The University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer was featured in News Center Maine and Daily Express reports on heat records worldwide. Nearly the entire planet was labeled red this week, meaning most of the world experienced hotter-than-average temperatures for late July. The effects of the heatwave include wildfires in Greece, forest fires in […]
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A team of University of Maine researchers has been awarded $1.17 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to develop and test land management practices to protect Maine forest workers from exposure to tick-borne diseases. The three-year project, “Developing adaptive forest management practices to mitigate impacts of climate change on human health,” is being led […]
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The University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer was featured in a Washington Post article about all-time heat records across the globe. Temperatures in Northern Siberia were up to 40 degrees above normal, and the highest temperature ever measured in Africa, 124 degrees, was recorded in Algeria, both on July 5. The majority of […]
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The Adirondack Almanack advanced a lecture by Curt Stager, the Draper-Lussi endowed Chair of Paleoecology and Lake Ecology at Paul Smith’s College and a research associate with the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute. The lecture, titled “Gardens: Weather or Not,” is part of a public meeting of the Adirondack Garden Club at the Crowne […]
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University of Maine scientists are part of an interdisciplinary research team equipped with advanced underwater robotics and analytical instrumentation that will set sail in August from Seattle to the northeastern Pacific Ocean. They’ll examine the life and death of plankton — microscopic organisms that are the base of the ocean food web and play a […]
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VillageSoup advanced a field trip to shell middens on the Medomak River led by Alice Kelley, an instructor in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences and a research associate professor with the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine. Kelley will guide field trip participants and educate them on current knowledge of the […]
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The Bangor Daily News cited a 2015 University of Maine Climate Change Institute report on Maine’s climate future in the op-ed “Reducing Maine’s carbon emissions now will pay off later.” The report found flood zones in Maine have expanded, the habitat for lobsters is moving north, and ticks and Lyme disease have an increasing presence […]
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VillageSoup and the Pen Bay Pilot previewed the 27th Annual Georges River Land Trust Gardens in the Watershed tour, where one of the speakers will be Esperanza Stancioff, an extension professor and climate change educator with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension. Stancioff will give a talk titled “Climate Change Effects on Zones and Planting in […]
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Sean Birkel, a research assistant professor in the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, was interviewed for a Portland Press Herald article about changes in spring rainfall. The article also mentioned Glen Koehler, a fruit tree specialist with the UMaine Cooperative Extension. This year marked the third May in a row with very […]
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Gizmodo, Quartz, The TeCake and LabRoots reported on a new study published in Geophysical Research Letters by researchers at the University of Washington and University of Maine. The current record for a continuous ice core is 800,000 years, but the new research shows an even older continuous core may exist deep within the Allan Hills […]
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