The Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation (CERF) announced that associate professors Lauren Ross and Sean Smith received the 2023 Donald W. Pritchard Outstanding Physical Oceanography Paper Award for “Coastal Hydrodynamics and Timescales in Meso-Macrotidal Estuaries in the Gulf of Maine: A Model Study.” Ross and Smith co-authored the paper with Sohaib Alahmed, former UMaine student […]

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has granted $1.5 million to the University of Maine and collaborators to carry out a series of programs that will educate and aid farmers in climate adaptation and mitigation. Agricultural producers anticipate an onslaught of challenges due to climate change, such as increases in flooding, drought, pest and disease […]

A new collaborative research project led by the University of Maine called STORM: Data-Driven Approaches for Secure Electric Grids in Communities Disproportionately Impacted by Climate Change, has been awarded $6 million from the National Science Foundation. Over the next five years, the project team will conduct studies and create new tools that will grow research […]

Lauren Ross’s research on the physics of estuaries has brought her all over the world, from France to Frenchman Bay along Mount Desert Island. With her recently-awarded Fulbright, Ross will lead a team of scientists to Chile to look at these transition points between freshwater rivers and the salty sea in a place where so […]

The Bangor Daily News featured a partnership between University of Maine researchers and Maine organic farmer Sue Hunter, whose land in Unity, Maine, is highly contaminated with toxic PFAS, to determine how much or how little specific crops absorb the toxins. The research is focusing on three specific areas — how PFAS are absorbed by […]

Professor Brian McGill was awarded the Humboldt Research Award, one of the most prestigious scientific honors in Germany. McGill holds a joint appointment in UMaine’s School of Biology & Ecology and the Mitchell Center. The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation awards the prize annually to internationally-renowned scientists who reside outside of Germany. In addition to the […]

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) has awarded $650,000 to a University of Maine project investigating the impacts of climate change on wild blueberry ecosystems and economics. Rachel Schattman, Assistant professor of Sustainable Agriculture at the School of Food and Agriculture and Mitchell Center Faculty Fellow, is the […]

Darren Ranco, professor of anthropology, chair of Native American Programs and faculty fellow at the Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine, was named a 2023 Ford Foundation Senior Fellow. Ranco’s fellowship will focus on a project titled “Decolonizing Land Relations in the Dawnland: Landback and Rematriation Across Wabanakik.” The project is […]

A blog post in “Integration and Implementation Insights” by Mitchell Center authors David Hart, Bridie McGreavy, Anthony Sutton, Gabrielle Hillyer and Darren Ranco presents some of the key lessons learned for strengthening community-university partnerships. The blog is based on a recent article by the same authors that was published in Issues in Science and Technology […]

Mitchell Center faculty fellows Michael Haedicke, UMaine associate professor of sociology, and Jean MacRae, UMaine, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, published a recent OpEd in the Bangor Daily News titled “Producers and regulators must finalize PFAS registry.” The OpEd covers Maine’s response to the PFAS crisis and the importance of not delaying the […]