Jacquelyn Gill, a paleoecologist and associate professor of climate science at the University of Maine, was interviewed for the Grist article, “Climate change is a catastrophe. But is it an ‘existential threat’?” Gill said, “I’m seeing more and more of this eco-anxiety immobilizing people to the point of just giving up, or saying there’s nothing […]
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Experts affiliated with the University of Maine will take part in two events leading up to the sixth Maine Science Festival. Ivan Fernandez, Distinguished Maine Professor in the Climate Change Institute and the School of Forest Resources, will participate in a Bangor Land Trust session titled “Bangor Climate Change: Resilience and Hope” from 9 a.m. […]
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Cindy Isenhour, an associate professor of anthropology and climate change at the University of Maine, was a recent guest on Maine Public’s “Maine Calling” radio show. The show’s topic was the Zero Waste movement that aims to change the entire system so that no waste goes to landfills.
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Four people affiliated with the University of Maine are among those delivering 5 Minute Genius presentations 7:30-9:30 p.m. March 20 at the Bangor Arts Exchange, 193 Exchange St. After each five-minute presentation about cutting-edge science at the Maine Science Festival Showcase Event, audience members are invited to ask questions for an additional 5 minutes. Kate […]
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The latest episode of The Maine Question asks whether studying extinct species can prepare us for the future. Jacquelyn Gill, who also studies survivors of the last ice age, thinks so. To travel back in time, this paleoecologist has crawled into a Siberian permafrost caves to examine a 40,000-year-old mummified lion cub. She’s also excited […]
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Aaron Putnam, Peter Strand and Patricia Joyner are highlighted in a feature titled “How boulders in Mongolian mountains reveal the pace of climate change” in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Putnam is an assistant professor in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences and Climate Change Institute, Strand is a doctoral candidate and Joyner […]
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The UMaine Arctic Initiative, in collaboration with the Office of Research Development, will hold a workshop titled “Strengthening the impact of your Arctic research,” from noon to 1:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 28, in the Bangor Room of Memorial Union. Panelists Laura Millay, research and evaluation coordinator at the Maine Center for Research in STEM Education; […]
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Geophysicist Seth Campbell was featured in the PBS NewsHour story “A risky expedition to study the ‘doomsday glacier.’” The assistant professor in the Climate Change Institute and School of Earth and Climate Sciences journeyed with a team to Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier — “the largest, most menacing source of rising sea levels all over the world […]
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GlacierHub detailed Heather Clifford and Alex More’s findings that Saharan dust storms are likely to intensify. Clifford is a graduate student with the Climate Change Institute and More is a research professor at the CCI, a researcher at Harvard University, and an associate professor in the School of Health Sciences at Long Island University in […]
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World-renowned climate scientist and explorer Paul Mayewski and glaciochemist Mariusz Potocki will give a free, public talk titled “The University of Maine’s Role in the National Geographic and Rolex Perpetual Planet Extreme Mt. Everest Expedition,” 5:30–6:30 p.m. Friday, March 6 in the auditorium at the Hutchinson Center in Belfast. The goal of the two-month multinational, […]
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