Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions

The University of Maine Darling Marine Center (DMC) is launching a project to enhance the sustainability of kelp aquaculture. With support from the William Procter Scientific Innovation Fund, the two-year research and commercialization project will leverage the UMaine Aquaculture Experimental Station sea farm adjacent to DMC. “Farmers need farm designs that make efficient use of […]

New England’s droughts in 2016, 2020 and 2022 offer a preview of farming amid a changing climate. This has caused farmers who rely on rainfall to seek more reliable water sources. Rachel Schattman, assistant professor of sustainable agriculture at the University of Maine, is leading the study of a novel shallow well design that is […]

Sam Roy, Mitchell Center faculty fellow and Natural Hazards Planner for Maine Emergency Management Agency (MEMA), participated on a Maine Public panel, “The history and risk of hurricanes in Maine, and what to do to prepare.” The program, which aired on October 12, is now available for listening from Maine Public’s website. The devastation caused […]

A new study published in Global Environmental Change by University of Maine Associate Professor of Forest Policy and Economics Adam Daigneault and colleagues from seven institutions develop a first of its kind forest model intercomparison project (ForMIP) to estimate long-term futures for the world’s forests under different socioeconomic and climate mitigation pathways. Amidst growing recognition […]

Mitchell Center community members actively publish their research across a diverse range of academic journals. The following is a sample of recent papers by Mitchell Center faculty, students, and alumni. Source-sink behavioural dynamics limit institutional evolution in a group-structured society Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Timothy Waring, Guillaume St-Onge, Meredith Niles, Laura Kati Corlew, Matthew Dube, Stephanie Miller, […]

Bridie McGreavy, associate professor of environmental communication at the University of Maine Department of Communication and Journalism and Mitchell Center Faculty Fellow, received the J. Robert Cox Award in Environmental Communication & Civic Engagement for 2022 from the Environmental Communication Division of the National Communication Association. Read the full story on the College of Liberal […]

The University of Maine is one of five international sites of the 2022 Raising Indigenous Voices in Academia & Society (RIVAS) conference, acknowledging the contributions of Indigenous Peoples globally, Oct. 20–25. RIVAS supports the scholarship of Indigenous academics and speakers whose cultures help shape linguistics, archeology, cultural anthropology and other academic disciplines, and also acknowledges […]

Investigating a possible method for eliminating the toxic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, is the objective of a new National Science Foundation-funded study led by Onur Apul at the University of Maine. NSF awarded $250,000 for Apul, an assistant professor of environmental engineering and Mitchell Center faculty fellow, to research how to remove PFAS, […]

We’ve had the privilege of working with Tony both as a graduate student and researcher for many years. We are excited to see him start his new position as Assistant Professor of Native American Food Systems at UMaine. The University of Maine Native American Programs and UMaine Extension have hired Tony Sutton as assistant professor […]

The Mount Desert Islander shared that Susanne Lee, faculty fellow of the University of Maine’s Mitchell Center for Sustainability, will present about what can be done in the home to reduce food waste, what the necessary resources are to produce food and the impact of food waste on the environment. The event is at La […]