UMaine School of Earth and Climate Sciences

04/23/2024

https://umaine.edu/news/blog/2024/04/23/air-force-partners-with-umaine-to-modernize-arctic-weather-sensing-techniques/

“Climate change is occurring faster in the Arctic than anyplace on Earth,” said University of Maine associate professor of glaciology Seth Campbell. “And with that, there opens a whole range of concerns.” Campbell is the lead scientist on a new $260,000 research partnership between UMaine an...

12/29/2023

02/11/2023

https://www.wmtw.com/article/university-of-maine-scientist-seeks-answers-to-climate-change-in-african-glaciers/42831451

Clues from receding glaciers at 15,000 feet in Uganda

12/12/2022

01/25/2022

We're hiring! Come work with us at UMaine School of Earth & Climate Sciences as an Assistant Professor of Coastal Geological Processes! Details here: https://umaine.hiretouch.com/job-details?jobID=73304&job=assistant-professor-of-coastal-geological-processes

03/10/2020

We're hiring! Come work with us at UMaine SECS as the Golden Undergraduate Coordinator and Instructor.

01/13/2020

We're excited to highlight the fascinating work being done by Alice Kelley on shell middens in Maine. She and colleagues have recently put together an exhibit showcasing their work entitled “Maine’s Threatened Shell Middens: Losing a Link to Understanding our Past”which will be on display until spring in the Minsky Culture Lab in the Hudson Museum at the Collins Center for the Arts.

For generations, indigenous Wabanaki people hunted, caught fish, and harvested clams and oysters along the coast of what’s now called Maine. And they left behind middens — heaps of shells — that sometimes contain tools, ceramic shards and bones of animals. Alice Kelley and Bonnie Newsom are in...

10/31/2019

We're ready for Halloween at the School of Earth and Climate Sciences!

10/10/2019

Interesting work by Bradfield Lyon.

By the middle of this century, the average spatial extent of summer heat waves in the United States could be up to 80% larger than they are today if greenhouse emissions continue unabated, according to a new study led by a University of Maine climate scientist. Bradfield Lyon, associate research pro...

09/10/2019

Congrats to recent SECS PhD graduate Dr. Kimberly Rain Miner for her recent selection as one of 125 AAAS IF/THEN® Ambassadors!

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 na...

11/27/2018

According to the university, it's the first data that has been compiled on organochlorine compounds (OCPs) in an Alaskan alpine glacier.

06/11/2018

Check out these gorgeous photos from the Geology Club's recent trip to Iceland!