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World Climate Interactive Negotiation Simulations to be held at Maine schools in October

University of Maine graduate students are partnering with schools across Maine to host World Climate Interactive Negotiation Simulation (WCS) activities. The simulation activity was developed by the nongovernmental organization Climate Interactive and involves a role play in which participants act as country delegates and work together to negotiate a global climate agreement. The simulation emulates […]

Business Insider, Broadway World report Gill featured in ‘Let Science Speak’ documentary series

Business Insider and Broadway World reported the short documentary series “Let Science Speak” premiered Sept. 20 during the Tribeca TV Festival. The six-part series aims to inform viewers about the importance of science, and to humanize scientists and show how their work is connected to relatable personal values like innovation and civic duty, the articles […]

New York Times cites More in article on Europe’s past frozen in Swiss ice

Alexander More, a historian and climate scientist at Harvard University and the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, was quoted in the New York Times article, “Europe’s triumphs and troubles are written in Swiss ice.” As plague swept through Europe in the mid-1300s, wiping out more than a third of the region’s population, […]

Annual Simpson Lecture to focus on climatic, cultural history of El Niño in Peru

The climatic and cultural history of El Niño in Ancient Peru will be the focus of the 17th annual Geddes W. Simpson Lecture at the University of Maine on Sept. 19. Daniel Sandweiss, a UMaine professor of anthropology and climate studies, will give a lecture titled “Climate, Catastrophe, Collapse? Using Climatic and Cultural History to […]

Seacoast Online reports on lecture by Sockalexis

Seacoast Online reported on a presentation by Chris Sockalexis, a master’s student in quaternary and climate studies at the University of Maine. Sockalexis, who also is the historic preservation officer for the Penobscot Nation, gave the presentation “12,000 years in Maine” about the long history of indigenous people of Maine at Wells Reserve at Laudholm […]

BDN quotes Birkel in article on early fall foliage

The Bangor Daily News quoted Sean Birkel, Maine’s state climatologist and a research assistant professor at the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, in the article, “Maine’s fall foliage is popping up early this year.” Some trees in Maine are already changing color, which could be the result of drought putting the trees under stress, […]

Jacobson to speak at Cape Cod gardening forum, The Enterprise reports

The Falmouth Enterprise reports George Jacobson, a professor emeritus of biology, ecology and climate change at the University of Maine, will speak at a fall gardening forum in Cape Cod. The Master Gardener Association of Cape Cod will host the event at the Harwich Community Center in Harwich, Massachusetts from 9 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. […]

WVII quotes Fernandez in report on citizens’ hearing

WVII (Channel 7) quoted Ivan Fernandez, a professor of soil science and forest resources and a cooperating professor in the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, in an report on a citizens’ hearing about air quality. The hearing, “Maine Speaks on Climate and Cars,” was held by the Natural Resources Council of Maine […]

Birkel quoted in BDN opinion piece on heat waves, climate change

A Bangor Daily News opinion piece on heat waves quoted Sean Birkel, a research professor at the University of Maine Climate Change Institute and the Maine state climatologist. Heat waves across the globe have become the new normal. Half of the warmest years on record have occurred in Caribou since 2000 and in Portland since […]

BDN interviews Elias for article on invasive Japanese barberry, ticks

The Bangor Daily News interviewed Susan Elias, a vector ecologist at the University of Maine Climate Change Institute and a research associate at the Lyme and Vector-Borne Disease Laboratory at the Maine Medical Center Research Institute, for an article about how the invasive Japanese barberry bush helps ticks survive in Maine. Barberry, which was introduced […]

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