Ecology and Environmental Sciences

EES 475: Field Studies in Ecology (3 credits): PERU! Instructors:         Aram Calhoun, Mac Hunter, Lindsay Seward                                                         Study sunny South American tropical ecosystems over the cold, dark Maine winter. We will visit one of most diverse regions in the world in the western Amazon rainforest. We will zip-line through the canopy, canoe through flooded […]

Friday, September 26 at 12 p.m., 107 Norman Smith Hall Dan Murphy, University of Cincinnati Engaging Future Vulnerability and Adaptation Using Landscape-scale Iterative Scenario-Building Co-sponsors: Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions, Dept. of Anthropology, Climate Change Institute   Monday, October 20 at 3 p.m., 107 Norman Smith Hall Dave Owen, University of Maine School of Law […]

Friday, September 26 at 12 p.m., 107 Norman Smith Hall Dan Murphy, University of Cincinnati Engaging Future Vulnerability and Adaptation Using Landscape-scale Iterative Scenario-Building Co-sponsors: Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions, Dept. of Anthropology, Climate Change Institute   Monday, October 20 at 3 p.m., 107 Norman Smith Hall Dave Owen, University of Maine School of Law […]

Vernal Pool Conservation Monday, July 14th, 2014 A new article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) documents nearly 15 years of vernal pools research and management by the University of Maine’s Aram Calhoun who is leading an interdisciplinary team at the Sustainability Solutions Initiative (SSI), a program of the Sen. George […]

Dr. Robert Lilieholm was featured in a Bangor Daily News Op-Ed published July 11, 2014, “Bay to Baxter: As the Penobscot River changes, so must we”.  Dr. Lilieholm is  E.L. Giddings professor of forest policy at UMaine, and an EES faculty member. To read the Op-Ed: http://bangordailynews.com/2014/07/11/opinion/contributors/bay-to-baxter-as-the-penobscot-river-changes-so-must-we/?ref=search

EES is pleased to announce that Sarah Nelson, Associate Research Professor with the Senator George J. Mitchell Center and School of Forest Resources will join the EES staff for the 2014-2015 academic year. This fall Dr. Nelson will teach EES 117: Introduction to Ecology and Environmental Sciences. During the spring semester, Sarah will teach EES […]

The UMaine Graduate School recently instituted a policy such that all graduate students pursuing a thesis that are admitted as of September 2014 must include the one-credit course INT 601 Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) on their program of study. This course is also required for all current students funded by NSF, NIH and other […]

Syd Cheney, EES 2014 with a concentration in Ecosystem Ecology, has been selected as the 2014 recipient of the John F. Boyle Prize in Ecology and Environmental Sciences. The prize is issued each year to the top graduating senior in Ecology and Environmental Sciences. Syd began her college career at a small liberal arts college […]

Benjamin Blais, a fourth year student in Ecology and Environmental Sciences with a concentration in Sustainability, Environmental Policy, and Natural Resource Management and a minor in Renewable Energy Science and Technology , was selected as the first annual recipient of the Boyle Associates Scholarship. The Boyle Associates Scholarship was founded in 2013 to recognize meritorious undergraduates […]

Three EES students were awarded the Stantec Consulting Scholarship in recognition of their scholarly achievements. The Stantec Consulting Scholarship Fund was established at the University of Maine in 2012 with a gift from Stantec Consulting. The fund provides financial assistance to meritorious full-time undergraduate student(s) at the University of Maine who are majoring in Ecology […]