Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions

UMaine News reported on May 11 that Jean MacRae, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and Mitchell Center faculty fellow, was one of three UMaine faculty to receive Presidential Awards this spring. Jean is part of the Mitchell Center’s Materials Management Team where she leads a project researching the risk of contaminants when recovering […]

The Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions is seeking a Graduate Research Assistant (RA) to assist with an evaluation of equity issues for the Maine Climate Council. This is a short-term position starting in mid-June and ending in mid-September 2020 with a stipend of $1,917 per month (20 hours/week). The RA will be […]

A recent article by Mitchell Center Director David Hart and Senior Fellow Linda Silka tells the story of the decade-long effort to grow UMaine’s capacities in stakeholder-engaged, solutions-driven, interdisciplinary research. The invited article appears in Issues in Science and Technology, the policy forum of the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. “Rebuilding the Ivory […]

Alice Kelley, a geoarchaeologist in UMaine’s Climate Change Institute and Department of Earth and Climate Sciences, and Bonnie Newsom, assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology, recently published articles in a special feature of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in collaboration with several other researchers, as reported by UMaine News on April […]

Sara McBride, a master’s student in the Ecology and Environmental Sciences Program whose research on tick-borne disease ecology is part of a project led by Sandra De Urioste-Stone and Allison Gardner, has received a 2020 Edith Patch Award. McBride’s research integrates fieldwork, pathogen testing, and spatial analysis and she has created a risk map for […]

For many graduate students, one of the most important milestones in their studies is the presentation of a thesis or dissertation on their research. During the past several weeks, two graduate students working on Mitchell Center projects have successfully defended their doctoral dissertations, and one successfully defended her master’s thesis. On April 1, Emma Fox, […]

As ticks are on the rise in Maine, a UMaine project is investigating how to better protect Maine’s landowners, forest workers, and recreationists from tick-borne diseases. The Maine Forest Tick Survey is a multi-year, citizen-science project researching how forest management practices, such as if and when timber is harvested, affect the incidence of ticks and […]

UMaine News reported April 1 on a new project by Adam Daigneault, Mitchell Center faculty fellow, and UMaine colleagues that focuses on community resilience in northern border towns. These communities often rely heavily on forestry and forest products and can be rocked by mill closures, environmental shifts, and other changes. Daigneault’s work in the Katahdin […]

The following three awards for the 2020 Maine Water Resources Research Institute (WRRI) Competitive Grants program have been announced: Farms and Rivers for the Future: Advancing Partnerships in the Meduxnekeag Watershed Team Leader: Bridie McGreavy, Assistant Professor, Communication and Journalism, UMaine, and Mitchell Center Faculty Fellow Data-driven support for adaptive pollution-based closure decisions in shellfish […]

Josh Stoll, Mitchell Center faculty fellow and assistant professor of marine policy at the University of Maine, is featured in a March 25 UMaine News article about Local Catch Network, “a community of fishermen, researchers and consumers committed to providing local, healthful, low-impact and economically sustainable seafood directly from harvesters.” During the coronavirus pandemic, more people […]