Paul Mayewski, director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, was quoted in a CBS News article about a new report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association. The report states global sea level rise is unfolding at a stunning pace, and over the coming decades, some parts of the nation’s coastline […]
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For tens of thousands of years, the warm, sticky natural asphalt that occasionally bubbled to the Earth’s surface in the area now called Los Angeles was a death sentence for some ice age animals. Woolly mammoths, camels, rabbits, horses, bison, sloths, rodents, snails, turtles, birds and saber-toothed cats perished after becoming mired in the liquid […]
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The Herring Gut Learning Center, a nonprofit marine education center in Port Clyde, has selected University of Maine Ph.D. candidate Samuel Belknap as its next executive director. Belknap is currently pursuing a doctorate in anthropology and environmental policy through Adaptation to Abrupt Climate Change, a National Science Foundation IGERT fellowship program. A native of Midcoast […]
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Long-term changes in weather are affecting Maine agriculture, bringing both risks and potential opportunities for farmers in the state. At the University of Maine, faculty initiated the Maine Climate and Agriculture Network to improve coordination among faculty, staff and students on the subject. The network recently published a fact sheet that outlines observations of how […]
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Mount Desert Islander reported the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor will host a free screening of four films produced by The Island Institute at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 19. The future of fisheries and the changing ocean in the Gulf of Maine and elsewhere are explored in the films, according to the article. […]
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At the Maine Agricultural Trades Show, the Kennebec Journal reported several University of Maine faculty members spoke with farmers about the likelihood of unpredictable weather patterns in the coming years and what they can do to be prepared. “We’re going to have extreme weather conditions one way or the other,” said Richard Kersbergen, a forage […]
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University of Maine Ph.D. candidate Kristine Hoffmann’s research on blue-spotted salamanders could lead to a greater understanding of how climate change is impacting northern ecosystems, reports Zocalo Public Square. Since 2012, Hoffmann has been studying how urbanization is effecting vernal pools and blue-spotted salamanders in Maine. In her work, Hoffmann has trapped, measured and released […]
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University of Maine climate scientist Gordon Hamilton was included in several media reports on notable Mainers who passed away in 2016. The Associated Press, Portland Press Herald and Maine Public reported on the deaths. The professor in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences and researcher with the Climate Change Institute died in a field […]
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The Christian Science Monitor interviewed Paul Mayewski, director of the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, for a story on the increase in Arctic Ocean shipping and the economic opportunities it presents for Maine. Rising temperatures in the Arctic, due to climate change, have led to a steady loss of summer sea ice, making waters […]
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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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