Sara Kelemen informed dozens of Maine Climate Council members last month about how their efforts to combat climate change can lead to equitable outcomes. The Climate Council invited representatives from the University of Maine Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions to a webinar to discuss their equity assessment of the council’s Climate Action […]
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The Falkland Islands are a South Atlantic refuge for some of the world’s most important seabird species, including five species of penguins, Great Shearwaters, and White-chinned Petrels. In recent years, their breeding grounds in the coastal tussac (Poa flabellata) grasslands have come under increasing pressure from sheep grazing and erosion. And unlike other regions of […]
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The Bangor Daily News published answers to the biggest questions posed during its webinar on how climate change affects winter recreation in Maine. The online talk, which was part of the Bangor Daily News Climate Conversation series, featured a panel of researchers that included Sean Birkel, University of Maine research assistant professor with the Climate […]
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Members of the University of Maine community can learn about environmental and climate justice from a few of the leading scholars in the field during a webinar scheduled for 7–9 p.m. Oct. 26. During the talk, “Environmental & Climate Justice: Anti-Racist Movements and Principles for Practice”, panelists from the Yale School of Law, Northeastern University, […]
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A Bangor Daily News editorial cited the participation of Jessica Leahy, a University of Maine professor of human dimensions of natural resources, and Sean Birkel, Maine state climatologist and research assistant professor with UMaine’s Climate Change Institute, in an online forum sponsored by the newspaper. The discussion, one in an ongoing conversation focused on climate […]
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In the article “5 Things a Maine Newcomer Should Know” in Downeast magazine’s November 2020 issue, Sean Birkel, a University of Maine research assistant professor and Maine state climatologist, indicated temperature variations of as much as 10 degrees are common between northern and southern Maine. Birkel also differentiated coastal and inland snow patterns, noting that […]
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Two University of Maine professors contributed to a report that explores how governments can help mitigate ecosystem and species loss through their COVID-19 stimulus and recovery plans. While many countries hope to implement regulatory and funding measures to help “return to normal,” the authors of a Rutgers University-led paper, including Michael Howard and Cynthia Isenhour […]
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The Wiscasset Newspaper noted that Ivan Fernandez, a professor of soil science and forest resources and cooperating professor in the Climate Change Institute, will guest speak at the Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District’s first Virtual Awards Banquet at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 10. Fernandez will offer a talk called “Climate Change in Maine and […]
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The National Center for Science Education has named Jacquelyn Gill a 2020 Friend of the Planet. Gill is an associate professor of paleoecology and plant ecology at the University of Maine and cohost of the “Warm Regards” podcast. She studies past ecosystems, including the impacts of climate change and extinction, and the geographical distribution of […]
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Jacquelyn Gill, University of Maine associate professor of paleoecology, joined a WNPR (Connecticut Public Radio) discussion of how thawing permafrost could exacerbate climate change by releasing carbon currently sequestered in frozen organic matter.
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