Lobster is on a Business Insider list of seven foods that could go extinct due to climate change. The lobster entry cites data from the University of Maine’s Lobster Institute and links to a newspaper story on research by scientists at the Darling Marine Center.
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The Sydney Morning Herald used data from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer website in a recent story on the way polar heat waves are causing ice at both ends of the Earth to retreat. According to the website, the story noted, “the Arctic region as a whole continues to be very […]
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University of Maine archaeologist and associate professor Brian Robinson died Oct. 27 at his home in Orono after a long illness. He was 63. Robinson held joint appointments in the Department of Anthropology and the Climate Change Institute. Prior to joining the UMaine community in 1989 as an assistant research professor, Robinson worked at the […]
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A private memorial service for University of Maine Professor Gordon S. Hamilton will be held Nov. 3, 3–5 p.m., at Buchanan Alumni House. At the request of the family, the service is by invitation only. A video tribute to Dr. Hamilton is expected to be released later in November. A memorial fund in Dr. Hamilton’s […]
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The BBC reported on Gordon Hamilton’s strong ties to his native Scotland in a story on the climate scientist’s death in Antarctica. Hamilton was born in Dundee, Scotland’s fourth-largest city. A statement from the scientist’s family, quoted in the BBC piece, noted that Hamilton’s interest in geography began while he was attending school in the […]
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The New York Times remembered the life and work of University of Maine climate scientist Gordon Hamilton, after his death in a snowmobile accident in Antarctica. In an appreciation, published in the newspaper’s Dot Earth blog, science writer Andrew C. Revkin wrote, “In probing the fast-changing ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland, Gordon Hamilton of […]
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Media across the state, country and world reported on the death of University of Maine climate scientist Gordon Hamilton, who was killed in Antarctica on Saturday, when the snowmobile he was riding fell into a 100-foot crevasse. The New York Times, The Washington Post, Daily Mail, Bangor Daily News, Portland Press Herald, New Scientist, Men’s […]
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Gordon Hamilton, a University of Maine 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 conducting research in Antarctica. He was 50. Hamilton, a physical glaciologist, was working on White Island in the Ross Archipelago in Antarctica, an area […]
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The first half of October 2016 was likely the warmest across the Arctic for this time of year since at least 1948, says Maine’s state climatologist. In the Arctic — 65–90 degrees north latitude — on Oct. 7, 2016, the mean daily temperature averaged a balmy minus 3.5 C (25.7 F), a value that’s 6.6 […]
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Students in the University of Maine Marine Sciences Club are partnering with area schoolchildren to enter the 2016 Atlantic Miniboat Regatta with a nearly 5-foot unmanned sailboat equipped with GPS to track its voyage to Europe by way of the ocean currents. The regatta is organized by Educational Passages, a Belfast, Maine-based program that teaches […]
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