• Nikhil Brocchini CCI/SBE M.S. Thesis Defense

    Bryand Global Sciences Building, Room 300

    Nikhil Brocchini, Master's student in CCI/SBE, will be defending his thesis, "Global Spatiotemporal Patterns of Pleistocene Large Mammal Extinction: Integrating the Evidence and Resolving the Contradictions," at noon on Thursday, December 5, in the Bryand Global Sciences Center room 300. Thesis advisor: Dr. Jacquelyn Gill To attend via Zoom: https://maine.zoom.us/j/86915555390 

  • SBE Seminar Series: Jasmine Saros, UMaine

    Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions 5710 Norman Smith Hall, Orono, ME, United States

    Dr. Jasmine Saros, UMaine SBE and CCI: Lakes in the cryosphere: ecological consequences of melting glaciers and thawing permafrost  Accelerated glacial recession and permafrost thaw in the Arctic have substantially altered the distribution and characteristics of associated lake ecosystems. The changing cryosphere not only affects the hydrologic cycle, it also alters physical (e.g., turbidity from […]