CCI Expedition Timeline

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2019 Chasing the Ice in Greenland: How are Lakes Going to be Affected by Earlier Ice-Out? Vendy Hazukova, Benjamin Burpee, Todd Burpee, Robert Northington, and Jasmine Saros April – July 2019

Looking into the Recent History of Thwaites Glacier — Pine Island Bay, Antarctica

Climate Change Institute Expeditions and Field Team Members Contributions from the Archaeological Record: Molluscan Climate Proxies and El Niño-Southern Oscillation, North Coast, Peru

Arctic Futures Workshop, Southwest Greenland

Frankie St. Amand

Yong Chen, Lee Karp-Boss, Alice Kelley, Paul Mayewski, Peter Neill, Robert Northington, Neal Pettigrew, Erin Roche, Jasmine Saros, Kristin Schild, Matthew Bampton, Firooza Pavri, Jan Piribeck, Vinton Valentine, Charles Norchi, and Jeffrey Thaler June 2019

The Response of the Northern Flying Squirrel (Glaucomys Sabrinus) to Rising Ambient Temperatures — Aroostook State Park, Presque Isle, Maine

Funding Support: University of Maine System Research Reinvestment Fund, USM’s Maine Economic Improvement Fund (MEIF), and the University of Maine Office of the Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate School

October – December 2019

Last Glacial Termination in Interior Asia — Earth-surface mapping and 10Be Exposure Dating in the Mongolian Altai Mountains Aaron Putnam, Peter Strand, and Patricia Joyner July – August 2019 Funding Support: National Science Foundation, and Comer Science & Education Foundation

Elise Gudde, Danielle Levesque, and Stephanie Ross

Funding Support: Dan & Betty Churchill Exploration Fund, Phi Kappa Phi Love of Learning Award, and National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program

Creating the Midden Minders Citizen Science Program Alice Kelley, Bonnie Newsom, and Arthur Spiess Summer and Fall 2019; Summer and Fall 2018 Funding Support: Maine Sea Grant and Senator George Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions

May – August 2019 Funding Support: UMS Research Reinvestment Fund

Scott Braddock and Meghan Spoth January – March, 2019 Funding support: National Science Foundation award: PLR-1738989

Iceland Lightweight Everest Drill Test Daniel Dixon, Paul Mayewski, and Mariusz Potocki March 2019

Biogeography of the Grand Kankakee Marsh, Northern Indiana, U.S. over the past 5,000 Years

Rediscovering the Ancient Maya City of Tikin Ha, Belize Brett Houk, Gregory Zaro, and Mark Willis February – March 2019

Katherine Glover, Jack Ferrara, Meredith Helmick, and Jennifer Philippe

Funding Support: National Geographic Society (NGS-51012R-18)

June 2019

National Geographic, Rolex Perpetual Planet Extreme Expedition to Mount Everest, Nepal

Funding Support: National Geographic Society Early Career Grant

Paul Mayewski, Aaron Putnam, Mariusz Potocki, Heather Clifford, Peter Strand, and Laura Mattas

Chasing the Mammoth Steppe — Exploring the Past and Present of Megafauna in the Arctic Alessandro Mereghetti, Karen James, Albert Protopopov, and Valeriy Plotnikovl July – August 2019 Funding Support: NSF CAREER Grantl

April – June 2019 Funding Support: National Geographic’s Perpetual Planet partnership with Rolex

Predicting the Sensitivity of Boreal Lake Ecosystems to Climate Change, Isle Royal National Park, Michigan Joseph Mohan, Dan Engstrom, and Mark Edlund

South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands Expedition

August 2019 Funding Support: National Park Service PMIS #160929

Paul Mayewski and Mariusz Potocki December 2019 – February 2020

Climate Impacts on Glaciers of the Southern Patagonian Icefield, Chile Scott Braddock, Kristin Schild, Raul Pereda, Felidor Paredes, and Fernando Iglesias Letelier September – October 2019 Funding Support: Dan & Betty Churchill Exploration Fund, American Alpine Club, and Geological Society of America

Beyond the Holarctic Comfort Zone: Thermoregulation in a Sundaland Rodent — Sarawak, Malaysia Ana Breit, Tal Kleinhause-Goldman Gedalyahou, Khairul Ikhwan, Marcellinus Stia Dominic, Andrew Tuen, and Danielle Levesque May – August 2019 Funding Support: Maine Space Grant Consortium graduate summer fellowship to AMB and UMaine start-up funding to DLL


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