Sarah Hammond traveled to Tanzania to experience a unique study abroad course that focused heavily on sustainability, being aware of environmental consciences and supporting the roots of local communities. The GIVE Volunteers program teaches its volunteers to invest in community-based tourism, which establishes long term sustainable benefits for local communities. The idea of supporting your neighbor was […]
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Costa Rica Study Abroad Program-Introduction Nestled among the foggy highlands of north-central Costa Rica sits the small town of San Ramón. With a population of around 10,000, San Ramón, located about forty minutes north of San José, the country’s capital, is well-established as a cultural hub. White, polished churches rise above bustling farmer’s markets on […]
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EES graduate students Hannah Webber, Elliot Johnston, and Hannah Middlestaedt and EES affiliated faculty Amanda Klemmer and Brian Olsen are part of an interdisciplinary team researching rockweed ecology. Three graduate students study rockweed, ‘a system of curiosity’
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EES Director, Dr. Sarah Nelson, gave a plenary lecture at last week’s meeting of the Organization of Biological Field Stations, held at the Schoodic Institute campus in Acadia National Park. The theme of the 53rd Annual Meeting was Partnerships and Collaborations. Nelson’s talk, with co-authors from National Park Service, United States Geological Survey, EES Faculty […]
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EES affiliated faculty member Sandra De Urioste-Stone, assistant professor of nature-based tourism, was recently awarded a $150K grant by the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture. The focus of the study is increasing understanding of the impacts of climate change on forest ecosystems, and on the industry and communities that […]
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Michaela Murray, a rising senior in EES, recently attended the joint conference of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society (AFHVS) and the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS) in Madison, Wisconsin. This year’s theme was “Agroecoprospect: The Politics of Integrating Values, Food, and Farming” and also featured dozens of presentations relating […]
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MaineBiz recently reported that a research project led by EES faculty affiliates Allison Gardner, an assistant professor of arthropod vector biology with the School of Biology and Ecology, and Carly Sponarski, an assistant professor of human dimensions of wildlife and fisheries conservation with the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Conservation Biology, has been awarded $1.17 […]
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Eos: Earth and Space Science News reported on a study led by Amanda Gavin, an ecology and environmental sciences graduate student at the University of Maine. The study investigated the effects of acid rain and climate change on freshwater lakes. The researchers analyzed a subset of high-elevation Maine lakes, which are more sensitive to environmental change […]
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Master’s student Elyse DeFranco was recently awarded a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS) from UMaine’s Canadian-American Center. She is spending the first weeks of summer in a French language immersion course at the Université Laval in Quebec City to prepare for her fieldwork for her Master’s thesis later this summer. She also received an […]
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Aly East, an EES undergraduate researcher, spent this past summer on the Schoodic Peninsula of Acadia National Park working on the Schoodic Ecosystem Services Project. This project seeks to estimate the changes in recreation, biodiversity, and carbon storage caused by new developments at Schoodic, and the project is led by EES faculty Kate Ruskin and […]
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