Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions

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 […]

June 5, 1-2:30 pm, online, free, Pre-register. During this Ash Protection Collaboration Across Wabanakik (APCAW) free online webinar, researchers will discuss their current efforts to study ash resilience in the face of emerald ash borer (EAB). A panel of Forest Service and genetic researchers will introduce current information about the spread of EAB in the Northeast, […]

In a Maine Public radio show aired on May 17, Food Rescue MAINE team leader Susanne Lee discusses how food waste is a climate problem and what some Mainers are doing to control food waste by making better use of leftovers. “In the U.S., 30% to 40% of food is wasted. The EPA estimates that […]

Describing the resilience to major economic, ecological and climate change by rural communities across northern New England and New York through qualitative and quantitative data is the objective of a new report written by University of Maine researchers Adam Daigneault and Aaron Weiskittel and their colleagues. The project team and partners will present key findings […]