Climate Change Science Day for High School Students Friday

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571

ORONO — Some 140 Maine high school students and adult educators will visit the University of Maine on Friday April 10 to learn more about climate change science.  The students will engage in hands-on activities and interact with UMaine faculty members and graduate student scientists. The event runs from 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m. at three UMaine locations: Bryand Global Science Center, Sawyer Environmental Research Center and South Stevens Hall. 

Climate Change Science Day is sponsored by UMaine’s Climate ChangeInstitute, Dept. of Anthropology and Dept. of Earth Sciences.

Tour stops will include the following:

• UMaine’s archaeology lab in South Stevens Hall, where students will examine and analyze stone tools and pottery from prehistoric Maine and other locations

• UMaine’s zooarchaeology lab, also in South Stevens Hall, where visitors will examine human skeletal remains and animal bone from archaeological and reference samples

• The earth sciences sediment core laboratory in Bryand, where scientists will show the record of rising sea level and environmental change in cores from Penobscot Bay

• The paleoecology laboratory in Sawyer, where students willexamine fossils from lakes that are used to reconstruct environmental change

 • Ice core chemistry assessment facilities at Sawyer, where visitors will see the labs that measure chemistry used to reconstruct past climates; they will also have the opportunity to examine sections of ice collected from Antarctica

• Remote sensing facilities in Bryand, where scientists will show visitors the tools used to study glaciers from space

For more information, contact: Shelley Palmer at 581-1894 (shelley.palmer@umit.maine.edu)