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NA4001 Paul Mayewski, interviewed by Adam Lee Cilli
No full textNA4001 Paul Mayewski, interviewed by Adam Lee Cilli, November 19, 2013, in his office in Sawyer Hall at the University of Maine, Orono. Mayewski talks about the beginnings of his career in climate science and Antarctic research; conducting research in Antarctica and its attendant dangers; the Climate Change Institute’s contributions, particularly the discovery of abrupt climate change; his coming to UMaine and moving the CCI in new directions; changes in the practice of Antarctic research; and the reality of anthropogenic climate change.
Text: 16 pp. transcript
Recording: mfc_na4001_audio001 76 minutes
Photo provided by the Climate Change Institute.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mf192/1023/thumbnail.jp
Father Andrew Mullen 1790-1818: a study in early nineteenth century spirituality
No full textThis thesis is laid out in three parts: Part I. The life and death of Andrew Mullen. The life is based, to a large extent, on a long letter to his mother, Catherine Mullen, dated 7 January 1810. The letter gives a definite insight into his spirituality based on his membership of the Archconfraternity of the Blessed Sacrament. There is a hint that he had a premonition of an early death. Part II. The burial of Andrew Mullen and the immediate cult to him This is based on documentary evidence. Part III. Most of this part is a catalogue of testimonies taken from 1993 onwards. Then there is the conclusion on the popular devotion to Andrew Mullen stressing the theological aspect of the subject. In the course of writing the thesis it was decided to separate the documentary evidence from the oral tradition. This was advantageous in developing the thesis, and the documents provided a secure basis for the oral tradition. Two pieces of information were found in March 1997. They are death notices: 2 January 1819, The Leinster Journal and 7 January 1819, The Car low Morning Post. There is a slight discrepancy between the two on the date of his death. Also this discrepancy shows a slight difference from the date of the tombstone
Journey Into Climate: Exploration, Adventure and the Unmasking of Human Innocence
No full textIn this collection of adventure stories and restored period photos, authors Paul Andrew Mayewski and Michael Cope Morrison tell their personal experiences going to some of the Earth\u27s most remote and challenging places, the scientific discoveries they made there, and their journey from a gradualist viewpoint-thinking that humanity was an inconsequential observer in a slowly changing climate-to the realization that we are deeply, irrevocably involved in the short- and long-term fate of a temperamental climate capable of dramatic changes in a matter of only a few years. They tell of discovering the worldwide reach of industrial emissions and their effects on climate, Civilization, ecosystems, and our individual quality of life; the remarkable success of the Clean Air Act and the Montreal Protocols; and some of the effects that can clear up in weeks or months-and others only over centuries.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/fac_monographs/1055/thumbnail.jp
Upper Rennick Glacier Ice Massfluctuation Study
No full textGlacial geologic mapping conducted during the 1974-75 field season revealed that at least two glacial events have affected the upper Rennick Glacier region: an older Evans glaciation probably correlative with a major expansion of the east antarctic ice sheet, and the Rennick glaciation, which since the end of the late Wisconsin has been in a retreat phase (Mayewski, Attig, and Drewry 1979). Ice surface reconstructions suggest that (1) in the area of the current Rennick Glacier grounding line, approximately 120 kilometers inland from its current terminus, Evansice was at least 1,000 meters higher and Rennick ice as much as 600meters higher than today, and (2) the glacier\u27s grounding line ex-tended at least 98 kilometers, and as much as 43 kilometers, farther north during the maximum stages of these glaciations,respectively (Mayewski et al. 1979). Retreat from the maximum position held by Rennick ice continues to be characterized by inland migration of the Rennick Glacier grounding line and adjustments in the size and dynamics of local alpine glaciers(Mayewski et al. 1979), plus the lowering of lake levels and changes in the size of snow patches (Mayewski and Attig 1979)
GISP2 Ions: Shallow (B) Core (Detailed)
No full textGISP2 major ion concentrations in parts per billion (ppb) by mass. Blanks in the H2O2 data indicate samples that were not analyzed. Blanks in other chemical species represent samples below detection limits. Firn samples were cleaned in the freezer by hand-scraping and placed in a pre-cleaned container. The pieces were kept frozen until analyzed. Samples below 60 meters were cleaned by rinsing with pure (milli-Q) water immediately prior to melting, also in a pre-cleaned container. The data has not been edited to remove possibly contaminated samples
GISP2 Ions: B core (0-200 meters)
No full textThis is the ion data set produced by the Glacier Research Group for the GISP2 B core drilled at the GISP2 site during the summer of 1989. The data is bi-yearly, a combination of averages (approximately 2 year averages) from the detailed sections analyzed and bi-years sections cut between the detailed sections
GISP2 Ions: Deep (D) Core (Detailed)
No full textGISP2 major ion concentrations in parts per billion (ppb) by mass. Blanks in chemical species represent samples below detection limits. Firn samples were cleaned in the freezer by hand scraping and placed in a pre-cleaned container. The pieces were kept frozen until analyzed. Samples from 96 meters to 200 meters were cleaned by rinsing with milli-Q water. Samples below 200 meters were cleaned by hand scraping after sectioning
GISP2 Ions: Deep (D) Core
No full textIon data set produced by the Glacier Research Group for the GISP2 D core, from 2 - 3040 m. 2 to 96 m is B core data. The remainder of data is from D core. D core samples were mechanically cleaned between 96-710m and 1370-1510m. All other samples were melted using a teflon coated aluminium apparatus which melted the center portion from a 3.5x3.5cm section of ice
Paul Nordoff: Composer & Music Therapist (Colin Andrew Lee)
No full textThis is a review of the book "Paul Nordoff: Composer & Music Therapist" authored by Colin Andrew Lee.
Title: Paul Nordoff: Composer & Music Therapist | Author: Colin Andrew Lee | Year: 2014 | Publisher: Barcelona Publishers | Pages: 196 | ISBN: 978-193744064-
Antarctic Oversnow Traverse-based Southern Hemisphere Climate Reconstruction
No full textOn 2 January 2003, the U.S. component of the International Trans Antarctic Scientific Expedition (U.S. ITASE) (Figure 1) arrived at the South Pole after completing more than 5000 km of oversnow traverses that included much of west Antarctica and a portion of east Antarctica (Figure 2). During the traverses, which were performed from 1999 through 2003, U.S. ITASE focused on collecting data that will allow the reconstruction of sub-annual scale climate variability and changes in the chemistry of the atmosphere over the last 200+ years.
ITASE is a multi-disciplinary research program supported by 19 nations and endorsed by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) and the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (IGBP) [Mayewski and Goodwin, 1997]. It is designed to reconstruct the recent climate history of Antarctica through ice coring and related observations along a network of extensive intra-continental traverses. The U.S. component of ITASE is supported by the Office of Polar Programs of the National Science Foundation. It includes scientific projects from the following institutions: Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory-U.S. Army, Desert Research Institute, NASA, Ohio State University, St. Olaf College, the University of Arizona, the University of Colorado, the University of Maine, and the University of Washington. Information concerning climate variability in the middle and high latitudes of the southern hemisphere is obtained by U.S. ITASE, through calibrations developed between US. ITASE ice core records and direct atmospheric observations [Kreutz et al., 2000; Meyerson et al., 2002; Schneider and Steig, 2002]
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