(Response, Forcing, Impact, Policy, and Mitigation)
Directly Affecting Maine
Made By Researchers from Units
Throughout the University of Maine
Climate change is a critical concern at local to global scales and the University of Maine has a nationally and internationally recognized tradition of research related to past, present, and future climate change (response and forcing) and of the impacts, policy, and mitigation issues concerned with current and future climate change. This document offers a sampling of the contributions made by University researchers to the understanding of the broad range of climate change issues impacting the State of Maine and surrounding regions.
This document draws from a broad spectrum of researchers, academic departments, and research centers and is dedicated to the following aims:
- Inform other researchers, the public and State and Federal entities of the broad contributions and capabilities offered by University of Maine climate change researchers.
- Build further research and outreach capacity in the field of climate change at the University of Maine through the identification and utilization of existing strength and capacity.
- Provide a virtual home for the identification of University of Maine climate change research to which contributions can be added and as a consequence provide an evolving synthesis of University of Maine climate change research.
Examples of Climate Change Impacts and Monitoring Related to Maine
- Maine’s Ice Age Trail (Borns, Smith, Thompson)
- Understanding the long-term climate system perspective (Maasch, Mayewski)
- Annual to millennial scale variability over the North Atlantic (Mayewski)
- Abrupt climate change events in the North Atlantic
- Gulf of Maine climate variability (Kreutz)
- Maine’s changing vegetation (Jacobson)
- Sea level rise along the coast of Maine (J. Kelley)
- Postglacial changes of Maine’s lake levels (Dieffenbacher-Krall)
- Global sea level in response to warming (Hughes)
- Archaeological evidence for climate change over Maine (Sanger)
- Climate change and Maine archaeology (Robinson)
- Geoarcheology (A. Kelley)
- New England’s weather derived from written records (Smith)
- Forensic climatology (McNally and Maasch)
- Understanding atmospheric chemistry (Mayewski)
- Hg in Maine’s lakes (Norton)
- Climate impact on Maine’s forests (Wagner)
- Climatic impacts on tree diebacks and declines (Livingston)
- Maine Forest soils and watershed biogeochemistry (Fernandez)
- Maine Insects (Alyokhin)
- Climate, lake hydrology, and lake biogeochemistry (Webster)
- Wetland ecology, conservation and climate (Calhoun)
- Horticulture and climate change (Burnett)
- Sensor technology and environmental monitoring (Lad)
- The Impact of Climate Change On Tourism in Maine (Reiling)
Examples of Climate Change Policy and Mitigation Related to Maine:
- A Primer for Miaine: Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center report (pdf 407)
- Economic Mechanisms and Information Programs Related to Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Rubin)
- Conservation under changing climate (Kinnison)
- Greenhouse gas emissions and change detection in river basins (Cronan)
- Understanding and mitigating the UM environmental footprint (Stearns, Kaspari, Dixon)
- Microbial fuel cells: converting waste to energy (MacRae)