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  • SEMINAR – Talking Trash: The Sustainability Challenge Hiding in Plain Sight

    107 Norman Smith Hall Mitchell Center - UMaine, Orono, ME, United States

    SPEAKERS: Solid Waste/Materials Management Working Team (participants have included Karen Bieluch, Travis Blackmer, Jack Brannigan, George Criner, Cindy Isenhour, Jean MacRae, John Peckenham, Avi Rude, Jena Rudolph, Linda Silka, and David Hart) *Please see below a list of suggested readings to accompany this seminar One of Maine’s most pressing sustainability problems is materials management. What […]

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  • SEMINAR: Adaptive Management: So You Say It’s a Key to Resilience?

    107 Norman Smith Hall Mitchell Center - UMaine, Orono, ME, United States

    SPEAKER: Joshua Stoll, Doctoral Candidate, School of Marine Sciences, Robert and Patricia Switzer Fellow * See below a list of suggested readings to accompany this seminar. Many scholars have called for a paradigm shift in fisheries governance away from management approaches that require definitive information about stock size and dynamics to those that build social-ecological […]

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  • Maine Stormwater Conference

    Portland Marriott at Sable Oaks South Portland, ME, United States

    The biennial Maine Stormwater Conference brings together municipal, state, and federal employees; engineers; planners; academics; and other professionals to learn about and discuss stormwater management. The 2015 Conference will feature: Relevant, real-world examples of innovative stormwater management. Topics applicable to decision makers and practitioners, alike. A trade show of vendors to provide stormwater solutions. An […]

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  • SEMINAR: Fish, Dams and Resilience: Dam(ned) tradeoffs between nature and technology

    202 Winslow Hall Mitchell Center - UMaine, Orono, ME, United States

    SPEAKER: Karen Wilson, University of Southern Maine * See below a list of suggested readings to accompany this seminar. Alewife are small prey fish that spawn in lakes but spend much of their lives in the marine environment and are the subject of restoration efforts throughout Maine. Many alewife today access their spawning habitat through […]

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  • SEMINAR – When water quality is the easy problem: An untold story of sustainability and human well-being

    107 Norman Smith Hall Mitchell Center - UMaine, Orono, ME, United States

    SPEAKER: Bridie McGreavy, Assistant Professor, Communication & Journalism, UMaine Please see below a list of suggested reading to accompany the seminar. Intertidal mudflat ecosystems along Maine’s coast provide an income for approximately 1,700 licensed commercial shellfishermen in the State. These ecosystems and the individuals and communities that depend on them face threats due to unsustainable […]

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  • SEMINAR – Community Solar: Harnessing the Power of the People

    107 Norman Smith Hall Mitchell Center - UMaine, Orono, ME, United States

    SPEAKER: Sharon Klein, Assistant Professor, School of Economics, UMaine * See below a list of suggested readings to accompany this seminar. “Community energy” is a growing movement in the US and around the world. People are adopting sustainable energy technologies and strategies (renewable energy, energy efficiency, conservation) in groups and/or on shared property, in contrast […]

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  • SEMINAR – From Anthropogenic Ecosystems to Zoonoses: Emerging Issues in Conservation

    107 Norman Smith Hall Mitchell Center - UMaine, Orono, ME, United States

    EES 590 Course Presentations Instructors: Aram Calhoun, Malcolm Hunter Presentations will present a synoptic overview of several emerging ideas in conservation science—conservation psychology, ecosystem resilience, contemporary evolution, and more—leading to a discussion about how conservation management interfaces with ever-changing conservation science.

  • SEMINAR – Keystone Pipeline and Low Carbon Fuels: An Update on Transportation Energy Policy

    107 Norman Smith Hall Mitchell Center - UMaine, Orono, ME, United States

    Speaker: Jonathan Rubin Professor, Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center and School of Economics, UMaine The use of energy in transportation continues to be one of the largest contributors to U.S. Green House Gas (GHG) emissions. The policy framework for transportation energy is rapidly evolving due to changes in federal fuel economy standards (CAFE regulations), renewable […]