Professor, Dept. of Earth Sciences
Climate Change Institute
University of Maine
133 Sawyer Environmental
Research Center
Orono, ME 04469
207-581-3019 Ph
207-581-1203 Fax
paul.mayewski at maine.edu
My primary research interests are climate change and change in the chemistry of the atmosphere. I have pursued these interests by collecting snow samples and ice cores from throughout Antarctica, the Arctic, Andes, New Zealand and the Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau.
Some of my current research activities include: The International Trans Antarctic Scientific Expedition, a reconstruction of Antarctic climate and chemistry of the atmosphere over the last 200 years. Ice coring activities on Mt. Everest, Mt. Logan (Yukon Territory) and Patagonia. Calibration of ice core records using instrumental records of sea level pressure to investigate the past behavior of ENSO, the North Atlantic, Oscillation, the Indian Monsoon and the Antarctic Ocilation.
Recipient of the 2007 Lowell Thomas Medal, Explorer's Club
The Ice Chronicles: The Quest to Understand Global Climate Change
Paul Mayewski and Frank White: University Press of New England (2002).
Mayewski, P.A., Jeschke, P.A., and Pregent, G., 1980, Himalayan and Trans-Himalayan glacier fluctuations and the South Asian monsoon record, Arctic and Alpine Research 12(2): 171-182.
Mayewski, P.A., Lyons, W.B., Smith, G., Ahmad, N. and Pourchet, M., 1984, Interpretation of the chemical and physical time-series retrieved from Sentik Glacier, Ladakh Himalaya, India, Journal of Glaciology 30(104): 66-76.
Mayewski, P.A., Lyons, W.B., Spencer, M.J., Twickler, M.S., Koci, B. Dansgaard, Davidson, C. and Honrath, R., 1986, Sulfate and nitrate concentrations from a South Greenland ice core, Science 232: 975-977.
Mayewski, P.A., Lyons, W.B., Spencer, M.J., Twickler, M.S., Buck, C.F. and Whitlow, S., 1990, An ice core record of atmospheric response to anthropogenic sulphate and nitrate, Nature 346(6284): 554-556.
Mayewski, P.A., Meeker, L.D., Morrison, M.C. Twickler, M.S., Whitlow, S., K.K. Ferland, D. A,. Meese, Legrand, M.R. and Steffenson, J.P., 1993, Greenland ice core "signal" characteristics: An expanded view of climate change, Jour. Geophys. Res. 98 (D7): 12,839-12,847.
Mayewski, P.A., Meeker, L.D., Whitlow, S., Twickler, M.S., Morrison, M.C., Alley, R.B., Bloomfield, P. and Taylor, K., 1993, The atmosphere during the Younger Dryas, Science 261: 195-197.
Mayewski, P.A., Buckland, P.C., Edwards, K.J., Meeker, L.D., O'Brien, S.O. and Buckland, P., 1996, Climate change events as seen in the Greenland ice core (GISP2): Implications for the Mesolithic of Scotland, The Early Prehistory of Scotland, Edinburgh University Press, Scotland, 74-83.
Legrand, M. and Mayewski, P.A., 1997, Glaciochemistry of polar ice cores: A review, Reviews of Geophysics 35, 219-143.
O'Brien, S.R., Mayewski, P.A., Meeker, L.D., Meese, D.A., Twickler, M.S. and Whitlow, S.I., 1996, Complexity of Holocene climate as reconstructed from a Greenland ice core, Science 270, 1962-1964.
Mayewski, P.A., Twickler, M.S., Whitlow, S.I., Meeker, L.D., Yang, Q., Thomas, J., Kreutz, K., Grootes, P., Morse, D., Steig, E. and Waddington, E.D., 1996, Climate change during the last deglaciation in Antarctica, Science 272, 1636-1638.
Mayewski, P.A., Meeker, L.D., Twickler, M.S., Whitlow, S.I., Yang, Q., Lyons,W.B. and Prentice, M., 1997, Major features and forcing of high latitude northern hemisphere atmospheric circulation over the last 110,000 years, Journal of Geophysical Research 102, C12, 26,345-26,366.
Stager, J.C. and Mayewski, P.A., 1997, Abrupt mid-Holocene climatic transitions registered at the equator and the poles, Science 276, 1834-1836.
Mayewski, P.A. and Barron, E., 1999, Paleoclimate Overview, Chapter 6, in Global Environmental Change: Research Pathways for the Next Decade, National Research Council, Committee on Global Change Research, National Research Council, 616 pages.
Meyerson, E.A., Mayewski, P.A., Whitlow, S.I., Meeker, L.D.and Kreutz, K.J. and Twickler, M.S., 2002, The extratropical expression of ENSO recorded in a South Pole glaciochemical time series, Annals of Glaciology 35, 430-436.
Meeker, L.D. and Mayewski, P.A., 2002, A 1400 year long record of atmospheric circulation over the North Atlantic and Asia, The Holocene 12 (3), 257-266.
Mayewski, P.A., K. A. Maasch, J.W.C. White, E. Meyerson, I. Goodwin, V.I. Morgan., T. van Ommen, M.A.J. Curran, J. Souney, and K. Kreutz, 2004, A 700 year record of Southern Hemisphere extra-tropical climate variability, Annals of Glaciology 39, 127-132.
Mayewski, P.A., Rohling, E., Stager, C., Karlén, K., Maasch, K., Meeker, L.D., Meyerson, E., Gasse, F., van Kreveld, S., Holmgren, K., Lee-Thorp, J., Rosqvist, G., Rack, F., Staubwasser, M., and Schneider, R., 2004, Holocene climate variability, Quaternary Research, Quaternary Research 62, 243-255.
Kang, S., Mayewski, P.A., Qin, D., Yan, Y., Hou, S., Zhang, D., Ren, J. and Kreutz, K., 2002, Glaciochemical records from a Mt. Everest ice core: Relationship to atmospheric circulation over Asia, Atmospheric Environment 36, 3351-3361.
Maasch, K., Mayewski, P.A., Rohling, E., Stager, C., Karlén, K., Meeker, L.D., and Meyerson, E., 2005, Climate of the past 2000 years, Geografiska Annaler 87A (1), 7-15.