School of Earth and Climate Sciences

Kat Allen is an Associate Professor School of Earth and Climate Sciences at the University of Maine, with a Cooperating Appointment at the Climate Change Institute. Kat studies the ocean, […]

12.21.20 Defense Flyer (3)Erik Anderson Defense

GeoLunch  SECS Research Seminar Wednesday - 12:00 pm EST December 9th, 2020 Zoom Link: https://maine.zoom.us/j/91531536473 Dr. Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux “Are All News About Climate / Climate Change: Musings of a State Climatologist"

Dr. Kuheli Dutt Racism, Implicit Bias, & lack of diversity in geoscience

GeoLunch  SECS Research Seminar Wednesday - 12:00 pm EST November 4th, 2020 Zoom Link: https://maine.zoom.us/j/91531536473 Dr. Ananya Mallik “Probing Surface-Interior Mass Exchange Using Nitrogen'

GeoLunch  SECS Research Seminar Wednesday - 12:00 pm EST October 28th, 2020 Zoom Link: https://maine.zoom.us/j/91531536473 Dr. Hendratta Ali “Antropogenic impact: using stable isotopes of DIC in water to probe CO2 degassing from continental to marine environments'”

GeoLunch  Wednesday - 12:00 pm EST October 21st, 2020 Zoom Link: https://maine.zoom.us/j/91531536473 Dr. Kimberly Lau “Anoxia in Ancient Oceans: A window into the Earth System in 'deep time'”

Wednesday - 12:00 pm EST October 14th, 2020 Zoom Link: https://maine.zoom.us/j/91531536473 Dr. Rafael Almeida “The Ins and Outs (and Ups and Downs) of Mountain Ranges.”

Wednesday - 12:00 pm EST October 7th, 2020 Zoom Link: https://maine.zoom.us/j/91531536473   Dr. Sridhar Anandakrishnan “Slip Slidin' Away - Glaciers, Ice Sheets, and Sea Level in a Warming World.”

EARTH AND CLIMATE SCIENCE RESEARCH SEMINAR Wednesday - 12:00 pm EST September 30th, 2020 Zoom Link: https://maine.zoom.us/j/91531536473   Dr. Darryl Reano “Engaging with Indigenous Communities through Geoscience Education Research.”

Wednesday - 12:00 pm EST September 23rd 2020 Zoom Link: https://maine.zoom.us/j/91531536473   Dr. Seth Campbell "The History and Future of Ice in Alaska"

EARTH SCIENCE RESEARCH SEMINAR  Wednesday - 12:00 pm EST September 16th 2020 Zoom Link: https://maine.zoom.us/j/91531536473  Dr. Scott Johnson  “Application of physics-based dynamic fragmentation models for estimating strain rate and breakdown energy in the earthquake source.”

University of Maine School of Earth and Climate Sciences   EARTH SCIENCE RESEARCH SEMINAR  Dr. Christopher Gerbi "A New Chapter (for me): Glacier Rheology" Wednesday - 12:00 pm EST September 9th, 2020 Zoom Link: https://maine.zoom.us/j/91531536473  

Meghan Spoth Holocene Variations in the Southern Hemisphere Westerlies Developed from Lake Records in the Falkland Islands and Maraina Miles Interactions between the land-terminating Walcott and Howchin Glaciers and adjacent Ross Sea ice since the Last Glacial Maximum in the Royal Society Range, Antarctica

Inga Kindstedt Understanding summer temperatures in the North Pacific region      

The UMaine Arctic Initiative, in collaboration with the Office of Research Development, will hold a workshop titled “Strengthening the impact of your Arctic research,” from noon to 1:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 28, in the Bangor Room of Memorial Union. Panelists Laura Millay, research and evaluation coordinator at the Maine Center for Research in STEM Education; Linda […]

Julia Simonson Analysis of the Historical Incidence of Mid-Autumn Wind Storms in New England

Heather Clifford Episodic Saharan dust events to the European Alps over the past 2000 years and Mike McCormick Geochemistry of the Pickett Mountain Deposit

Aaron Chesler, The effect of particle shape on size distribution analysis in the South Pole Ice Core and  Scott Braddock, A look into the recent history of Thwaites Glacier, West […]

STRUCTURE FROM MOTION METHODOLOGY CAPTURES SEASONAL INFLUENCE ON COASTAL BLUFF EROSION AND LANDSLIDE HAZARDS IN CASCO BAY, ME.

Quantifying weathering at the Rio Cupeyes NEON dry forest, Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico

Sulfur: The Final Frontier

Six University of Maine explorers will talk about their experiences participating in the most comprehensive scientific expedition ever conducted on Mount Everest. A free, public panel discussion, “The University of […]

UMaine Arctic Launch Event The University of Maine is an EEO/AA employer, and does not discriminate on the grounds of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, transgender status, gender expression, […]

Melting Icebergs: the other unruly creature in the Arctic

What can englacial stratigraphy tell us about the history of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet?

The Ocean Stored More Respired Carbon during the Last Ice Age

Doug Jerolmack The Secret Life of Pebbles: how the history of Earth and other planets is encoded in pebble shape

Dr. Fidel Costa Interim Director Earth Observatory of Singapore What magmatic processes and time scales drive volcanic eruptions? Thursday, October 24th, 2-3 pm, BGSC 203

Ed Grew   Minerals at the Nanoscale in the Luobusa Ophiolite, Tibet, China: Challenges in Characterizing TiB2, TiSi2, TiP, Ti10(Si,P)7 and Ti11(Si,P)10 Formed from Super-Reduced Mantle-Derived Fluids  

Kirk Maasch An update from UCAR

Brown Bag Seminar  Wednesday - 12:00 noon  October 9, 2019  100 Bryand Global Sciences Center  Andrei Kurbatov A Roadmap for Recovery of the Oldest Ice Core Record from Allan Hills, […]

UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SCHOOL OF EARTH AND CLIMATE SCIENCES   Brown Bag Seminar  Wednesday - 12:00 noon  October 2, 2019  100 Bryand Global Sciences Center  Dom Winski  Tropical Links to […]

Bradfield Lyon   Using a Lagrangian Framework to Study Historical and Projected U.S. Summer Heat Waves

Rheological significance of microscale bridge zones in natural lithospheric materials Friday, September 13th, 2019 11:00 AM Bryand Global Sciences Center Room 100

Microscale Stress Heterogeneities Drive Chemical and Mechanical Evolution of Rocks and Ice

A 2000 year long climate history of Central Asia, based on paleoclimate proxies, weather station records, climate reanalyses and ice core chemical records.

A 2000 Year Detailed Climate Reconstruction Using a South Pole Ice Core

INVESTIGATING CONNECTIONS BETWEEN ICEBERG MELT RATES AND GLACIER DYNAMICS ON THE ANTARCTIC PENINSULA Mariama Dryak Wednesday, May 1, 2019 –  10:00 am 307 Bryand Global Science Center

Kinematics of Turner Glacier's Surge Events from 1980-2017

Tyler Pollock and Michael McCormick Preliminary Lithological and Lithogeochemical Analysis of the Pickett Mountain VMS Deposit, Maine

Dr. Jamie Barnes GeoPRISMS Distinguished Lecturer University of Texas, Austin Tuesday, April 23rd, 12:30-1:30 pm, Room 307 (CCI Conference Room)

Bora Song Damage in Granitic Rocks by Thermal Loading Associated with Mafic Dike Intrusion and Nick Richmond Shaping Landscapes with a Physics-Based Approach to Failure, Flows, and Transport

Steve Bernsen and Clara Deck

Mariama Dryak  An Overview of Spatial Variability in Antarctic Iceberg Melt  And  He Feng  The Characteristics of the Rheological Bridge Zone  

Jeffrey D. Auger Ph.D. Candidate Past, Present, and Future Arctic Climate and Nation/Community Risk Assessment

Hanna Brooks The MAGIC of a Triple Quad And Ian Nesbitt Implications of spatiotemporal variations in sedimentation within previously glaciated lakes

Will Kochtitzky Defense Why Do Glaciers Surge? Understanding the last 8 surges of Donjek Glacier, Yukon Territory, Canada

Dr. Melissa Moore-Driskell University of North Alabama Planes, Boats, Bears, and Undergrads: Adventures in Alaskan Seismic Fieldwork

Erin McConnell Ice Cores and Hydroclimate in the St. Elias Mountains of Yukon, Canada and Jesse Walters Squeezing Sulfur from Oceanic Lithosphere: A Story of Subduction  

James Hodge  Linking Fluid Infiltration and Strain Localization in the Marcy Massif  And Bea Van Dam Thinking at the Margin:  Examining the role of estuary margin watersheds in coastal bacteria pollution vulnerability

  Kate Hruby MS Defense DETERMINING THE INFLUENCE OF LATERAL MARGIN MECHANICAL PROPERTIES ON GLACIAL FLOW

Dr. Brent Minchew Massachusetts Institute of Technology New insights into the mechanics of glacier beds from time-dependent surface velocity fields

Cassie Stirpe Proxy Development in Paleoceanography: The Story of the Mystery Magnesium

Kate Hruby A Year in the Life of Jarvis Glacier  And  Aaron Chesler  20th Century Calibration of South Pole (SP04 and SPICEcore) Dust Physical and Chemical Properties

Kate Hruby  A Year in the Life of Jarvis Glacier  And  Aaron Chesler  20th Century Calibration of South Pole (SP04 and SPICEcore) Dust Physical and Chemical Properties

Nick Richmond Thesis Defense Three-Dimensional Bedrock Channel Evolution with Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics

Andrei Kurbatov Title: Advancements in Cryptotephra Research

Alicia Cruz-Uribe Title:

Bradfield Lyon Title: My Recent Trip to the Arctic

Seth Campbell The Juneau Ice Field Research Program

Chris Gerbi The Long Reach of Microscalestress

Josh Michaels from Elsevier will give a brief demonstration of Geofacets – one of their high-end earth sciences research tools.

Dr. Ed Grew Lithium-200 Years

Honors Thesis DefenseAlexander AudetRecovering Legacy Geological Data into a Geospatial Database Product: An Example From Baja California Norte, México August 27th10-11 AMRoom 100 Bryand Global Sciences Center

Honors Thesis DefenseAlexander AudetRecovering Legacy Geological Data into a Geospatial Database Product: An Example From Baja California Norte, México August 27th10-11 AMRoom 100 Bryand Global Sciences Center

Raymond Kahler THE EFFECTS OF SEASONAL VARIATIONS IN CHEMISTRY AND HYDROLOGY ON THE MICROBIAL COMMUNITY STRUCTURE AND ITS SULFIDE OXIDATION POTENTIAL IN A NATURALLY ACIDIC MAINE STREAM School of Earth and Climate Sciences Thursday, August 23rd, 2018, 1:00 PM Bryand Global Sciences Center 100

Jessica Scheick REMOTE SENSING OF ICEBERGS IN GREENLAND’S FJORDS AND COASTAL WATERS PhD Defense Seminar Wednesday 22 August 2018 at 2:00pm Bryand Global Science Center Rm 100

Won Joon Song Ph.D. Defense “Fault-adjacent Damage at the Base of the Seismogenic Zone and Seismic Anisotropy of Fold Structures”

Special Brown Bag Seminar A Closer Look at Coastal Maine's Moraines: Implications for Ice Sheet Behavior During Retreat

Special Brown Bag Seminar A Closer Look at Coastal Maine's Moraines: Implications for Ice Sheet Behavior During Retreat

RETREAT OF THE ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET IN THE SOUTHERN ROSS EMBAYMENT FROM RECORDS AT AMUNDSEN AND LIV GLACIERS, SOUTHERN TRANSANTARCTIC MOUNTAINS

A GLACIAL HISTORY OF ROBERTS MASSIF, CENTRAL TRANSANTARCTIC MOUNTAINS, ANTARCTICA, USING COSMOGENIC 3HE, 10BE, AND 21NE SURFACE EXPOSURE AGES

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James Hodge,  Quantifying grain-scale stress patterns and magnitudes in deforming Earth materials: getting to the core of the localization problemand Clara Deck, TBA 

Jacque MillerUTILIZINGGROUND-PENETRATING RADAR IN THE DELINEATION AND CULTURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT OFERODING MAINE COASTAL SHELL MIDDENSAndNick WhitemanMeasuring CoastalBluff Erosion in Casco Bay, ME

Aaron Chesler The SouthernHemisphere Westerly Winds and Updates from the South Pole Ice Core Dust Record &Andrew Newcomb  HistoricalInsights into Dams and Hydrologic Regime in the Penobscot River  

Ian Nesbitt, TBA and Efren Gomez, A Groundwater Flow Model for Carraipia Basin (La Guajira - Colombia)

Guleed Ali, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University The fluctuations of Mono Lake, California, during and since the last Ice Age

"Glacial Lake Hitchcock and the Holocene History of the Penobscot River"

NFA117 orientation field trip to Schoodic Institute and other locations.