Manuel Wörsdörfer, assistant professor of management and computing and information science at the University of Maine, was featured on a recent episode of the “Examining Ethics” podcast, produced by the Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics at DePauw University. In the episode, Wörsdörfer reviews both the ethical and politico-economic aspects and implications of climate change and […]
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Sierra Magazine featured an essay entitled “The Asteroid and the Fern” that Jacquelyn Gill, associate professor of paleoecology and plant ecology with the University of Maine School of Biology and Ecology and Climate Change Institute, wrote for the collection “Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story From Despair to Possibility” edited by Rebecca Solnit and […]
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Maine Public’s show Maine Calling featured Paul Mayewski, professor and director of the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Climate Change Institute. Mayewski discussed his latest research and what he has learned over the years about glaciers, melting ice, and human-induced climate change.
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In an article about climate “doomers,” the Washington Post spoke to Jaquelyn Gill, associate professor of paleoecology and plant ecology at the School of Biology and Ecology and Climate Change Institute. Gill told the Washington Post that in 2018 she started hearing different sorts of questions when she spoke at panels or did events online. […]
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The Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine will host a talk, “Rural Maine Feels the Heat,” on Monday, April 10 at 3 p.m. Speaker Brian McGill, professor at the Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions and the School of Biology and Ecology at the University of Maine, will present […]
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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 Bangor Daily News about the impact of climate change on Maine’s mud season. Birkel said that thanks to climate change, exceptionally muddy conditions could start earlier and last […]
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Rafa Tasnim, Ph.D. candidate in ecology and environmental sciences, conducted a Q&A with Rachel Schattman, assistant professor sustainable agriculture at the School of Food and Agriculture, for Frontiers in Science News. They discussed accessibility to clean water and sanitation through the lens of Schattman’s research expertise and perspectives on sustainable agriculture and climate change.
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A number of University of Maine students and faculty members will present at the 2023 Maine Sustainability and Water Conference at the Augusta Civic Center on March 30. UMaine’s Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions is the lead organizer of the event. For more information and to register, visit the event webpage. Session […]
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In an article about President Joe Biden’s Ocean Climate Action Plan, USA Today cited information from the Climate Reanalyzer at the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine that shows sea surface temperatures in the global ocean reached a record high on March 16, averaging 69.8 degrees. MSN, the Spectrum (St. George, Utah), the […]
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Timber Harvesting & Forest Operations noted the University of Maine’s role in a $10 million grant to Purdue University led project called PERSEUS (Promoting Economic Resilience and Sustainability of the Eastern U.S. Forests) designed to help landowners and stakeholders better adapt their forests to increasingly complicated economic and climate conditions in the Eastern U.S. Aaron […]
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