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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Climate change and its impact on Maine will be the focus of an address by U.S. Sen. Angus King when he gives the Senator Margaret Chase Smith Public Affairs Lecture at the University of Maine Nov. 10. King’s address, “Maine and Climate Change: The View from Greenland” begins at 3:30 p.m., in the Collins Center […]
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Aaron Putnam was featured in a Warm Regards Podcast about his recent research expedition in Mongolia. The assistant professor with the University of Maine Climate Change Institute searched for clues in the Altai Mountains about what caused the Earth to lurch out of the last ice age about 20,000 years ago. Warm Regards is a […]
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Research Assistant Professor Sean Birkel with UMaine’s Climate Change Institute, told the Bangor Daily News that climate change is projected to increase, not decrease, the annual average rainfall in Maine and other Northeastern region states.
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Many thousands of years ago, as the world slowly began to thaw at the end of the last ice age, the landscapes of southern Peru were quite different than the ones University of Maine’s Gordon Bromley finds himself wandering about these days. Large domes of ice, blanketing the high and jagged peaks of ancient cordilleras, […]
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