Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions

Newly arrived Master’s student Melissa Flye will be working on the Mitchell Center’s Getting Over the Dam and Future of Dams projects. Melissa is a Maine native who received her B.S. in wildlife ecology from UMaine. After spending two years working on anadromous fisheries research projects for the state and private consulting firms, she has […]

ORONO, Maine — Increasing environmental uncertainty coupled with rapidly changing market conditions in the Gulf of Maine raise important questions about the ability of Maine’s commercial fishermen to adapt. How resilient is the industry to these shifting waters? Who is best positioned to adapt and who is most vulnerable? “We have started to explore these […]

ORONO, MAINE – The National Science Foundation has awarded a one-year, $100,000 grant for continuing a University of Maine citizen-science project aimed at protecting lake water quality in the state. The NSF grant will help extend the project, which began in 2015 with funding from UMaine’s Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions, into […]

University of Maine Darling Marine Center | Walpole, Maine | September 27-28, 2017 A workshop co-organized by Joshua Stoll, Assistant Research Professor, School of Marine Sciences, and Heather Leslie, Associate Professor of Marine Sciences and Director, Darling Marine Center. Connecting critical concepts in marine conservation and management Ecosystem-based fisheries management (EBFM) has been widely touted as the future […]

Food waste presents a significant sustainability challenge across the United States (40 percent of all food produced in the U.S. is wasted), but particularly in Maine where many are food insecure (In 2016 more than 200,000 Mainers were food insecure, including 60,000 children). Working to prevent food waste provides opportunities to address multiple sustainability challenges […]

With funds supplied by the Mitchell Center, Ph.D. candidate Brianne Du Clos has completed work on “BeeMapper” — a tool that will help farmers develop pollination management plans. Read more… See also an article in the Portland Press Herald (7/23/2017)

A $500,000 grant to study small- and medium-scale honey and maple syrup production in Maine is awarded to College of the Atlantic and the University of Maine by the United States Department of Agriculture. The grant creates opportunities for undergraduate students to develop their research skills as part of a Sustainable Food Systems Research Collaborative (SFSRC). […]

University of Maine researchers have developed a tool called “BeeMapper” that will allow blueberry growers to assess the predicted wild bee abundance in the landscape surrounding their crop fields. They will debut and demonstrate the computer-based tool on Wednesday, July 19 at the UMaine Cooperative Extension annual Wild Blueberry Summer Field Day at Blueberry Hill […]

Research by Mitchell Center Fellows Mac Hunter and Aram Calhoun was recently featured in Washington Post. Read more…

Good to his word, Aaron Strong returned to Maine to tackle sustainability challenges After completing his Ph.D. in environment and resources at Stanford with an eye trained on the human dimensions of sustainability challenges, Aaron Strong, the son of two Bates College professors and now a UMaine School of Marine Sciences assistant professor of marine […]