Evolving Approaches to Collaborative Learning and Boundary Spanning in Sustainability Science Christine Feurt, University of New England How can busy researchers work with even busier managers to facilitate effective application of science to address complex environmental challenges? Sustainability science offers a framework for integrating the perspectives and expertise of interdisciplinary scientists and managers and focusing […]

Channel Bed Dynamics in a Coupled Human-Climate-Postglacial System Brett Gerard, Earth & Climate Sciences, UMaine

Materials Management through Sustainable Consumption: Research, Policy and Practice Cindy Isenhour, Dept. of Anthropology, UMaine A significant body of research suggests that production efficiencies are unlikely to result in environmental improvements adequate to avoid “dangerous” climate change, resource depletion, and increasingly significant waste management issues. This is, in part, because rapidly growing levels of consumption […]

Spatial and Temporal analysis of Beach and Shellfish Bed Water Quality Data Sponsored by the Mitchell Center and NEST  

John Hagan, President, Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences The science of when science doesn’t matter (and what to do about it) Why does society make such painfully slow progress on […]