BANGOR DAILY NEWS • April 1, 2020
Former University of Maine geology professor Harold W. Borns Jr., who has a glacier in Antarctica named after him and founded what is now known as UMaine’s Climate Change Institute, died on March 17. Borns, known to friends as “Hal,” retired from UMaine in 2004 after teaching there for 50 years. Borns died at age 92 after several months of declining health. He was an expert in glacial geology. From 1988 to 1990, he served as director of the Polar Glaciology Program for the U.S. National Science Foundation.