Julie Brigham-Grette on PBS NOVA “Polar Extremes”

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Julie Brigham-Grette recently appeared on the NOVA special Polar Extremes, which takes viewers on an epic adventure through time at the polar extremes of our planet. In the episode Professor Brigham-Grette described her research on past climates drawn from long sediment cores from Lake El’gygytgyn in NE Russia. The interval from 1:03:18 to 1:08:00 focuses on this research. The 2 hour special premiered February 5, 2020. See it here.

Rob DeConto Taking Part in Historic UN Climate Policy Session

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This week, representatives of 195 member governments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are meeting at the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco with dozens of climate scientists who have prepared a draft “Summary for Policymakers” of their “Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC). ” Here read the UMass press release…

UMass Amherst Climate Researcher Raymond Bradley Receives High Honor from Canadian Society

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Internationally recognized climate scientist and Distinguished Professor Raymond S. Bradley at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has been elected an International Fellow in the Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences Division of the Academy of Science of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) for “major contributions to our understanding of the nature and causes of climate change.” Read more …