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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The Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer was included in an online Discover Magazine blog about smoke from Russian wildfires blowing 3,000 miles east out over the Pacific Ocean. A Climate Reanalyzer graph included with the blog displays Siberia’s long-term upward trend in average temperatures near the surface.
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The Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine was mentioned in an article in the Alaska Dispatch News about economic opportunities and Maine’s stake in Arctic policy in the face of ice-free shipping lanes in the Arctic. Dana Eidsness, director of the Maine North Atlantic Development Office, said the CCI has been undertaking glacial […]
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Paul Mayewski, director of the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute (CCI), participated in the opening panel discussion of the Maine-Arctic Forum held in Portland on Oct. 3. The Maine-Arctic Forum coincided with the intergovernmental Senior Arctic Officials Meeting of the Arctic Council being held in Maine throughout the remainder of the week. The panel […]
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