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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The Boothbay Register published a media release from the Darling Marine Center about Bob Steneck, who received the University of Maine Presidential Research and Creative Achievement Award. The internationally recognized marine ecologist’s expertise ranges from coral reefs and kelp forests to fisheries and marine conservation and management. Newsweek, The New York Times, The New Yorker, […]
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Phys.org ran a University of Maine media release about Frankie St. Amand’s trial risk-assessment matrix that identifies southern Maine municipalities likely to experience rapid increases in population and infrastructure development related to climate-driven resettlement. If urgent, unplanned climate-driven migration overwhelms state and local protections, the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. student says archeological sites containing artifacts of pre-European, Native […]
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As sea-level rise, extreme weather events and storm surge become more frequent and severe along the Maine coast, people who live there will move inland. Globally, weather-related hazards accounted for more than 230 million displacements from 2008 to 2018, according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center. In 2018 alone, 1.2 million people in the United […]
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Brenda Hall has been elected a Geological Society of America Fellow for her sustained record of distinguished contributions to geosciences and the GSA through publications, applied research, teaching and contributing to public awareness of geology. Hall is a professor in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences and the Climate Change Institute at the University […]
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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 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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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 (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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