Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions

Native American ecological knowledge and western science will be integrated in some University of Maine science courses, with the goal of implementing the methods nationwide. With a $300,000 National Science Foundation grant, tribal and UMaine collaborators, including project leader and Mitchell Center Faculty Fellow Darren Ranco, will develop science courses that utilize Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and western […]

Sustainability entrepreneur Tony Grassi brought an historic Maine mill back to life One of the first things Tony Grassi will do when he gives his Monday, October 23 Mitchell Center Sustainability Talk is make a slight adjustment to the talk’s title, “Build it and they will come.” “I’m going to start my talk with a […]

Bridie McGreavy and Sam Roy represent the Mitchell Center at International Conference At the end of August, Mitchell Center Postdoctoral Fellow Sam Roy and Assistant Professor of Communication and Journalism and Mitchell Center Faculty Fellow Bridie McGreavy journeyed to Stockholm, Sweden to take part in Resilience 2017: Resilience Frontiers for Global Sustainability—a three-day, multidisciplinary international […]

The Future of Dams project held an All-Team Meeting at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)—a partner institution on the project—at the end of September. Below, Mitchell Center team members, postdoctoral researcher Sam Roy and Ph.D. student Tyler Quiring, provide brief highlights from three of the meeting’s break-out groups— Model/Data Integration (Roy) and Collaborative […]

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)