Figuring out how to use the wealth of climate and weather data gathered by various scientists and agencies around the world has become a herculean task. A tool developed at the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute brings together a variety of these datasets into digestible charts, maps and animations that anyone can use — […]
Read more
Cosmos reported that the World Meteorological Organization has confirmed the world’s hottest recorded week, following unofficial reporting of a string of record-beating days from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer.
Read more
News Center Maine featured the work of the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer and Sean Birkel, Maine state climatologist and assistant professor with a joint appointment in University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the UMaine Climate Change Institute. Birkel discussed the warning signs presented by the recent spate of record hot weather. […]
Read more
The Associated Press, New York Times, CNN, Fortune, Axios, Mother Jones, CBS News, USA Today, Maine Monitor, The Globe and Mail, Phys.org, Space.com, Science News, The Pointer, Spectrum News 1 (Austin, Texas) and The Nation cited data from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer in reporting about how Earth’s average temperature set a new unofficial […]
Read more
The Associated Press, CNN, The Guardian, The Independent, Mother Jones, Marketplace, Forbes, The Hill, IFLScience, New Scientist, People, Washington Post, the Boston Globe, UPI, Vox and Maine Public cited the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer to report that July 3 and 4 were Earth’s unofficial hottest days on record. The record is preliminary, pending […]
Read more
The Guardian cited data from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer in an article about concerns over extreme weather due to recent record high ocean temperatures and the impending El Niño. The Guardian also cited UMaine Climate Reanalyzer data in reporting about the United Nations World Meteorological Organization declaring the arrival of […]
Read more
Wired cited data from the University of Maine Climate Reanalyzer showing extremely warm Atlantic Ocean temperatures in an article about whether a forming El Niño will be able to stem this year’s hurricane season. Hakai Magazine shared the Wired article.
Read more
George Jacobson, professor emeritus of biology, ecology and climate change at the University of Maine, was a panelist on the Maine Public show “Maine Calling” interviewing Gary Hoyle, author of “Mystery Tusk: Searching for Elephants in the Maine Woods,” which tells the story of the first paleontological excavation of a mammoth in Maine, as well […]
Read more
The Bangor Daily News highlighted a new research project by University of Maine students and faculty to determine how climate change will affect spruce forests along Maine’s coastline. The U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded $643,848 for the project, led by Jay Wason III, a UMaine assistant professor of forest […]
Read more
The Washington Post and Science News interviewed Jacquelyn Gill, associate professor of paleoecology and plant ecology with the University of Maine School of Biology and Ecology and Climate Change Institute, for an article about geologic records in Canada’s Crawford Lake reflecting human history’s impact on the environment. “Formalizing the Anthropocene creates a hard and bright […]
Read more