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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The Ellsworth American reported on an upcoming conference at George Stevens Academy in Blue Hill. The Reversing Falls Sanctuary Climate Action Group in Brooksville and Robert Shetterly’s “Americans Who Tell the Truth” project will host the 2019 Climate Convergence Conference 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. July 20. A central theme of the conference is to advocate for […]
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Tweets by Jacquelyn Gill, a paleoecologist and climate scientist at the University of Maine, were included in the Daily Mail article, “Scientists awaken 41,000-year-old worms from Siberian permafrost (or did they?): Debate rages over ‘unheard of’ findings described in recent study.” A team of microbiologists announced last year that they had resurrected nematodes that had […]
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