Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions

Postdoctoral fellow Sam Roy meets with Maine’s Congressional delegation For Sam Roy, his second visit to Capitol Hill to promote the work of the Mitchell Center and gather support for the reauthorization of the Water Resources Research Act (WRRA) was the charm. He first went to Capitol Hill two years ago and had to learn […]

Sharon Klein, UMaine Associate Professor in the School of Economics, has been named the 2019 recipient of the Donald Harward Faculty Award for Service-Learning Excellence. The award is Maine Campus Compact’s most prestigious faculty award. The Donald Harward Faculty Award for Service-Learning Excellence recognizes faculty who integrate community or public service into the curriculum and work […]

Graduate student Brieanne Berry and undergraduate Michaela Murray honored, others named Distinguished Nominees On Sunday, April 28, 2019, the Friends of Dr. Edith M. Patch held the 14th annual Earth Day Celebration of the Life and Legacy of Dr. Edith Marion Patch, hosted at the Raymond H. Fogler Library. The eight students worked in part […]

The keynote address at this year’s Maine Sustainability & Water Conference was given by Bridie McGreavy from UMaine’s Dept. of Communication & Journalism and the Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions. In her talk, “Thinking with Rivers: Communication for conservation and sustainability”, McGreavy discusses how finding effective, creative, and inclusive ways to communicate for conservation and […]

Darren Ranco will discuss climate change impacts and adaptation priorities among Wabanaki First Nations in Maine on Thursday, May 16, at 4:10 p.m. at College of the Atlantic. The lecture, part of the Seminar in Climate Change 2019 Speaker Series, will be held in McCormick Lecture Hall. “Indigenous people will be impacted by climatic change […]

Highlighted Talk from the 2019 Maine Sustainability & Water Conference Community Food Councils as Vessels for Coordinated Food System Change Session: Sustainable Practices and Decision-Making Across Diverse Food Systems in Maine The development of sustainable food systems in a changing climate and evolving globalized society is an ever more critical challenge. Food systems of production, […]

Highlighted Talk from the 2019 Maine Sustainability & Water Conference Co-learning Sustainability Science & Policy: An interdisciplinary approach to food waste reduction Session: Developing Effective Sustainability Curricula In light of a myriad of environmental challenges, the need for high quality undergraduate curricula on topics of sustainability has never been more urgent. This session showcased new […]

Microplastics Stink! A Comparison of Microplastics Counts in Seal Scat Compared to Gull Scat High School Soleil Skehan, John Bapst Memorial High School Honorable Mention Pollution in air and waterways has been contaminating our environment for decades, threatening the stability of ecosystems across the globe. An increasingly growing concern, however, has risen surrounding microplastics, specifically […]

Using Industry for Change: Cellulose-based Food Packaging Products Undergraduate Shayla Rose Kleisinger, University of Maine First Place (tie) Through an Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Research Collaborative (IURC) grant from the University of Maine and with Diana Davis Spencer Foundation funding through the Mitchell Center’s Partnership for a Sustainable Maine project, Shayla Rose Kleisinger is investigating how alternative food-packaging […]

Quantifying Tidally Driven Transport in the Jordan River Estuary Undergraduate Gwyneth Roberts, University of Maine Honorable Mention Pollution events in tidal estuaries can wreak havoc on aquaculture operations, leading to closures of areas for weeks at a time and a significant loss of revenue. These pollution events are inherently linked to the dynamics of the […]