Pacific Cod as Paleothermometers
Prehistoric ear stones of Pacific cod reveal fluctuations in ocean temperatures during the Little Ice Age.
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Holocene Warming Regional
Research confirms regional — not global — climate change in New Zealand and European glaciers during the preindustrial Holocene.
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Loon Lakes
Research explores how lakes affected by climate change could impact distributions of the iconic northern birds.
Read moreClimate Change Research and Measuring the Amount of Ice in the Alaska Range
Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of blog posts from UMaine’s Climate Change Institute, which is currently conducting fieldwork in the Alaska Range. Seth Campbell, a University of Maine graduate student pursuing his Ph.D. through UMaine’s Climate Change Institute and Department of Earth Sciences, is getting ready to lead an expedition in […]
Read moreNew Web Tool Tells People About the Health of Their Community
Just in time for Earth Day, anyone in the U.S. can see important environmental factors easily and instantly Orono, Maine, April 12, 2012 – With 10Green, a new, interactive web tool (10Green.org) you can get a comprehensive assessment of the health of your local environment with just a few keystrokes. Just enter your zip code […]
Read moreSacramento Bee Notes Climate Change Institute Web Tool
California’s Sacramento Bee newspaper carried a news release about the new “10Green” interactive web tool designed by the University of Maine Climate Change Institute to provide 10 air quality measures of pollutants such as carbon monoxide, large and small particulates, ozone, sulfur dioxide and heavy metals. Institute Director Paul Mayewski said in an interview that […]
Read moreClimate Change Research Mentioned in Story on Ticks
A Portland Press Herald report on the outlook for ticks this spring included a reference to UMaine Climate Change Institute research. Although reported cases of Lyme disease in Aroostook County are low, the article said, the Maine Medical Center’s Vector-borne Disease Laboratory in South Portland has used a 2011 model by the Climate Change Institute […]
Read moreChilean Expedition Featured in Newspaper
A recent expedition to Chile by Paul Mayewski, director of UMaine’s Climate Change Institute, and a team of other UMaine scientists, was featured in the Bangor Daily News. The article noted the group drilled ice cores in a crater inside an active volcano. Mayewski told the BDN the region is important because the glaciers there […]
Read moreHamilton Quoted in Boston Herald
Gordon Hamilton, an associate professor in UMaine’s Climate Change Institute, was quoted in a Boston Herald story about the possible reasons behind the region’s unseasonably warm weather. Hamilton said although climatic phenomenon are partly to blame for the current jet stream trajectory and warm air flow, the bigger cause of the current weather pattern is […]
Read moreCore Meltdown: Blog Seven
Click here to see all Climate Change blog entries. With the ice cores safely on their way back to Maine, we are making the necessary preparations for their processing and analysis. The extraction of ice from the glaciers is only part of the story; the next chapter begins in the freezer at UMaine’s Climate Change […]
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