Climate Change

Science magazine speaks with Gill about hiring remote postdocs

Science magazine spoke with Jacquelyn Gill, an associate professor of paleoecology at the University of Maine, for an article about hiring remote postdoctoral researchers. Remote work options, if feasible, should be considered for postdocs because they help make academia more inclusive, particularly for researchers who have family constraints or financial constraints that would prevent moving, […]

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Scientific American quotes Mayewski in article on coronavirus, geological records

Scientific American quoted Paul Mayewski, director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, in the article “Will the Earth ‘Remember’ the Coronavirus Pandemic?” Amid widespread lockdowns to combat the coronavirus pandemic, worldwide emissions of carbon dioxide are down by 17 percent since a year ago, and analyses suggest that 2020 will see […]

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Mayewski, Potocki featured in Yachting World article

Paul Mayewski and Mariusz Potocki are highlighted in Skip Novak’s first-person account of a scientific mission in the Southern Ocean titled “Down For The Count” in the June issue of Yachting World. Mayewski directs the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine and advises Potocki, a glaciochemist and doctoral candidate. They ventured to the […]

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WBTS publishes story about Mayewski

WBTS (Channel 10 in Boston) published a story about Paul Mayewski, director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, titled “Meet a Climate Scientist Studying Clues Found in Ice.” Mayewski, who the station referred to as “the Ice King,” has led more than 60 expeditions to some of the remotest polar and […]

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‘The Maine Question’ examines spread of ticks and diseases they carry

What’s the tick situation in Maine? Tick-borne diseases, some of which are debilitating, are on the rise in Maine.  In this episode of “The Maine Question,” host Ron Lisnet asks University of Maine scientists Allison Gardner and Elissa Ballman about the tick situation in the state and goals of their tick-related research projects. Gardner examines […]

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McDonough MacKenzie paper earns award for exemplary botany contributions 

The awards keep coming for Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie, a David H. Smith Conservation Research Fellow at the Climate Change Institute.  The New England Botanical Club announced that her paper, “Common garden experiments as a dynamic tool for ecological studies of alpine plants and communities in eastern North America,” has received the Merritt Lyndon Fernald Award […]

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C&EN interviews Miner on organic pollutant found in Arctic

Chemical & Engineering News interviewed Kimberley Rain Miner, research assistant professor with the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, for the article titled “CFC replacements are a source of persistent organic pollution in the Arctic.” Researchers have discovered short-chain compounds of polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), a type of organic pollutant, in ice cores in the Arctic, […]

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Mayewski, Norchi co-author cover story about coronavirus, climate change for Global Geneva

University of Maine Climate Change Institute director Paul Mayewski and Charles Norchi, Benjamin Thompson Professor of Law at the University of Maine School of Law and Fulbright-Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Iceland) Arctic Scholar, co-authored the cover story “COVID-19 and climate change: the planet’s twin crises” in Global Geneva, an independent, international print and online journalism publication in […]

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