The fourth annual River Herring Network meeting will take place on Thursday, October 30 at the Plymouth Public Library on 132 South St. Snacks, drinks, and a pizza lunch will be provided. The meeting includes a field trip to nearby Town Brook to view the ongoing dam removal work & learn about the fish passage work […]
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 […]
Sharing Traditional and Scientific Knowledge Registration is now open for the Black Ash Symposium to be held at the University of Maine November 5th - 7th, 2014. The unifying theme of the symposium will focus on the biology and ecology of black ash throughout North America. We will be bringing together researchers, state and national […]
The People Factor: How Climate Change Alters its Own Forecasts Dr James Lee, American University
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. […]
Extreme Makeover: Environmental Remediation Edition To Register
Advocacy through Engaged Learning: Mapping Food Access to Understand Policy and Culture Michelle Vazquez Jacobus, JD, MSW UMaine Visiting Libra Professor of Diversity Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Community Engagement Scholar, University of Southern Maine at Lewiston-Auburn College Please RSVP to Jenny Ferguson by Monday, November 17th
Phenology and effects of dams on the success of Atlantic salmon smolt migrations in the Penobscot River, Maine Dan Stich, Dept. of Wildlife, Fisheries and Conservation Biology
