Climate Change

WABI reports on new student-produced journal featuring conservation photography

WABI (Channel 5) reported on the photography featured in the inaugural edition of “Spire,” an online journal of conservation and sustainability based at the University of Maine. The student-produced journal seeks to promote awareness-raising dialogue to unite Maine communities to effect positive environmental change. “How do we engage with these issues of conserving of the […]

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Island Ad-Vantages reports on Deer Isle graduate student’s research fellowship

Island Ad-Vantages reported University of Maine student Anne “Ani” St. Amand of Deer Isle has been awarded a graduate research fellowship because of her demonstrated potential for significant achievement in STEM fields. The three-year National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships are awarded to promote innovation, transformative scientific breakthroughs and economic growth in the U.S. St. […]

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Dan Churchill to receive Dan Sandweiss Graduate Student Advocacy Award

The University of Maine Graduate Student Government has announced this year’s winner of the Dan Sandweiss Graduate Student Advocacy Award, which is given to a member of the UMaine community who has shown dedication and service to graduate students. This year, the GSG has awarded the honor to Dan Churchill. Churchill, who earned a bachelor’s […]

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Enderlin to discuss Greenland ice sheet, Mount Desert Islander reports

Mount Desert Islander reported Ellyn Enderlin, a research assistant professor at the University of Maine Climate Change Institute and School of Earth and Climate Sciences, will speak in Bar Harbor on May 5. Enderlin will discuss the drastic changes to the Earth’s oceans as a result of the melt of the Greenland ice sheet. Her […]

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Climate change directory created to connect public with experts, information

Ever wonder if there’s a journalism course at the University of Maine that incorporates climate science reporting? Who would be an informative speaker to talk about long-term watershed management, or changes in the lobster industry related to climate impacts, or reducing climate-related effects with community infrastructure improvements? Answers to these questions and many more can […]

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Student sustainability journal launch celebration May 4 at Hudson Museum

The inaugural edition of “Spire,” an online journal of conservation and sustainability based at the University of Maine, will be launched Thursday, May 4. A public celebration with food and beverages will mark the occasion 6–8 p.m. May 4 in the Hudson Museum at the Collins Center for the Arts. The Maine Woods National Park […]

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Boss speaks with Scientific American about importance of NASA mission

Emmanuel Boss, a professor of oceanography at the University of Maine, spoke with Scientific American for an article about four climate-related NASA satellite missions that face possible elimination under the budget proposed by President Donald Trump’s administration. Boss is the science team lead of the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud and ocean Ecosystem (PACE) project, one of […]

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CBS News speaks with Mayewski about water found streaming across Antarctica

Paul Mayewski, director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, was quoted in a CBS News report about a recent Columbia University study that found water is gushing across Antarctica. The researchers found significant drainage of meltwater flowing across the continent’s ice sheets during summer in Antarctica. Until now, these streams of […]

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Media cover March for Science on campus

Maine Public, Bangor Daily News, WABI (Channel 5) and WVII (Channel 7) reported on a March for Science held at the University of Maine. Similar events took place in Portland, Machias and Sanford, which were among the 600 communities in the United States and abroad that held pro-science rallies in conjunction with the national March […]

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