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Explorer goes to cold sites in 'The Age of Warming'
by Outspoken on Sat Jan 19, 2008 10:35 am
Explorer goes to cold sites in 'The Age of Warming'
By JOHN RICHARDSON
Portland Press Herald
It's a long way from Maine to the South Pole.
But the very bottom of the Earth is by no means the most remote place on the planet.
Ask Paul Mayewski. The University of Maine professor has earned a global reputation, for himself and the school, by going to some very cold and isolated places and coming home with discoveries about the planet and its atmosphere.
"There are plenty of places on Earth where we were the first team to ever go there," Mayewski said. "You get the chance to be on the forefront of adventure exploration, and also scientific exploration, by doing this stuff."
The director of UMaine's Climate Change Institute spoke this week during a brief break in Orono between his latest Antarctic expedition and a global gathering of scientists in England.
Mayewski is studying the planet's environment as it existed anywhere from 200 to 100,000 years ago. Over the past 40 years of adventures, Mayewski has pioneered the use of ice cores drilled from ancient glaciers to determine what the climate and the environment were like around the world long before there were thermometers.
"The ice cores are like buried meteorological stations and buried atmospheric stations. They give you so much information about the environment," he said.
Mayewski and the Orono-based institute were the first to raise evidence of abrupt climate changes from deep in the Earth's historical record, a finding that influences climate science worldwide.
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=163510&ac=PHnws
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By JOHN RICHARDSON
Portland Press Herald
It's a long way from Maine to the South Pole.
But the very bottom of the Earth is by no means the most remote place on the planet.
Ask Paul Mayewski. The University of Maine professor has earned a global reputation, for himself and the school, by going to some very cold and isolated places and coming home with discoveries about the planet and its atmosphere.
"There are plenty of places on Earth where we were the first team to ever go there," Mayewski said. "You get the chance to be on the forefront of adventure exploration, and also scientific exploration, by doing this stuff."
The director of UMaine's Climate Change Institute spoke this week during a brief break in Orono between his latest Antarctic expedition and a global gathering of scientists in England.
Mayewski is studying the planet's environment as it existed anywhere from 200 to 100,000 years ago. Over the past 40 years of adventures, Mayewski has pioneered the use of ice cores drilled from ancient glaciers to determine what the climate and the environment were like around the world long before there were thermometers.
"The ice cores are like buried meteorological stations and buried atmospheric stations. They give you so much information about the environment," he said.
Mayewski and the Orono-based institute were the first to raise evidence of abrupt climate changes from deep in the Earth's historical record, a finding that influences climate science worldwide.
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=163510&ac=PHnws
Courtesy Photo
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