Paul Mayewski, director of the Climate Change Institute and professor in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences at the University of Maine, was a recent guest on “The Big Blue Marble” podcast with Anwar Knight. In the episode titled, “A Window into the Planet — 29,000 Feet in the Making,” Mayewski spoke about his […]
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The Bangor Daily News interviewed Sean Birkel, state climatologist and research assistant professor at the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, for an article about how climate change is causing more extreme storms in the state. Since 2017, there have been three extreme storms in Maine, all resulting in hours of rainfall, high wind speeds, […]
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Marcella Sorg, a forensic anthropologist and research professor with the University of Maine Department of Anthropology, Climate Change Institute, and Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, was quoted in the New York Times article “Epstein’s Autopsy ‘Points to Homicide,’ Pathologist Hired by Brother Claims.” In August, the New York City medical examiner’s office said Jeffrey Epstein […]
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Six University of Maine explorers will talk about their experiences participating in the most comprehensive scientific expedition ever conducted on Mount Everest. A free, public panel discussion, “The University of Maine’s Role in the National Geographic and Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Extreme Expedition to Mount Everest,” will be held 1:45–2:45 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15, in the […]
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The University of Maine has launched its podcast “The Maine Question.” Host Ron Lisnet talks with UMaine pioneers, including those who explore backyard gardens, the depths of the oceans, Earth’s highest peaks, or beyond. They’ll share why they’re passionate about their research and what it means for Maine and the world. In the inaugural episode, […]
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“The Greater Good,” the podcast series of the University of Maine Graduate and Professional Center, has posted the first of a two-part series on a summer 2019 trip to Greenland by Paul Mayewski of the UMaine Climate Change Institute, Firooza Pavri of the University of Southern Maine Muskie School of Public Service and Charles Norchi […]
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An Aroostook County man’s nature-based journal notes written in the mid-1900s are shedding light on ecological effects of climate change in understudied northern Maine. L.S. Quackenbush’s daily entries provide evidence that migratory birds’ arrival dates in Oxbow, Maine may not be shifting fast enough to keep up with advancing leaf-out and flowering life cycles, says […]
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Contributions made by Gordon Hamilton and Leigh Stearns are included in Science magazine’s article “Greenland’s Dying Ice,” which features Fiamma Straneo’s research on the Helheim Glacier. Hamilton, an associate research professor at the Climate Change Institute, died in 2016 conducting research in Antarctica. Stearns, an associate professor at the University of Kansas, earned her doctorate […]
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Dominic Winski helped secure the deepest and oldest ice core at the South Pole in order to understand past variations in the Earth’s climate. The oldest ice in the 5,745-foot-long (more than a mile deep) core is 54,302 years old, plus or minus 519 years, says the research assistant professor at the University of Maine […]
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Even with ocean warming, coral bleaching and an intense hurricane, local conservation actions helped a Caribbean coral reef ecosystem rebound in about a decade. Bob Steneck began studying coral reefs off the island of Bonaire, near Venezuela in the Dutch Caribbean in 2002. And for more than 15 years, the University of Maine professor of […]
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