Each childhood spring, Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie and her grandmother had a picnic on the day rhododendrons bloomed in her family’s yard in Massachusetts. MacKenzie, now a postdoctoral David H. Smith Conservation Research Fellow at the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, continues to relish “botanizing,” as she calls it. She is one of five emerging […]
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Jill Pelto, a graduate student in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences at the University of Maine, was mentioned in the opinion piece, “Artists engage the science of climate change,” published in the Press Republican of New York. Earth’s changing climate has brought artists working in all media to express in their own way […]
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Sean Birkel, Maine’s state climatologist and a research assistant professor at the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, was a recent guest on NEXT. The weekly radio show and podcast about New England is produced by WNPR in Hartford, Connecticut. In the Jan. 11 episode, “Going to the Well,” Birkel spoke about the difference between […]
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Talks made during the Maine Agricultural Trades Show by University of Maine Cooperative Extension faculty Glen Koehler and Alicyn Smart were the focus of the latest column in the Portland Press Herald “Maine Gardener” series. Koehler, a fruit-tree specialist who also studies climate, spoke about “Farmer Adaptation to Changing Weather.” Koehler used charts, maps and […]
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Science named a study co-led by the University of Maine as one of nine runners-up for the 2017 Breakthrough of the Year. In August, researchers at UMaine, in collaboration with Princeton University, announced the recovery of an Antarctic ice core that contained record-setting ice 2.7 million years old — shattering the previous record by 1.7 […]
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Sharon Tisher, a lecturer in the University of Maine’s School of Economics and Honors College; and Harold Borns, professor emeritus of the Climate Change Institute and the School of Earth and Climate Sciences at UMaine, wrote an opinion piece for the Bangor Daily News titled, “Climate change under Trump: A perfect storm.” Tisher is a […]
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Jacquelyn Gill, a University of Maine paleoecologist, and her research is the focus of the Motherboard article, “This ecologist finds clues to Anthropocene survival in ice age extinctions.” Gill describes herself as “an ice age ecologist in a warming world,” according to the article. As an expert on the Pleistocene era and an advocate for […]
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The Portland Press Herald reported the Maine Department of Marine Resources is questioning the reliability of a new study that predicts a sharp decline in Gulf of Maine lobsters over the next 30 years. The Gulf of Maine Research Institute, University of Maine and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration built a computer model that predicts […]
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Research by Alice Kelley, a geoarchaeologist at the University of Maine, was mentioned in a Sierra magazine article about archaeologists and Native Americans working together to identify culturally important sites. Along the coast of Maine, there are at least 2,000 prehistoric shell middens, according to Kelley. These middens are exposed and mainly unprotected, the article […]
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The Portland Press Herald reported Maine Medical Center Research Institute in Scarborough is partnering with the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute to study how climate change affects deer ticks and Lyme disease. Susan Elias, a disease ecologist at the research institute and a UMaine Ph.D. candidate, said persuasive research connects climate change with the […]
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