Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions

Linda Silka, Senior Fellow at the Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions, is the recipient of UMaine’s 2018 Rising Tide Career Recognition Award and was honored Wednesday, May 9, 2018 in Stodder Hall. Throughout her career, Silka has sought to translate knowledge into action by engaging academic institutions and diverse stakeholders to solve persistent and emerging sustainability challenges. A social […]

Dear Colleagues, I am very sorry to share the news that Bob Kates died on Saturday at the age of 89*. As many of you know, we were incredibly fortunate that Bob agreed to chair our Science Advisory Board during the 5-year, $20 million Sustainability Solutions Initiative grant that led to the creation of the […]

Through a generous grant from the Diana Davis Spencer Foundation, the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions is providing invaluable support for twelve Diana Davis Spencer Scholars to conduct research on two sustainability projects designed to help develop skills in entrepreneurship, teamwork, leadership and problem-solving. While one group of Diana Davis Spencer Scholars […]

A Mitchell Center project expands community resilience through citizen science, outreach, and education Master’s student Parker Gassett presented a poster at the 2018 Maine Sustainability and Water Conference titled  “Northeast Citizen Science for Coastal Acidification.” The poster detailed work being done by the Mitchell Center-funded project Ocean and Coastal Acidification in Maine. The project is […]

Third-year UMaine ecology and environmental science major Michaela Murray took first place for her poster “Uncovering the Current National Perceptions of Aquaculture Practices” at the 2018 Maine Sustainability and Water Conference (MSWC) held March 29 at the August Civic Center in Augusta, Maine. The work is the result of research she’s been doing for the […]

Mitchell Center researchers Aaron Weiskittel, Cindy Isenhour, Sharon Klein, Laura Rickard, and Balu Nayak are among twenty-one University of Maine faculty who recently received tenure and/or promotion. Weiskittel, of the College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture, was promoted to professor of Forest Biometrics and Modeling in the School of Forest Resources where he is […]

Mitchell Center researchers Aaron Weiskittel, Cindy Isenhour, Sharon Klein, Laura Rickard, and Balu Nayak are among twenty-one University of Maine faculty who recently received tenure and/or promotion. Weiskittel, of the College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture, was promoted to professor. Isenhour and Rickard, of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Klein and […]

Orono, Maine — From sessions on religious and ethical respect for water resources, rivers and fish passage, to building resilience to sea level rise and citizen science, the 2018 Maine Sustainability & Water Conference March 29 at the Augusta Civic Center will feature an expanded agenda on urgent topics affecting Maine, New England, the country […]

2018 Maine Sustainability and Water Conference Session Overview: Religious and Ethical Respect for Water Resources The panel will discuss religious and ethical respect for water resources that are rooted in tradition and reinforced by storytelling. Indigenous people such as the Penobscot and Passamaquoddy have strong historical, ethical and spiritual connections to water resources. Other traditions […]

2018 Maine Sustainability and Water Conference: Session Overview: Stakeholders and Sustainability As part of the Stakeholders and Sustainability session, Linda Silka, Senior Fellow at the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainable Solutions, UMaine, will wrap up the morning session on citizen science with her talk, “What We Can Learn from the Multiple Citizen Science […]