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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The Sierra Sun Times of Mariposa, California published a press release from the University of California at Merced, citing a paleontological research project that includes work by Jacquelyn Gill. Gill is an assistant professor of paleoecology and plant ecology with the University of Maine’s School of Biology and Ecology and Climate Change Institute. The project, […]
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Paul Mayewski, director of the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, was a recent guest on Maine Public’s “Maine Calling” radio show. Mayewski spoke about the latest research findings from the Arctic, his insights about the pace and impact of climate change, and the death of fellow climate scientist and UMaine professor Gordon Hamilton.
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A video tribute in memory of University of Maine professor Gordon Hamilton, featuring photos and excerpts from remarks made at his private service Nov. 3, is now available. Hamilton, a professor in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences, and a researcher with the Climate Change Institute, died in a field accident Oct. 22 while […]
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A story in the Portland Press Herald quotes Andrew Thomas, a University of Maine oceanography professor, on what researchers would lose, if President-elect Donald Trump follows through on a plan to eliminate or scale back climate change research at NASA. In interviews last week, the paper reports, Trump’s space policy adviser said NASA, under the […]
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University of Maine climatologist Sean Birkel, and the Climate Reanalyzer website he oversees, were mentioned in a Science World Report piece on the recent, record-setting temperature jump in the Arctic. Sea ice levels at the North Pole are at an all-time low and the temperature in the region is 36 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than normal. […]
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University of Maine climatologist George Denton’s decades of research on the role the Southern Hemisphere plays in climate change were highlighted this week in a story by Medill Reports Chicago, part of the Medill News Service at Northwestern University’s Graduate School of Journalism. “We as humans have reached 7 billion and we are living in […]
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A University of Maine glaciologist discovered icebergs likely contribute more meltwater to Greenland’s fjords than glaciers do, which can slow the melting rate of glaciers and potentially influence ocean circulation and climate. Greenland, the world’s largest island, is almost entirely covered by a permanent ice sheet that has been shrinking due to warming temperatures in […]
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The Washington Post, Discover Magazine, Live Science, Pulse Headlines and News and International Business Times cited data from the Climate Reanalyzer, a website run by research assistant professor Sean Birkel at the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, in recent stories on the 36 Fahrenheit degree jump in pre-winter temperatures at the North Pole. The […]
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The Huffington Post quoted an Associated Press interview with Rebecca Holberton, a professor of biological sciences at the University of Maine, in a recent story on what may be causing puffins to wash ashore dead in Alaska. Researchers say climate change may be behind the recent die-offs. The article goes on to note that other […]
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