Amalia Harrington, a Maine Sea Grant marine Extension associate at the University of Maine, collaborated with other scientists in the National Sea Grant American Lobster Initiative (ALI) to publish a report detailing how warming waters impact lobsters. The researchers compiled a suite of recently published scientific articles and made the information accessible to the nonscientific community. “A Fishery in […]
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The Penobscot Bay Pilot shared a University of Maine news release highlighting research findings suggesting that the sea ice cover in the Southern Hemisphere has exhibited seasonal variability for millennia. Dominic Winski, a UMaine research assistant professor, and Karl Kreutz, a UMaine professor, studied the chemistry of a 54,000-year-old ice core sampled from the South […]
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ESPN interviewed Paul Mayewski for an article about what people learned about Mount Everest in the past 100 years. Mayewski, director of the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, discussed findings from the National Geographic and Rolex Perpetual Planet Everest Expedition, particularly the pollutants found trapped in glaciers. “As they melt, they release those toxic […]
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Sea ice cover in the Southern Hemisphere is extremely variable, from summer to winter and from millennium to millennium, according to a University of Maine-led study. Overall, sea ice has been on the rise for about 10,000 years, but with some exceptions to this trend. Dominic Winski, a research assistant professor at the UMaine Climate […]
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VillageSoup cited Esperanza Stancioff, a University of Maine Cooperative Extension professor, in reporting on efforts to help coastal communities address climate change and rising sea levels in Waldo County. Stancioff is a member of the group Collaborating Toward Climate Solutions (CTCS), which includes researchers from Bowdoin College, the University of Maine at Machias, the Maine […]
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The Bangor Daily News picked up a University of Maine news release announcing the award of a prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to Zander Roman, a UMaine senior studying Earth and climate sciences. Roman will use the award to pursue a doctorate in paleoclimatology at UMaine and study what triggered the change in […]
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DW talked with Jacquelyn Gill, a University of Maine associate professor of paleoecology, about increasing fears of climate change, particularly among younger populations who fear for the future of the planet. “We know that we won’t be fine, but there’s a lot of space between fine and doomed,” Gill said. “That space is our greatest […]
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The Bangor Daily News, Mainebiz, Morning Ag Clips, the Penobscot Bay Pilot and Eurasia Review, picked up a University of Maine news release highlighting research which shows that the blueberry barrens of Downeast Maine are warming at a faster rate than the rest of Maine, suggesting that unique strategies to mitigate climate change are required to sustain the […]
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What triggered the change in climate that caused the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) — the largest expansion of ice cover across the planet in the last ice age — remains a mystery, one that Zander Roman of Belfast wants to help solve. When he begins his paleoclimate Ph.D. program at the University of Maine, Roman […]
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Wild blueberry fields in Down East Maine are warming faster than the state as a whole, according to a new University of Maine study on the effects of climate change on the barrens over the past 40 years. The difference in rising temperature rates suggests the need to develop specific wild blueberry management strategies, such […]
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