The Bangor Daily News shared that the University of Maine will host the second annual Climate Change Workshop, titled “Communicating Climate Change Science,” July 10–19. This two-day online professional development program, developed in partnership by the UMaine Climate Change Institute and Division of Lifelong Learning, will feature keynote talks and interactive sessions on interdisciplinary climate […]
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In an article about a sudden spike in global ocean temperatures, the Associated Press and Futurism cited data from the University of Maine Climate Reanalyzer showing that from early March to this week, the global average ocean sea surface temperature jumped nearly two-tenths of a degree Celsius, or 0.36 degree Fahrenheit. The Climate Reanalyzer was […]
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Correction: This post was updated May 1, 2023. The University of Maine will host the second annual Climate Change Workshop, titled “Communicating Climate Change Science,” July 18–19. This two-day online professional development program, developed in partnership by the UMaine Climate Change Institute (CCI) and Division of Lifelong Learning, will feature keynote talks and interactive sessions […]
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In an article about the possibility of a “robust” El Niño through the rest of 2023 and into 2024, Fox Weather shared data from the University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer showing that the average daily sea surface temperature has hovered around 70 degrees Fahrenheit, which is nearly 2 degrees warmer than the running multi-decade mean. […]
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Jacquelyn Gill, associate professor of paleoecology and plant ecology with the University of Maine School of Biology and Ecology and Climate Change Institute, was a featured guest on the “Sustain What?” podcast from the Columbia Climate School. The podcast discussed why it’s not too late to turn the tides on climate change.
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Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective multidisciplinary collegiate honor society, has awarded graduate research grants to three University of Maine students. Emma Erwin, a Ph.D. student in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences; Elizabeth Leclerc, an interdisciplinary Ph.D. student with the Department of Anthropology and the Climate Change Institute; and Dylan […]
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Kit Hamley, Ph.D. candidate in the School of Biology and Ecology and Climate Change Institute (CCI) at the University of Maine, has been awarded an $25,000 American Dissertation Fellowship from the American Association of University Women. This fellowship will support Hamley for 2023–24 as she completes her dissertation, which leverages new tools to understand human […]
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Sean Birkel, Maine state climatologist and assistant professor with a joint appointment in University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the UMaine Climate Change Institute, spoke to the Sun Journal about how the increased heat from global warming “facilitates extremes” in weather.
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The University of Maine Climate Change Institute has announced the graduate students who won awards for their research presentations during the 2023 Harold W. Borns Jr. Symposium. Ph.D. student Alessandro Mereghetti won first place for best overall talk for his presentation titled “Reconstructing Extinct Herbivore Community Structure Through High-Resolution Coprolite Analysis: An Insight into the […]
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Editor’s note: Story updated April 18, 2023. The Association of College and University Printers (ACUP+) awarded University of Maine Printing Services two first-place platinum production awards (large institution) for its work on a Climate Change Institute 50th anniversary publication and a College of Engineering student recruitment poster. The 78-page CCI publication, which included a nearly […]
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