began an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship at […]

Research Professor Ed Grew was part of an international team of scientists to discover, describe, and report a new sulphate-borate mineral. The new mineral, fontarnauite, is a double salt of sodium and strontium and the eighth sulphate-borate mineral identified so far. It was discovered and characterized by a group of scientists from the Science and […]

At the 2014 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, Professor Peter Koons was honored as one of the 2014 AGU Fellows. AGU Fellows are recognized as those “who have made exceptional scientific contributions and attained acknowledged eminence in the fields of Earth and space sciences. Peter’s citation for fellowship reads: “For […]

We are extremely pleased to announce that Ed Grew, a member of the research faculty in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences (and its predecessors) for 30 years, has established the Edward Sturgis Grew Professorship in Petrology and Mineralogy. This endowment supports the hire a new faculty member whose research interest falls in the […]

Karl Kreutz and recent UMaine Ph.D. student Seth Campbell are featured in a new video released by the NSF program Science Nation. Science Nation is NSF’s online magazine and highlights new discoveries and ongoing research, particularly focusing on the relationship to society. Their work is also featured on PBS NewsHour . Current student Abi Bradford […]

Terry Hughes, recently retired Professor of Earth Sciences and long-time member of the Climate Change Institute, is the focus of an article in Newsweek published June 5. The article describes the current scientific views about the collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet and the consequent significant sea level rise. Back in 1973, Terry was […]

UPDATE (19 January 2015): This story is now featured on NSF’s website. Antarctic Treaty nations approve protection for Stornes Peninsula where U Maine’s Ed Grew discovered new minerals The Antarctic Treaty signatories meeting in Brasilia in May 2014 voted to designate Stornes Peninsula as an Antarctic Specially Protected Area. UMaine Research Professor Ed Grew has […]

The European Journal of Mineralogy (EJM) founded in 1989 is one of the world’s leading international journals in the mineralogical sciences. It is owned by the national mineralogical societies of Germany, Spain, France and Italy and is published under the auspices of the European Mineralogical Union. Papers appearing in the Journal range across all aspects […]

The University of Maine Geological Society (more popularly known as the Geology Club) has elected officers for next academic year. They are: President: Zach Mason Vice President: Bailey Morton Treasurer: Jill Pelto Secretary: Sarah Mullis Congratulations!

The Geology Club of the University of Maine completed an exciting Spring Break trip starting in Las Vegas NV and ending in Phoenix AZ. The trip was organized by the club members and paid for by the Golden and Ross Undergraduate Enrichment Fund, the UM Student Government, the School of Earth and Climate Sciences, and […]

Students from the School of Earth and Climate Sciences joined groups of geology students from the New England region for the New England Intercollegiate Geological Congress (NEIGC) in the Katahdin, Maine, region from October 11-13. NEIGC was established in 1901 for the sole purpose of presenting field trips in areas of current geologic work throughout […]

The Mineralogical Society of America (MSA) announced that Ed Grew has been elected to serve a two-year term on the MSA Council. Together with the officers, the six-membered Council serves as the governing board of MSA, a scientific society founded in 1919 for the advancement of mineralogy, crystallography, geochemistry and petrology, and applications for mineralogy […]

Ph.D. student Deborah Shulman was recently named a Susan J. Hunter Teaching Fellow by the UMaine Graduate School. She will teach ERS330, Mineralogy, in Spring 2014. Deb will be the instructor of record for the upper level course, with mentorship from faculty within the School. The Fellowship program requires that the faculty member who would […]

As reported on the UMaine website, Ed Grew collaborated in the process of describing, classifying, and reporting a new boron nitride mineral. More details are also available in a story from the University of California, Riverside, the home of the lead investigators in the study. ==== Ed Grew, who has a history of discovering minerals […]

School of Earth an Climate Sciences members Ed Grew and Marty Yates are part of a collaborative team that recently was awarded funding from the Carnegie Institute of Washington for a project entitled Isua Tourmaline: A window to Boron Concentrations in the Eoarchean? Grew is leading the project, which follows up on recent work in […]