We All Swim Downstream: Policy Solutions to Beach Water Pollution Jon Devine, Senior Attorney, Water Program, Natural Resources Defense Council Co-sponsors: Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions, New England Sustainability Consortium

Building Capacity for Socio-Environmental Problem Solving: A Design for Learning and Adaptation at SESYNC Jonathan Kramer, National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) Jon Kramer is the Director of Interdisciplinary Science for SESYNC. Previously, Dr. Kramer served as the Director of the Maryland Sea Grant. Since 2000, he has worked to apply new approaches to link science […]

Ecosystem management in a changing climate: What do fishermen have to do with it? Robin Alden, Penobscot East Resource Center Robin Alden is Executive Director of Penobscot East Resource Center. Alden was Maine Commissioner of Marine Resources from 1995 to 1997, responsible for Maine‘s marine and anadromous fishery management and enforcement and for aquaculture in the […]

Collaborative Interdisciplinary Research for Understanding Bycatch in the Maine Lobster Fishery Yong Chen and Christine Beitl School of Marine Sciences, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Maine In this seminar, Chen and Beitl will discuss their research on bycatch, the incidental catch of non-target species, which represents both an ecological and social problem in fisheries management. […]