Mainebiz reported Kimberley Miner, a University of Maine research assistant professor in the Climate Change Institute and a physical scientist at the Geospatial Research Laboratory, has been selected as a nationwide ambassador of an initiative promoting opportunities for women innovators in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. Miner was named by the American Association […]
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Kimberley Rain Miner, a University of Maine research assistant professor in the Climate Change Institute and a physical scientist at the Geospatial Research Laboratory, has been selected as one of 125 AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) IF/THEN® Ambassadors. IF/THEN®, a national initiative of Lyda Hill Philanthropies, seeks to further women in science, […]
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Katherine Allen talked with WVII (Channel 7) for the second part of its Summit to Shore series that focused on the Gulf of Maine, which is warming faster than 99% of the world’s oceans. The assistant professor in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences and Climate Change Institute studies the ocean’s history by analyzing […]
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Sean Birkel talked with WVII (Channel 7) for its story about Hurricane Dorian. Birkel, a research assistant professor at the Climate Change Institute and the Maine state climatologist, indicated that climate change may result in more extreme weather. “So, in a warming climate, warming ocean surface temperatures provide fuel and moisture for a hurricane, so […]
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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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