Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions

The Maine Legislature’s Joint Environment and Natural Resources Committee held a hearing on a handful of bills aimed at how to best regulate potential largescale metal mines in the state on March 20, 2017 and data from a Mitchell Center-funded project will be submitted to aid the legislative committee’s deliberations on the matter. Currently, there […]

Three years of investigation by the New England Sustainability Consortium’s Safe Beaches & Shellfish project has resulted in recommendations that will help improve the state’s shellfish co-management system. Assistant professor Bridie McGreavy and Mitchell Center research associate Sara Randall recently presented their findings to an audience of industry members and managers at the Maine Fishermen’s […]

For the week of March 6-10, faculty, instructors, and students met at the Mitchell Center for a Conservation Planning course coordinated by Mitchell Center Faculty Fellows Aram Calhoun and Malcolm Hunter. The spring break intensive course—Ecology and Environmental Sciences (EES 598) “Designing and managing conservation projects”— focused on “sustainability planning with interdisciplinary groups and was […]

Ph.D. student Brie Berry explores Maine’s reuse economy… Before moving to Brooklyn, New York in 2008, Brie Berry lived for two years in a rural area of the West African Republic of Mali as a Peace Corps volunteer. And it was her experience in Mali that provided Berry with the foundation of the future research […]

UMaine senior has “transformative” experience through the Mitchell Center and Honors College… Brady Davis is most certainly not unique in having flourished as a student after being awarded a Mitchell Scholarship upon graduating from Freeport High School in 2013. But it is doubtful a better ambassador for the Mitchell Institute and its namesake, Senator George […]

Mitchell Center Senior Fellow Linda Silka, a social and community psychologist by training, is part of the group Infrastructure and Climate Network (ICNet) comprised of over 60 academics, students, and practitioners dedicated to accelerating climate science and engineering research in the Northeastern United States. Established in October 2012 with support from the National Science Foundation, ICNet focuses […]

Maine-based journalist and author Murray Carpenter kicks off the Spring 2017  Mitchell Center Seminar series on January 23…  Maine-based journalist and author Murray Carpenter has long been drawn to environmental and science stories and, in particular, those about fisheries and amphibians. Among other topics, the Belfast resident and freelance writer will tell some fish and […]

2016 Award Categories Outstanding contribution toward the development of a solution by a research team  A team that has helped link knowledge with action to effectively contribute to a real-world solutions  Interdisciplinary Research Team Award for Outstanding Progress on “The Road to Solutions” New England Sustainability Cooperative (NEST) Decision Support Systems Team — Sean Smith, Brian […]

Dam removal expert Laura Wildman closes out the 2016 Mitchell Center Speaker Series… Upon introducing Laura Wildman—last week’s speaker for the Mitchell Center’s final Fall 2016 Seminar Series talk—David Hart, director of the Mitchell Center and lead scientist on the center’s Future of Dams project, paraphrased the title of the bestselling 1989 book “All I Really […]

December 15, 2016 ORONO — Cooperation in groups of resource users may be key to sustaining the environment, according to a new study using mathematical and computational modeling. Timothy Waring, an associate professor at the University of Maine, is the lead developer of the new model that simulates how societies with different social structures and […]