USA Today featured Paul Mayewski, professor and director of the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, and Sean Birkel, Maine state climatologist and assistant professor with a joint appointment in University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the UMaine Climate Change Institute, about data from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer showing that […]
Read more
In an article about the rise in extreme weather due to climate change, The Guardian cited data from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer showing an increase in average global temperature and sea surface temperatures.
Read more
News Center Maine featured research led by Angela Mech, assistant professor of forest entomology at the University of Maine, looking at ways to control and decrease browntail moth populations by disrupting their mating patterns with specialized pheromones. “It’s a public health concern as well as a forest health concern,” Mech said.
Read more
The Associated Press cited data from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer in an article about record-breaking heat in Phoenix this week. ABC News, U.S. News and World Report, Fortune, the Honolulu Star Advertiser, The Gazette (Colorado Springs, Colorado), the South Florida Sun Sentinel, Arizona’s Family (Channel 3 and 5 in Phoenix, […]
Read more
Lauren Ross’s research on the physics of estuaries has brought her all over the world, from France to Frenchman Bay along Mount Desert Island. With her recently-awarded Fulbright, Ross will lead a team of scientists to Chile to look at these transition points between freshwater rivers and the salty sea in a place where so […]
Read more
The Associated Press cited data from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer in a report about record global temperatures in June. The Los Angeles Times, the Connecticut Insider, The National Desk, Southern Minnesota News, The Manchester Times, Yeshiva World, AM NY, WTGS (Fox 28 in Savannah, Georgia) and other outlets shared the […]
Read more
The Associated Press and PBS NewsHour cited data from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer in a report about record high temperatures in California’s Death Valley. The Seattle Times, Spectrum News NY 1, The Independent Tribune (Concord, North Carolina), The Daily Courier (Prescott, Arizona) and other outlets shared the AP report.
Read more
The Bangor Daily News featured the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer, which uses climate data ranging from the mid-1800s to today, and models projecting into this century to create visualizations of the past, present and future environment.
Read more
In an article about the arrival of El Niño, The Hill noted data from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer showing that last Thursday’s worldwide average temperature marked a new high of 63.01 degrees Fahrenheit, surpassing the records set in the preceding days.
Read more
Susan MacKay, senior R&D program manager at the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center, and Hemant Pendse, professor of chemical engineering and founder of the UMaine Forest Bioproducts Research Institute, were featured as panelists on a segment of Maine Public’s show “Maine Calling” focusing on the emerging uses of forest products in Maine.
Read more