Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions

On July 19, Mitchell Center Faculty Fellow Rachel Schattman told a Congressional committee about successful efforts led by UMaine to understand and support farmers to adopt sustainable practices that will make their small businesses and our nation’s food supply more resilient for the future. Schattman, an assistant professor of sustainable agriculture in the School of […]

Interested community members are invited to join researchers and local students at the University of Maine Darling Marine Center for a conversation about emerging results of an ongoing community science program in the Damariscotta River estuary. The conversation will focus on the results from the first full year of the community science program studying shellfish […]

Mitchell Center Senior Fellow Linda Silka will moderate a SPSSI UN panel on The Challenges of Data Disaggregation to Eliminate Systemic Racism and Related Discriminations in the Implementation of the SDGs and Recovery from the COVID-19 Pandemic on Thursday July 14, 2022. SPSSI and APA, in partnership with missions to the United Nations (UN), nongovernmental […]

Michell Center faculty fellows Michael Haedicke, associate professor of sociology, and Jean MacRae, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, wrote an opinion piece for the Bangor Daily News about how Maine needs to do more than ban the agricultural use of wastewater sludge to limit people’s exposure to PFAS. Haedicke and MacRae explained that […]

In a recent article, Rachel Schattman, a University of Maine assistant professor of sustainable agriculture and Mitchell Center Faculty Fellow, spoke with Centralmaine.com about McCain Foods’ plan to power 50% of its Easton, Maine potato processing plant with five community solar gardens. The effort is part of an overall attempt to completely power all of […]

A June presentation at Maine Audubon Society’s Gilsland Farm in Falmouth by John Daigle and his Ph.D. students was featured in an article in Portland Press Herald and Centralmaine.com. Daigle is a professor in the School of Forest Resources and a Mitchell Center Faculty Fellow. The article, about the threats the emerald ash borer poses […]

Winter cold may not be what’s keeping ticks from spreading north in Maine, a new University of Maine study co-authored by Allison Gardner finds. Gardner is an assistant professor of arthropod vector biology and Mitchell Center Faculty Fellow. The research shows that blacklegged tick nymphs are able to survive inhospitably cold winter temperatures with insulation […]

Kati Corlew is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Faculty Coordinator of Civic Engagement at the University of Maine Augusta, Bangor campus. Corlew also leads the community engagement component of the Barracuda project, an NSF EPSCoR RII Track-2 grant led by the Mitchell Center’s Brian McGill. The project aims to understand the species adaptation process […]

In July and August high school students will have an opportunity to learn about marine ecology while getting muddy in the Damariscotta River estuary. A research team based at the Darling Marine Center is inviting high school students to participate in shellfish surveys as part of an ongoing community science research program. Students accepted into […]

Susanne Lee, faculty fellow at the Mitchell Center, recently spoke to Popular Science about compost management. Lee emphasized that although the environment may not always be on the top of everyone’s mind, saving money probably is. Sending less waste to the dump, and therefore lowering the amount spent on solid waste management saves taxpayers money. […]