Climate Change Institute art exhibit to be displayed at Hutchinson Center

UMaine Alert

Posted: April 19, 2024 - 1:32 PM

At approximately 9:24 a.m. on Friday, April 19, a University of Maine graduate student was struck by a university vehicle on Long Road at the University of Maine campus in Orono. The student reports that they are at a local hospital with minor injuries.

Emergency services, including the Orono Fire Department, University Volunteer Ambulance Corps, University of Maine Police Department, Orono Police Department and Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office responded to the scene.

The university vehicle involved in the incident was a Chevrolet Express van. It was being operated by a university employee.

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The scene has been cleared and Long Road is now accessible. An investigation is being conducted by the University of Maine Police Department with assistance from the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office Crash Reconstruction Unit. Any witnesses to the incident are encouraged to contact Lt. Noel Santiago at noel.santiago@maine.edu.

Ice cave in Peru — Photo by Jamie Haverkamp

June 7, 2017 Arts, Climate Change, Outreach, Research, Signature and Emerging Areas

“The Art of Climate Science,” a new exhibit of photography and artwork illustrating the diverse research activities of students, faculty and staff of the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, will be on display June 16–Sept. 29 at UMaine’s Hutchinson Center in Belfast.

An opening reception featuring many of the participating researcher-artists will be held 4:30–7 p.m. June 16. The exhibition and reception in the H. Allen and Sally Fernald Art Gallery are free and open to the public.

“The Art of Climate Science” features 88 photographs and works of art by CCI faculty, staff and students that capture the diverse landscapes, environments and methods researchers use to understand the past, current and future of Earth’s climate system.

“The Climate Change Institute has conducted research throughout the most remote reaches of the planet, from the poles to the highest mountains, and of course throughout Maine,” says Paul Mayewski, CCI director. “The artwork in this exhibit provides examples of the landscapes that shape CCI’s research world.”

The photos, sketches and paintings offer unique glimpses into what it looks like to do archaeology in the high altitude Andes of Peru, drill ice in Antarctica or Alaska, or to search for the microscopic heralds of climatic change in the remote lakes of Greenland.

Jill Pelto, a graduate student in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences who often incorporates climate data in her paintings and has received national recognition for her climate science-based artwork, is showing a selection of her pieces.

“Climate science involves collecting and deconstructing samples to reconstruct the past, and this is truly an art form in itself,” Pelto says. “But behind the data and the papers, there are the photographs of the places the researchers have traveled, the sketches they have made, and the stories of the work it has taken to understand Earth’s changing climate.”

The exhibit also includes work of CCI Ph.D. candidate Mariusz Potocki, an award-winning photographer whose photos have been featured by National Geographic. Many of Potocki’s photographs document his travels and research throughout South America and Antarctica.

For more information or to request a disability accommodation, call Nancy Bergerson at 338.8049.