Climate Change Science Day for High School Students Thursday

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571

ORONO — Some 170 Maine high school and middle school students will visit the University of Maine on Thursday May 1 to learn more about climate change science. The students will engage in hands-on activities and interact with UMaine faculty and graduate student scientists. The event runs from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at three UMaine locations: Bryand Global Science Center, Sawyer Environmental Research Center and South Stevens Hall. Bryand and Sawyer are next to each other at the south end of campus.

Titled “Ice, Stones, Bones and Bugs: Unraveling the Secrets of Climate Change,” the workshops are sponsored by UMaine’s Climate Change Institute, Dept. of Anthropology and Dept. of Earth Sciences.

Tour stops will include the following: