The University of Maine’s Juneau Icefield Research Program and its director of academics and research, Seth Campbell, are profiled in a new book debuting Nov. 2 by award-winning journalist Porter Fox. “The Last Winter: The Scientists, Adventurers, Journeymen, and Mavericks Trying to Save the World,” published by Little, Brown and Company, tells the story of […]
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National Geographic, Science News and Inside Science reported on a new study lead by Kit Hamley, a National Science Foundation graduate research fellow with the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, that identifies evidence of pre-European human activity on the Falkland Islands. The reports particularly focused on the indications these findings present about the possible […]
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Since its first recorded sighting by European explorers in the 1600s, scientists and historians have believed that Europeans were the first people to ever set foot on the Falkland Islands. Findings from a new University of Maine-led study, however, suggests otherwise; that human activity on the islands predates European arrival by centuries. Kit Hamley, National […]
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As the United Nations prepares to kick off its annual Climate Change Conference of the Parties next week, students in a political science class at the University of Maine will debate international climate action tomorrow as part of a semester-long simulation of U.N. negotiations. Their debate on international climate action will be held at 3:30 […]
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The Bangor Daily News noted that Ivan Fernandez was one of the recipients of the Natural Resources Council of Maine’s 2021 Conservation Leadership Awards. The award recognizes Fernandez, a University of Maine professor of soil science and forest resources, “for his leadership as one of Maine’s top climate scientists, providing policy-makers and the public with […]
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Alessandro Mereghetti has 59 time capsules from Siberia that will give insights into which animals lived there more than 20,000 years ago, as well as what plants they ate and how they interacted with the landscape over millennia. These time capsules from the Siberian permafrost are coprolites. Also called fossilized feces. “Poop is a time […]
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The Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine will host a talk about water insecurity and health in the U.S. and Canada, including the effects in rural and Indigenous communities, from 3–4 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 1. Water insecurity is broadly defined as the lack of adequate and safe […]
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The Penobscot Bay Pilot shared a University of Maine news release about Noah Charney’s simulated climate future of the Galápagos Islands. “The Galápagos are a global treasure,” said the University of Maine assistant professor in the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Conservation Biology.
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Protecting the Galápagos Islands — sometimes referred to as an evolution showcase and a living museum — is a priority for Noah Charney. “The Galápagos are a global treasure,” says Charney about the 19-island volcanic archipelago that’s home to giant tortoises, finches, marine iguanas, flightless cormorants, huge cacti, land snails, mockingbirds, corals, sharks, penguins, sea […]
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The Penobscot Bay Pilot reported that a 2019 National Geographic and Rolex Perpetual Planet Everest Expedition, which included six University of Maine researchers, set three Guinness World Records. The team from UMaine included expedition leader Paul Mayewski, the director of UMaine’s Climate Change Institute; Geology team co-leader Aaron Putnam, an assistant professor; member of the […]
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