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The Libby Lecture in Natural Resource Policy was established at the University of Maine Foundation in 2016 with a gift from Lawrence W. Libby and Lois Murdock Libby. The annual lecture is a collaborative event coordinated by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture. If you have any questions about the lecture or want more information, please contact: libby-lecture-group@maine.edu. 

2022 Libby Lecture "Smarter logging for good: Sustainable, low-impact forestry as a natural climate solution" by Peter Ellis, Global Director of Climate Science for the Nature Conservancy
A portrait of Peter Ellis with an aerial image of a forest in the background.

2021 Libby Lecture "Improving Water Quality: Are Economics and the Environment Always at Odds?" by Dr. Catherine Kling, Tisch University Professor in the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management and Faculty Director at the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future at Cornell University
portrait of catherine kling imposed on a photo of a river

2018 Libby Lecture

"Air Pollution in a Changing World: Designing Research for Impact" by Dr. Noelle Eckley Selin, Associate Professor in the Institute for Data, Systems and Society and the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2017 Libby Lecture

"Uncertainty, Learning, and a Framework for the Integration of Science and Policy," by Byron Kenneth Williams, Executive Director of The Wildlife Society
photo of byron kenneth williams over waves crashing

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