Climate Change

Jacobson featured on ‘Maine Calling’ discussing mammoths in Maine

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 […]

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BDN highlights research into how climate change will affect coastal spruce forests

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 […]

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Gill speaks to media about the anthropocene

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 […]

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Weiskittel speaks to CNN about forest fires

CNN interviewed Aaron Weiskittel, professor of forest biometrics and modeling at the University of Maine, about the increased risk of wildfires in the Northeast this year. “Wherever there’s forests, there’s always a risk of forest fires,” Weiskittel said. Weiskittel also explained that climate change and milder winters in the Northeast are contributing to an influx […]

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Media cover UMaine grant to study impact of climate change on wild blueberries

News Center Maine, the Bangor Daily News, MaineBiz, WFVX-TV (Fox 22/ABC 7 in Bangor) and Energy News Network reported that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) has awarded $650,000 to a University of Maine project investigating the impacts of climate change on wild blueberry ecosystems and economics.

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Media cite UMaine Climate Reanalyzer data about North Atlantic sea temperatures

In an article about sea surface temperature anomalies in the North Atlantic in early March, The Independent, CBC, Quartz and Jersey Evening Post cited data from the University of Maine Climate Reanalyzer showing that the North Atlantic temperature rose above previous records and is now 1 C warmer than the 1981–2011 mean average for this time […]

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