Sean Birkel, Maine’s state climatologist and a research assistant professor at the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, spoke with the Bangor Daily News for the article, “Repeat of ice storm of ’98 unlikely, not impossible.” The BDN reported that the ice storm that devastated Maine 20 years ago was caused by an unusual mix […]
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The Associated Press cited a University of Maine Climate Change Institute analysis in a report looking at what is causing the Arctic blast that has moved south to affect central and eastern United States. Super cold air is normally locked up in the Arctic in the polar vortex, which is a gigantic circular weather pattern […]
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Jacquelyn Gill, a University of Maine paleoecologist, is one of the finalists for the Portland Press Herald’s 2017 Mainers of the Year. She helped start a conversation on Twitter that evolved into the March for Science on Earth Day 2017. “I’ve felt catapulted by this national energy around supporting science,” Gill told the Portland Press […]
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Jacquelyn Gill, an assistant professor of terrestrial paleoecology at the University of Maine, was named one of six finalists for Portland Press Herald’s “2017 Mainers of the Year.” According to the Press Herald, the finalists made impacts this year that reverberated outside the state. Gill got the idea for the March for Science as she […]
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The University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer was featured in a Vox article about North America’s recent cold weather. Temperatures on the East Coast have been in the teens and 20s, and temperatures in the Midwest have been hovering near zero Fahrenheit, according to the article. Temperatures are expected to continue to drop […]
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Kimberley Miner, an Earth and climate scientist and graduate student at the University of Maine, spoke with WLBZ (Channel 2) about how to keep warm in cold temperatures. Miner studies climate change by researching glaciers and has been to places including Antarctica and Alaska, according to the report. Her gear has kept her warm in […]
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Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie, a postdoctoral David H. Smith Conservation Research Fellow at the University of Maine, wrote an opinion piece for the Bangor Daily News titled, “National parks belong to Americans. They should remain accessible to all.” MacKenzie studies alpine and subalpine plant communities, climate change and conservation across New England.
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Reuters, Daily Mail, The Washington Post, Newsweek, The Weather Channel, VICE News, Scientific American, The Straits Times and Business Day reported on a new study conducted by researchers from Dartmouth College, the University of Maine and the University of New Hampshire. The study, which was published in the journal Scientific Reports, found snowfalls atop an […]
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Farmers are invited to a panel discussion and networking event about farming in a new weather reality 1:50–4 p.m. Jan. 9 in the Hancock Room of the Augusta Civic Center, 76 Community Drive. The session will open with a panel of experienced Maine crop and livestock farmers who will discuss how changes in weather patterns […]
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The Inside Science article, “Melting glaciers release pollutants frozen decades ago,” focuses on research presented by Kimberley Miner, an earth and climate scientist and graduate student at the University of Maine, at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in New Orleans. Miner’s analysis suggests that people who live in the shadow of melting glaciers […]
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