The Agassiz Symposium is the annual research meeting of the Climate Change Institute. The meeting was held on May 20-21, 2002 at the Soderberg Center on the campus of the University of Maine.
Faculty, staff and students contributed abstracts covering the range of topics studied in the Institute, including archeology and anthropology, paleoecology, glacial geology, marine geology, climatology and glaciology. In addition to oral presentations, there were several research posters on display throughout the meeting.
The keynote speaker was Karl Turekian from Yale University. His speech wass titled "Cosmogenic nuclides as environmental and climate tracers."