Journey Into Climate follows five decades and counting of expeditions filled with adventure, exploration, discovery, and contributions to the understanding of climate change. The story is told through the personal experiences of the internationally acclaimed glaciologist, climate scientist, and polar explorer Paul Andrew Mayewski. He and his teams have traveled throughout Antarctica, the Himalayas, Greenland, the Andes, and the Southern Ocean in search of answers to how and why climate changes. By living and working in some of earth’s most remote places, their journey documents the role played by past climate changes on the course of civilization. Most importantly it sheds light on science’s transition from a gradualist to a dynamic, fast changing physical and chemical climate system in which human activity goes from relatively minor to remarkably consequential. The purpose of the journey is now clear — we have entered the age of climate decision, and our actions will define the course of civilization and the health of our planet.

Bio-

Dr. Paul Andrew Mayewski is an internationally acclaimed glaciologist, climate scientist, polar explorer and director of the multidisciplinary Climate Change Institute and Distinguished Professor in the School of Earth Sciences, School of Marine Sciences, School of Policy and International Affairs, Business School and Law School, all at the University of Maine. Paul was born in Scotland where he was introduced to hiking very early in life. He has thus far led more than sixty expeditions to the remotest polar and high elevation reaches of the planet and has received many prestigious national and international awards including the inaugural medal for Excellence in Antarctic Research from a field of 45 countries and all disciplines and the Explorers Club Lowell Thomas Medal, for his and his contributions to science including the discovery of abrupt climate change driven by atmospheric circulation, human impacts on the chemistry of the atmosphere, impacts of climate change on humans and the ecosystem and for achievements in exploration into uncharted regions of Antarctica, thousands of kilometers of polar traversing and numerous first ascents of mountains all to gain scientific knowledge. Paul is the first person to develop and lead prominent multi-disciplinary climate research programs at the three poles (Greenland (25 US institutions), the International Trans Antarctic Expedition (21 countries) and the Himalayas/Tibetan Plateau (most recently the 2019 National Geographic and Rolex Perpetual Planet Mt. Everest Expedition – 34 international researchers). He has more than 500 scientific publications, hundreds of popular and scientific lectures worldwide, two popular books “The Ice Chronicles” and “Journey Into Climate”, and has appeared hundreds of times in media such as: the New York and LA Times, NOVA, NPR, BBC, CBS 60 Minutes and the Emmy Award Winning “Years of Living Dangerously”.