Miner's work on building climate resilience policy featured on local television
A University of Maine PhD Candidate is developing policy to build climate resilience.
Kimberley Miner is studying earth and climate sciences in Orono.
She’s analyzing the threat of pesticides and organic pollutants in glaciers.
After completing her dissertation, Miner hopes to develop a model that analyzes the risk of downstream communities which could be impacted by polluted glacial melt waters.
“So I’m interested in looking at the cascading climate impacts that aren’t necessarily foreseen,” said Miner. “So for example, things like DDT and PCB’s that are trapped in glaciers, if they melt out it’s possible that we will not have high-quality glacial melt water before we even lose the reserves of glaciers that we have. So it’s something that we need to understand and look at before it becomes a problem.”
Miner is a Department of Defense Scholar and has a year and a half left of her four year program at U-Maine.
