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NA4001 Paul Mayewski, interviewed by Adam Lee Cilli
Get PDFNA4001 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.
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Mayewski, Paul
No full textPaul Mayewski - Professor of Geology.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/univ_photos/3219/thumbnail.jp
S1E7: What is it like in the most remote, harsh and spectacular locations on Earth?
Get PDFIn Part 1 of this two-part podcast, “The Maine Question” asks what it’s like in the most remote, harsh and spectacular locations on Earth? Anyone with a thirst for adventure has likely dreamed of seeing the South Pole, Mount Everest, or the massive ice sheets of Greenland. Paul Mayewski has done all of that and more. Here, he talks with host Ron Lisnet about his adventures during his 55-plus expeditions in extreme locales. Mayewski, a scientist, explorer and director of the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, estimates he’s lived about four years’ total in a tent or under the stars in remote regions. His devotion has resulted in groundbreaking discoveries about climate change. In this podcast, Mayewski talks about preparing locally and globally for what’s in store
S1E8: What’s it like living and doing research in the world’s most remote locations? (part 2)
Get PDFIn Part 2 of this two-part episode, Mayewski recalls drilling ice cores on glaciers and living in a tent for weeks while it’s minus 50 degrees C. In addition to sharing exciting adventures, Mayewski talks about the tremendous power and responsibility of the media to report on climate change. While climate change has become politicized, Mayewski says climate science is fact-based and that it’s important to be a fact-based society. Although he believes the climate has already entered a period of instability, Mayewski says he’s optimistic about how the world could evolve
S6E1: What happens if Mount Everest loses all of its snow and ice?
Get PDFNo place on earth can escape the effects of climate change, not even Mount Everest. The highest glacier on the world’s tallest mountain — the South Col Glacier — is rapidly disappearing. A new University of Maine-led study found that the glacier is losing several decades of ice and snow accumulation annually due to human-induced climate change.
These findings are the latest from the 2019 National Geographic and Rolex Perpetual Planet Everest Expedition, led by UMaine Climate Change Institute director Paul Mayewski. In this episode of “The Maine Question,” Mayewski and UMaine Ph.D. candidate Mariusz Potocki, both co-authors of the new study, elaborate on the findings and their implications for mountaineering and the glacier stored water on which more than 1 billion people depend to provide melt for drinking water and irrigation. They also describe what it takes to conduct research on the rooftop of the world
An interview with Paul Mayewski, director of the Climate Change Institute at the
No full textAn interview with Paul Mayewski, director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine at Orono. He has led more than 50 expeditions to remote regions, particularly Antarctica, and with his colleagues, pioneered the use of ice cores to evaluate climate change over time. He gives his view of how climate change might affect Maine and ways in which it might be counteracted
Upper Rennick Glacier Ice Massfluctuation Study
Get PDFGlacial 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)
S3E7: Did climate impact WWI, Spanish flu casualties?
Get PDFIncessant torrential rain and cold air over Europe from 1914 to 1919 likely increased the number of people who died during World War I (22 million) and the Spanish flu pandemic (50 million). Alex More and Paul Mayewski from the Climate Change Institute connected data from climate science, history and public health to make the discovery. The colleagues say the once-in-a-century climate anomaly may have been caused by dust and explosives from the war that impacted the local atmosphere. As we anticipate another wave of COVID-19, More says we should be mindful of the interconnectedness of human-caused climate change, environmental conditions and disease
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
Spaulding, Nicole; Bohleber, Pascal; Sneed, Sharon; Clifford, Heather; Korotkikh, Elena; Kurbatov, Andrei V.; Handley, Michael; More, Alexander F.; Mayewski, Paul A. 2021, "Colle Gnifetti Ice Core - ICPMS Li record - Climate Change Institute - University of Maine"
No full textSpaulding, Nicole; Bohleber, Pascal; Sneed, Sharon; Clifford, Heather; Korotkikh, Elena; Kurbatov, Andrei V.; Handley, Michael; More, Alexander F.; Mayewski, Paul A. 2021, "Colle Gnifetti Ice Core - ICPMS Li record - Climate Change Institute - University of Maine."
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