The Beacon featured Natalie Michelle, an Interdisciplinary Ph.D. candidate at the University of Maine who’s establishing an intertribal climate change coalition. Michelle, who is Penobscot and Passamaquoddy, says a goal of the partnership will be to create a climate change adaptation workbook targeted toward the Maine environment and based on Wabanaki epistemologies and traditional values.
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The Washington Post cited the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s report “Maine Climate Future 2020 Update” in an article about a recent heat wave in northern New England. Caribou, Maine experienced its highest recorded temperature on June 19, part of a heat wave in northern New England and eastern Canada, according to the article. […]
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has named Abigail Muscat a 2020 Ernest F. Hollings Undergraduate Scholar. Muscat, a rising third-year marine sciences major and international affairs minor at the University of Maine, will receive a two-year academic scholarship, a 10-week paid summer internship opportunity and funding to participate in two national science conferences. “It […]
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A new Seed Grant Program will facilitate research collaborations between the University of Maine and Northeastern University as part of a memorandum of understanding between the two institutions. The program will fund up to $50,000 for a year of research for each initiative led by at least one researcher from each university in any field […]
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Editor’s note: Six Climate Change Institute explorers participated in the National Geographic and Rolex Perpetual Planet Everest Expedition featured in the “Expedition Everest” special scheduled to air at 10 p.m. EST June 30 on National Geographic. CCI director Paul Mayewski was the expedition leader and lead scientist. He guided the biological, geological, glaciological, meteorological, mapping […]
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National Geographic published a story about research connected to the National Geographic and Rolex Perpetual Planet Everest Expedition. A group of scientists in labs spread across Europe, the U.S. and Nepal have been working on the mountain “remotely” — analyzing a trove of ice, snow, water and sediment samples they collected last spring as part […]
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (NE-SARE) program has awarded $149,000 to the University of Maine School of Food and Agriculture. The award will support a yearlong fellowship program for agricultural advisers and farmers working in vegetable and small fruit industries to adapt to challenges related to climate change. The […]
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The Maine Climate Council will hold meetings via Zoom on Wednesday, June 17 and Thursday, June 18 from 9 a.m.–12:30 p.m. both days. Advance registration is required. There are separate registration forms for each day. More information is online. University of Maine professor Ivan Fernandez serves on the Maine Climate Council and co-chairs the Science […]
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The Analytical Scientist featured University of Maine researchers taking part in the joint Climate Change Institute-Harvard University Colle Gnifetti Historical Ice Core Project. One of its main goals, according to the story titled “Frozen in Time,” is to study the intricate relationship between humans and the climate by tracking past events through ice cores. Paul […]
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AMC Outdoors Magazine interviewed Tim Waring about environmental benefits that have resulted from grounded flights, shuttered factories and other efforts to contain the coronavirus. “In the U.S., I expect most of the gains in terms of the environment will be quickly reversed [as the economy reopens]. Understanding that is important,” says Waring, an associate professor […]
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