WVII (Channel 7) spoke with Caitlin McDonough Mackenzie, a postdoctoral research fellow with the University of Maine Climate Change Institute; Aaron Putnam, an assistant professor in UMaine’s School of Earth and Climate Sciences; and Peter Strand, a doctoral student at UMaine; for the first installment of its “Summit to Shore” series focusing on climate research […]
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To understand industrial-age glacier recession and climate warming in New Zealand, an international research team led by the University of Maine will document the past 10,000 years of natural variations by studying the moraines of retreating glaciers and rings of temperature-sensitive trees in the Southern Hemisphere. The data will allow researchers to compare the Holocene-era […]
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The Working Waterfront spoke with Katherine Allen, an assistant professor in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences and Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, about a five-year study she will lead focused on temperature change in the Gulf of Maine. Allen has received a more than $584,000 National Science Foundation CAREER Award […]
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Volunteers at the Orono Bog Boardwalk will host an open house on Aug. 17 and 18 to celebrate the completion of the boardwalk’s reconstruction. At 11 a.m. Aug. 17, there will be a ceremonial ribbon cutting. The original boardwalk was constructed in 2002–2003 under the direction of Ronald Davis, now professor emeritus of the School of […]
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The Maine Edge published a University of Maine news release about Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie’s new website, Plant Love Stories. McDonough MacKenzie and seven other David H. Smith Conservation Research Fellows at UMaine’s Climate Change Institute — Sara Kuebbing, Molly Bletz, Joan Dudney, Bonnie M. McGill, Mallika A. Nocco, Talia Young and Rebecca K. Tonietto — […]
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Eos spoke with Jasmine Saros, a professor and associate director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, for an article on her new research that found Greenland is highly sensitive to recent warming trends. Ecosystems in this most rapidly warming part of the world are more sensitive to sudden climate shifts than […]
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Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie called her grandmother each spring during her childhood when the rhododendrons bloomed in her hometown in Massachusetts. To celebrate, they’d go on a wildflower picnic in Moore State Park. McDonough MacKenzie still thoroughly enjoys “botanizing.” And the David H. Smith Conservation Research Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Maine Climate Change Institute also […]
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The Portland Press Herald cited the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine in an article about a new climate report from the Union of Concerned Scientists that predicts Maine could see more “extreme heat” events in the near future. The report predicts a more than 10-fold increase in the number of 90-plus degree […]
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The New York Times quoted Kimberly Miner, a research assistant professor at the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, in an article about new research linking extreme weather events to the release and spread of toxic chemicals. Extreme weather and fires, which are often intensified by climate change, can dislodge chemicals from soil, homes, industrial […]
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Mount Desert Islander featured Caitlin McDonough Mackenzie, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, in an article about the Second Century Stewardship initiative, a collaboration between the National Park Service and the Schoodic Institute. The initiative centers on a fellowship program that brings early-career scientists to Acadia to study the potential […]
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