Alaska Dispatch News posted a map from the Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer website in an article about a deep freeze predicted to descend on North America, Europe and Asia due to record-high temperatures across the Arctic. “Think of it like a seesaw,” said Matt Rogers, president of Commodity Weather Group in Bethesda, Maryland. When […]
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A CBS News 2016 review piece about the warming of the planet, including the dramatic transformation in the Arctic, quoted the director of the University of Maine Climate Change Institute “For the people in the Arctic, no one has to tell them an abrupt climate change has hit,” Paul Mayewski said in a recent interview […]
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Jill Pelto’s watercolor “Decline in Glacier Mass Balance” is the cover art for the Mainebiz 2017 Book of Lists, published Dec. 26. Pelto is a graduate student in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences at the University of Maine, where she graduated in December 2015 with bachelor degrees in studio art and Earth science. […]
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CBS News spoke with Paul Mayewski, director of the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, about the recent rise in temperatures at the North Pole. The Arctic has seen warmer temperatures, lower levels of sea ice and more open water in recent years. “High up into the Arctic and close to the North Pole, the […]
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Yale Climate Connections published an article on Jill Pelto, a graduate student in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences at the University of Maine. Pelto creates environmental artwork as a way to communicate scientific data related to climate change. Pelto grew up immersed in nature and always loved to make art, according to the […]
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Jessica Scheick, a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences and the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, was invited to give the keynote address at the 2016 Maine Robotics EXPO and First Lego League State Championships opening ceremony in Augusta on Dec. 10. During her opening remarks, Scheick, speaking […]
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Medill News Service reported on the 2016 Comer Abrupt Climate Change Conference in Chicago, where Aaron Putnam, an assistant professor of Earth sciences with the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, gave a presentation on his research in Mongolia’s Altai Mountains. Putnam and a team of researchers spent six weeks collecting boulder samples in the […]
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Jacquelyn Gill, a paleoecologist at the University of Maine, spoke with The Christian Science Monitor for a report about how drought has killed many young Christmas trees on farms across New England. As a result, tree farmers are adapting the varieties they grow and some are considering investments in drip irrigation systems, according to the […]
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Dulcinea Groff, a Ph.D. candidate with the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, spoke with Utah Public Radio for a story about researchers using crowdfunding to raise money to support their work. “Two years ago we started a campaign on the same platform — experiment.com — and we raised about $11,000, in a month,” Groff […]
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University of Maine paleoecologist and plant ecologist Jacquelyn Gill told Business Insider that NASA data on Earth’s climate provides a critical baseline of comparison, as she and other researchers study climate change over millions of years. Last month, Bob Walker, an adviser to President-elect Donald Trump, told The Guardian newspaper that the incoming administration was […]
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