Graduate Student Opportunities:
We have a Fall 2025 opening for a graduate student at the MS level. The student will conduct research on the characteristics and age of subglacial meltwater landforms in the Transantarctic Mountains of Antarctica as part of a project on the past thickness of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. This project does not involve field work, but rather is based on remote sensing, satellite image interpretation, and GIS analysis. Experience in GIS analysis is key. Experience identifying and mapping landforms from imagery is a plus. This position is supported by a research assistantship and includes a tuition waiver. If interested, contact Dr. Brenda Hall (BrendaH@maine.edu).
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- Graduate Position Available (MS)We have a Fall 2025 opening for a graduate student at the MS level. The student will conduct research on the characteristics and age of subglacial meltwater landforms in the Transantarctic Mountains of Antarctica as part of a project on the past thickness of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. This project does not involve field work, but rather is based on remote sensing, satellite image interpretation, and GIS analysis. Experience in GIS analysis is key. Experience identifying and mapping landforms from imagery is a plus. This position is supported by a research assistantship and includes a tuition waiver. If interested, contact Dr. Brenda Hall (BrendaH@maine.edu).
- TV interviews and articles about Maraina Miles’ photo exhibit from a research expedition to Tierra del Fuego: The 207 tv interview: https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/207/ice-age-climate-change-maraina-miles-chile-geology/97-f134d8af-71f3-43fd-8c6d-1f75264dde5b. UMaine News: https://umaine.edu/news/blog/2024/06/25/graduate-student-documents-chilean-research-voyage-with-photography/
- New paper out: “History of the Antarctic Ice Sheet in the McMurdo Sound region at and since the Last Glacial Maximum: Evidence from Miers Valley” https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108787
- Congratulations to Meghan Spoth for receiving the 2024 Limnogeology Division Kerry Kelts Award from the GSA Limnogeology Division!
- New paper out “Tracking the southern hemisphere westerlies during and since the last glacial maximum with multiproxy lake record s from the Falkland Island s (52 °S )” in Quaternary Science Reviews: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108135
- Congratulations to Scott Braddock for a successful PhD defense!
- New paper out on the interactions between local glaciers and the adjacent grounded Ross Sea ice in the Royal Society Range, Antarctica:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108591
- April, 2024: Dr. Aaron Putnam, graduate students Tricia Hall, Katie Westbrook, and Zander Roman returned from months of fieldwork in the Southern Alps of New Zealand where they collected samples from boulders for cosmogenic surface exposure age dating.
- April, 2024: Dr. Brenda Hall, graduate students Sera Thomas, Meghan Spoth and Maraina Miles just returned from a second season in Tierra del Fuego, Chile, along with colleagues from the University of Cincinnati and the Universidad de Magallanes and a science journalism student from Northwestern University. They collected sediment cores from bogs and samples from boulders for cosmogenic exposure age dating.
- Congratulations to Peter Strand for a successful PhD defense!
- Congratulations to PhD student Scott Braddock who received outstanding graduate student award and PhD student Peter Strand who received the outstanding graduate research award in the College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture.
- Brenda Hall, graduate students Meghan Spoth and Maraina Miles and undergraduate Eva Griffiths spent a month on a sailboat in the Beagle Channel, southern Chile, along with colleagues from the University of Cincinnati and the Universidad de Magallanes and a science journalism student from Northwestern University. They were collecting data to help answer questions about the cause of the last ice-age termination. Stay tuned for a larger report on the field season soon!
- Former student Tess Walther, along with Brenda Hall, George Denton, and Chris Hendy (University of Waikato, NZ) just had a paper accepted in Quaternary Science Advances concerning Antarctic glacial history. This paper stems from Tess’s MS degree. Congratulations Tess!
- Current student PhD Meghan Spoth, along with Brenda Hall and colleagues at the University of Cincinnati and the South Atlantic Environmental Research Institute just had a paper accepted in Quaternary Science Reviews concerning shifts in the southern hemisphere westerlies since the last ice age. Nice job Meghan!
- New paper out, led by collaborators at NUI Galway, including graduate student Adrienne Foreman and UM alum Gordon Bromley. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2022.110901
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