SPEAKER: Sam Lake, Emeritus Professor, Monash Univeristy, Melbourne, Australia Co-sponsored by the School of Biology & Ecology After receiving his PH.D from the University of Southampton, in 1967 Dr. Sam Lake was appointed to the Zoology Department of the University of Tasmania where his research focus was mainly on the impacts of heavy metals on […]
SPEAKER: Aaron Strong, Assistant Professor, School of Marine Sciences, UMaine Through rapid and persistent anthropogenic global change, we now recognize that human activity is at risk of fundamentally altering the […]
Speaker: Travis P. Wagner, University of Southern Maine A key goal of sustainable materials management is to maximize the use and reuse of materials more productively over their entire lifecycles […]
Cindy Isenhour doesn’t subscribe to the adage “out with the old, in with the new.” The planet can’t sustain it, says the assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Maine. Consider, she says, that each American annually throws away 1,400 pounds of stuff and that 11,000 gallons of water are used to produce one […]
Speaker: Heather Deese, Vice President of Research and Strategy, Island Institute In response to community requests for more and better data and analyses, the Island Institute launched a new initiative […]
Speakers: Aram Calhoun and Malcolm 'Mac' Hunter, Professors, Dept. of Wildlife, Fisheries, & Conservation Biology, Mitchell Center Fellows, UMaine Seminar is co-sponsored by the Dept. of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Conservation […]
The Northern Maine Children’s Water Festival promotes hands on learning about water issues. This one-day event bring together over 600 students and their teachers.
Speakers: New England Sustainability Consortium (NEST) Decision Support Systems Team Kate Beard (Computing and Information Science), Damian Brady (Marine Sciences), Brian McGill (Biology and Ecology, Mitchell Center), Bridie McGreavy (Communication […]
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Ruth DeFries, Denning Family Professor of Sustainable Development, Columbia University This lecture will be held in the Wells Conference Center on the UMaine Orono campus at 1 p.m. DeFries is a professor […]
SPEAKER: Jeff Marks, Executive Director, E2Tech In partnership with the US Department of Energy and the Maine Governor’s Energy Office, E2Tech is engaged in a unique project to guide and stimulate innovative, facilitated discussions among businesses, non-profits, government entities, and other parties to drive public support for and private sector investment in Maine’s energy sector. […]
