For nearly 300 years, winter storm activity in Alaska and Northwestern Canada has been intensifying and is currently unmatched in magnitude and duration over the past 1,200 years, according to a new study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. The research, a collaborative effort between Dartmouth University, the University of Maine and the University […]
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A discussion on current weather events and their relation to past, present and future climate trends will be held at 3 p.m. Friday, Sept. 8 in Bryand Global Sciences Center, Room 307. The talk will be led by Sean Birkel and Bradfield Lyon, research professors at the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute. The talk […]
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Mount Desert Islander reported Cindy Isenhour, UMaine professor of anthropology and climate change, and facilitator of the legislature’s Stakeholder Working Group to Address Food Waste in Maine, will participate in a panel discussion following a keynote address by U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree at the College of the Atlantic Sept. 20. Other participants on the panel […]
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The Bangor Daily News spoke with Sean Birkel, Maine’s state climatologist and a research assistant professor at the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, for the article, “How Maine can be in a drought, even during record rainfall.” Birkel said drought conditions can spring up relatively quickly, whereas the trend of increasing precipitation is borne […]
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Jill Pelto, a graduate student in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences at the University of Maine, was included in an Outside Magazine article that featured 10 artists who are turning climate change data into paintings, sculptures and illustrations. Pelto, who is 24 years old, knows that her generation and those that follow are […]
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Maine’s coastline is dotted with more than 2,000 archaeologically documented shell middens and virtually all of them are eroding into the ocean, some quite rapidly, which is putting valuable records of Maine’s cultural and environmental history at risk, says Alice Kelley, a geoarchaeologist at the University of Maine. It is a trend that is likely […]
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The Bangor Daily News published a UMaine Today feature story and video on tick research being conducted at the University of Maine. As the number of ticks and the illnesses they spread rise around the state, UMaine scientists in multiple disciplines are conducting research in an effort to protect residents, animals and the environment. UMaine’s […]
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Marcella Sorg, a forensic anthropologist at the University of Maine, was the focus of the Bangor Daily News feature, “This Maine scientist gets the call when bones are found in the woods.” When hunters or recreationists find what they think are human remains in the Maine woods, Sorg is the person law enforcement officers usually […]
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Paul Mayewski, director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, spoke with the Penobscot Bay Press about climate change, including the Paris Agreement and the Antarctic Peninsula. Mayewski discussed the effects of politics on U.S. climate change action and offered insight into the complex science behind determining humans’ effect on the world’s […]
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Mount Desert Islander reported George Jacobson, professor emeritus of the University of Maine School of Biology and Ecology and the Climate Change Institute, will speak at Garland Farm in Bar Harbor at 4 p.m. July 27. Jacobson served as the state climatologist for several years, according to the article. His presentation will be based on […]
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