Climate Change

Maine Edge, Free Press Preview 4-H Science Saturday Workshop at UMaine

The Maine Edge and The Free Press published a University of Maine news release about an upcoming 4-H Science Saturday workshop on campus. Youth in grades 6–8 will design a container to assist a UMaine Climate Change Institute professor with research on Feb. 14 at the Edward T. Bryand Global Sciences Center. Participants will build a […]

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Minnesota Meteorologist Utilizes Climate Reanalyzer

In his Jan. 12 online edition of the Minnesota-based Star Tribune, meteorologist Paul Douglas used the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer’s Global Forecast System Model. The Climate Reanalyzer indicated the Gopher State would come out of the deep freeze and have several days with temperatures in the 30s. The Climate Reanalyzer also […]

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Carnegie Foundation Selects UMaine for 2015 Community Engagement Classification

The University of Maine is one of 240 colleges and universities in the United States selected to receive the 2015 Community Engagement Classification of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. UMaine and 156 other institutions received reclassification; 83 colleges and universities received first-time classification. In 2008, UMaine and Bates College were the first […]

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Hughes Speaks About Climate Change for Capital Journal Article

Terence Hughes, a professor emeritus of the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute and School of Earth and Climate Sciences, spoke with the Capital Journal of South Dakota for the article, “Glacier scientist: Global warming is good, not bad.” Hughes said it doesn’t matter whether human activity is driving climate change because global warming is […]

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Iberdrola Scholarship Program Accepting Applications to Study Energy, Environment

The Iberdrola USA Foundation, along with Fundación Iberdrola, is accepting scholarship applications for master’s studies in energy and/or the environment at the University of Maine and University of Rochester for the 2015–2016 academic year, according to a press release. The Iberdrola Scholarship Program is open to graduate students who plan to pursue studies in renewable […]

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FEMA News Today Previews Olsen’s Tidal Marsh Research

FEMA News Today ran a University of Maine release about Brian Olsen’s research on the restoration of tidal marshes and birds impacted by Superstorm Sandy. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded Olsen, a UMaine assistant professor of biology and ecology, a $1.4 million grant to conduct a 22-month study on the recovery of birds […]

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Brian Olsen Studies Superstorm Sandy’s Effects on Tidal Marshes to Target Restoration Efforts, Assist Threatened Species

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is monitoring infrastructure repair efforts around Atlantic City, New Jersey, where Superstorm Sandy killed 73 and caused billions of dollars in damage when it barreled ashore a little more than two years ago. In January, Brian Olsen, assistant professor of biology and ecology, will start gauging the restoration of tidal […]

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Working Waterfront Reports on Olsen’s Superstorm Sandy, Tidal Marsh Research

The Working Waterfront published an article on tidal marsh research being conducted by Brian Olsen, an assistant professor of biology and ecology at the University of Maine. In January, Olsen will start gauging the restoration of tidal marshes and birds along the stretch of coastline impacted by the most deadly and destructive storm of the […]

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