Climate Scientist & Student Brave Ultra Cold Freezer Ice Cream Challenge | BRAIN FREEZE

Few can say they've eaten ice cream inside a freezer; even fewer can claim they've eaten Maine lobster ice cream surrounded by 10,000-year-old ice cores in a walk-in freezer maintained at -20ºC.

BRAIN FREEZE took its ice cream challenge to the Climate Change Institute, where Karl Kreutz, professor and Director of the School of Earth and Climate Sciences, and professor at the Climate Change Institute, alongside his undergraduate student Shannon Thompson, an Ecology & Environmental Science major, tackled our ice-cold questions.

Shannon has had the chance to travel with Dr. Kreutz to Alaska during the Sea-to-Sky (ERS410) capstone course at UMaine, where students explore a wide range of environments—from the open ocean ("sea") to glaciers and atmospheric processes ("sky").

Learn more about Dr. Kreutz and Shannon as they face our increasingly challenging assortment of ice creams featuring classic Maine flavors.

If you're interested in learning more about UMaine's Earth Science Department and the Climate Change Institute click on over to  https://elh.umaine.edu/  or   https://climatechange.umaine.edu/

For more about our School of Food and Agriculture, especially our Food Science program serve yourself a helping of this:  https://umaine.edu/foodandagriculture/

VIDEO CREDITS:

GUESTS
Karl Kreutz
Shannon Thompson

UNIVERSITY OF MAINE MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS
Producers: Ron Lisnet & Adam Küykendall
Director: Adam Küykendall
Host: Izzy Bouchard
Audio: Izzy Bouchard, Adam Küykendall, Ron Lisnet
Videographers: Izzy Bouchard, Adam Küykendall, Ron Lisnet
Editors: Izzy Bouchard, Adam Küykendall

BRAIN FREEZE is produced by The Division of Marketing & Communications, University of Maine


ICE CREAM DEVELOPMENT
Rob Dumas, Food Science Innovation Coordinator and Facility Manager
Caitlin Hillery
Food Science Club
Mallory Perry
Alex Pierce
Ashwini Kreigh-McNeal
McKenna Smart


SPECIAL THANKS
Climate Change Institute
Paul Mayewski, Director
Betty Lee, Assistant Director
Mariusz Potocki (additional footage)
Aaron Putnam (additional footage)
Seth Campbell (additional footage)
Elena Korotkikh, Laboratory Manager (freezer access)


PRIZES PROVIDED BY
UMaine Bookstore
Colleen Gagnon, Manager of Retail Services


ADDITIONAL THANKS
Andrew Bergeron, Chemical Safety Officer & Chemical Stores Manager (Department of Chemistry)
Patrick Wine
Desirée Butterfield-Nagy, Special Collections & Project Department


ARCHIVAL MATERIALS

Rachel Carson, photo taken by Edwin Gray at Woods Hole, Mass. in 1950.
Source: Linda Lear Center for Special Collections and Archives, Connecticut College

Ernest Shackleton, from the 1920 documentary film Endurance shot by Frank Hurley (public domain).  Source:  Archive.org

Harold W. Borns, Jr., on the Tufts University Antarctic Expedition, 1960-61

Harold W. Borns, Jr., University of Maine Antarctic Expedition, 1977-78. S. A. Norton; R.C. Glen; Harold W. Borns, Jr.,; and J. S. Kite

Harold W. Borns, Jr., University of Maine Antarctic Expedition, 1968-69 Richard E. Dodge, A. 1969; William S. Brown, A. 1969; Bradford A. Hall, A. 1955; and Harold W. Borns.

00:00 Introduction
00:17 Climate Change Institute Introduction
00:53 Guest Introductions
01:23 Ice Breakers
02:50 Sample Questions: Flavor 1
06:18 Sample Questions: Flavor 2
07:56 Sample Questions: Flavor 3
09:28 Sample Questions: Flavor 4
10:40 Sample Questions: Flavor 5
13:39 Flash Freeze

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