University of Maine paleoecologist Jacquelyn Gill and her students are working with the University of California to uncover fossils of prehistoric plants and animals preserved in tar pits from the ice age, WVII (Channel 7) reported. “We have a lot of these ice age survivors, things like squirrels and rabbits and coyotes. And those persisted […]
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There are roughly 5,200 officially recognized minerals on planet Earth according to the International Mineralogical Association (IMA). Two of which — Edgrewite and hydroxyledgrewite — are named after University of Maine mineralogist and petrologist Edward Grew. Grew, a research professor in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences, has studied and helped discover new minerals […]
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Catherine Schmitt, communications director for the Maine Sea Grant College Program at the University of Maine, writes in Maine Boats that the climate changes altering life above the Arctic Circle are also influencing conditions along the Maine coast. At last fall’s Arctic Council meeting in Portland, writes Schmitt, scientists gave examples of the connection between […]
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In 1979 and 1980, the late University of Maine archeologist Brian Robinson collected a range of traditional artifacts on a trip through the Amazonian rainforest in Peru. Robinson, who was an associate professor in UMaine’s Department of Anthropology and the Climate Change Institute, died last fall after a battle with pancreatic cancer. Now, visitors to […]
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The Kangerlussuaq region of southwest Greenland is a 3,728-square-mile corridor stretching from the ice sheet to the Labrador Sea. In this area near the top of the world, landscape and ecosystem diversity abounds. Flora and fauna range from microbes in the ice sheet to large herbivores — caribou and musk oxen — living on the […]
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The Portland Press Herald published a feature article on Brenda Hall, a glacial geology professor at the University of Maine, as part of its “Meet” series. The Press Herald interviewed Hall about “her journey from growing up in Standish to being a globe-trotting expert on glacial geology and the stability of ice sheets.” Hall, a […]
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Smithsonian Magazine interviewed Paul Mayewski, director of the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, for a story on the historical role international agreements have played in addressing climate change. In the late 1980s, the Montreal Protocol began the process of closing a hole in the ozone layer caused by ozone-depleting chemicals found in a wide […]
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The Washington Post reported temperatures in the Arctic are 20 degrees warmer than average for this time of year, according to the Climate Reanalyzer website run by the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine. The Sydney Morning Herald also cited the Climate Reanalyzer website in a story on record-setting summer temperatures in the […]
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In many cities around the world, the ancient past and modern present blend seamlessly into a hundreds-of-years long story of continuous urban growth and decline. In Cusco, Peru, the stone walls of the Inca capital city serve as the foundations of 16th century Spanish colonial buildings which currently house modern restaurants and shops. And in […]
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A University of Maine doctoral candidate co-wrote an article that won the International Award for Excellence for The International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses, Volume 8. Kisei Tanaka, who wrote “Climate Change, Conflict, and Moving Borders” with James Lee of American University, is affiliated with the Climate Change Institute and the Ecology and […]
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