Click here to see all Climate Change blog entries. Yesterday afternoon we reached our second camp site, Agua Azul or Blue Water. To get there we hiked about six miles along the beautiful Colorado Valley. We camped on an ancient Tupungatito lava flow and had our first glimpse of our route up to the drill site for […]
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Click here to see all Climate Change blog entries. Editor’s note: A team of scientists from the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute is currently on an expedition in Chilé, traveling to the Tupungatito Glacier, located in a volcanic crater at an elevation of 19,000 feet in the Andes Mountains. This blog post is the […]
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Several media outlets ran the announcement that a group of 19 scientists, including UMaine’s Jasmine Saros, contributed to a study that found a rise in nitrogen levels in remote lakes was likely due to human activity. The Vancouver Sun had a story about the announcement, which came from the University of Washington and was published […]
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University of Maine ecologist Jasmine Saros provided research for a groundbreaking finding about the long-term effects of pollution published in the Dec. 16 issue of the journal Science.
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Maine’s beech trees have been under attack for decades by a disease that typically shows up as disfiguring cankers on a tree species that is supposed to have a smooth and silvery bark. Affected trees grow slowly and can survive for years. Unfortunately, the diseased trees produce few beechnuts, a loss of an important food source […]
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The website Environmental Research Web posted information about research done by UMaine engineer Shaleen Jain and a former UMaine graduate student. Jain, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, researched the the impact of past typhoons on the Korean peninsula, providing climate risk analysis to help officials make informed decisions about how and there […]
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Wednesday’s unseasonably warm temperature prompted a report in the Lewiston Sun Journal that included an interview with Sean Birkel, a post-doctoral research associate at UMaine’s Climate Change Institute. Birkel said one spell of above- or below-normal weather is not necessarily a symptom of climate change, but historical temperatures show Maine is warming, especially the winters. […]
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Ron and Lee Davis, former UMaine faculty members, will receive the Hands of Peace Award at the upcoming 22nd annual harvest supper, according to a Bangor Daily News report. Ron Davis, who is known locally for his work with the Orono Bog Boardwalk, was affiliated with UMaine’s Climate Change Institute. Lee Davis taught biology and […]
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Research being conducted by UMaine forensic anthropologist Marcella Sorg was mentioned in a Central Maine Morning Sentinel story about a 709-acre tract of land in rural Somerset County, Maine, that will be used as a place for disabled veterans to hunt and a variety of other uses, including Sorg’s research. Sorg, who works with the […]
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Prof. Karl Kreutz of the UMaine Climate Change Institute was quoted in a Nature story about the fate of a large collection or Arctic ice cores held by the Canadian government. Scientists who work with the collection differ on the extent to which it’s future is threatened by budget cuts, but Kreutz says he believes […]
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