2026 Maine Sustainability & Water Conference

The 2026 conference is scheduled to take place on Thursday, March 26 at the Augusta Civic Center, Augusta, Maine. Please check back for details or sign up for the Mitchell Center’s e-newsletter.

Request for Sessions

The Maine Sustainability & Water Conference committee wants your input to bring some new and exciting sessions to the 2026 conference.

If you would like to help organize a session for the conference, please submit the information outlined below to umgmc@maine.edu no later than Friday, November 14.

  • Session title
  • Description – Brief paragraph (150-200 words) describing the focus of the session
  • Session Chairs – Preference is for co-chairs who represent different perspectives (e.g. science and management, academic and non-academic) on a session topic. We also encourage young career professionals to assist in organizing and co-chairing sessions.

The conference committee will select up to twelve sessions based on your suggestions and those received in the 2025 conference evaluation to be included in the Call for Abstracts in mid-November.

We are looking forward to receiving your input.