In an article about the upcoming hurricane season, the Miami Herald cited calculations from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer showing that Sunday marked the highest sea surface temperature on record for the North Atlantic. Despite the warm water temperatures, which usually lead to more hurricane activity, this hurricane season has been […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported that The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $661,462 Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) grant to the University of Maine to upgrade a multiuser instrument in the Climate Change Institute (CCI). The $661,462 grant will be used to expand the capabilities of the ICP-MS Facility through the acquisition of a new […]
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Reuters interviewed Maine state climatologist and University of Maine faculty member Sean Birkel about tweets sharing inaccurate conclusions drawn from images from the Climate Reanalyzer, a platform for visualizing climate and weather datasets that he developed. Birkel, a research assistant professor at the Climate Change Institute and climate services specialist with University of Maine Cooperative […]
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The Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRCM) wrote about a tour that its staff took of the Advanced Structures and Composites Center (ASCC) at the University of Maine. NRCM highlighted the ASCC’s work to bring green energy and sustainable materials to Maine and beyond, from offshore wind energy projects to wood composite materials.
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $661,462 Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) grant to the University of Maine to upgrade a multiuser instrument in the Climate Change Institute. Over the last two decades, the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s ICP-MS facility has conducted valuable climate, environmental, ecosystem and engineering research and training across the […]
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Sean Birkel, state climatologist and assistant professor at the Climate Change Institute and Cooperative Extension at the University of Maine, spoke to News Center Maine for an article about the impact of climate change on Maine dairy farmers. Birkel said that while more arid regions of the country will get drier with the increasing temperatures, […]
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El Nino has been a major driver of societal collapse, various catastrophes and cultural change in coastal Peru for millenia, but it isn’t the only culprit. In a new study, University of Maine researchers warn against over-interpreting the role climatic change, like an El Nino event, plays in societal and cultural transition. Dan Sandweiss, a […]
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As part of their series “Climate Driven: A deep dive into Maine’s response, one county at a time,” Maine Public featured the University of Maine’s Howland Research Forest, where scientists have undertaken groundbreaking studies on acid rain, forest ecology and soil health. At the research forest, carbon and other greenhouse gas measurements are continuously recorded […]
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News Center Maine reported that the University of Maine has added four new Level 2 electric vehicle charging stations, bringing the total number of chargers at UMaine to 35. The charging stations were added in part due to increasing demand. “I constantly get emails from folks looking for a charging space. I get an email […]
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In an article debunking a tweet that used an image from the University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer, Climate Fact Check noted that the Data Sources & Additional Information section on the Climate Reanalyzer website clearly mentions that climate trends should be inferred from long-term data. Thus, using the global temperature record on a single day […]
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