The Climate Change Adaptation and Sustainability Conference that was hosted by the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute in October was mentioned in a Huffington Post blog post by Peter Neill, director of the World Ocean Observatory. In the article, “The externalities of climate change,” Neill wrote about the conference, which he attended along with […]
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The Associated Press reported Daniel Sandweiss, an archaeologist at the University of Maine, was named a Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for his contributions to the field. Alan Leshner, CEO and executive publisher of Science, says Sandweiss’ notable discoveries include his “pioneering interdisciplinary studies of early colonization of South […]
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Hal Borns’ interactive Maine Ice Age Trail Map and Guide: Down East was featured in a Maine Sunday Telegram piece. Borns, professor emeritus with the University of Maine Climate Change Institute and School of Earth and Climate Sciences, created the guide to document interesting landscape features — including Cadillac Mountain and Somes Sound fjord — […]
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An international group dedicated to advancing science for the benefit of all people is honoring Daniel H. Sandweiss, an archaeologist at the University of Maine. The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) elected Sandweiss a Fellow for his distinguished contributions to archaeology. Alan Leshner, CEO and executive publisher of Science, says Sandweiss’ notable […]
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University of Maine data was mentioned in the USA Today report, “Snow way! U.S. ‘hammered’ by freak freeze, whiteout.” According to UMaine, the eastern half of North America is the only part of the Northern Hemisphere that’s experiencing dramatically below-average, frigid temperatures, the report states. Overall, the hemisphere is about 1.35 degrees warmer than average […]
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PBS NewsHour reported on research by University of Maine paleoclimatologist Karl Kreutz in a video titled “Scientists read layers of Alaska’s ice and snow to track climate change.” With support from the National Science Foundation, Kreutz and his team are working to reconstruct the climate history of the area around Alaska’s Denali National Park over […]
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The Business Insider article, “It’s warmer in Alaska than in Texas right now,” featured maps produced by the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute. The maps, which were created using CCI’s Climate Reanalyzer, showed average temperatures across North America today and how much those temperatures differ from their overall average levels. According to one of […]
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The University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute was mentioned in a Current article about the increase of Lyme disease and ticks in Maine. According to the article, Dr. Peter Rand, the senior investigator at the Vector-borne Disease Laboratory in Scarborough who established the Maine Lyme Disease Research Lab, is working with CCI to provide data […]
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WVII (Channel 7) reported three University of Maine researchers will travel to the Falkland Islands to learn more about the region’s biodiversity and what can be done to preserve it. Jacquelyn Gill, an assistant professor of paleoecology and plant ecology, will travel with two graduate students — Kit Hamley and Dulcinea Groff. “We are very […]
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The Verge and The Washington Post quoted Brian Robinson, a professor of anthropology and quaternary and climate studies at the University of Maine, for articles about scientists discovering an 11,500-year-old grave of infants and a late-term fetus in Alaska. Robinson, who wasn’t involved in the study, said child burials are exceedingly rare and this discovery […]
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