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  • Hudson Museum Exhibit – Resourceful ME: Exploring the Value of Maine’s Reuse Economies

    Hudson Museum Collins Center for the Arts, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States

    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 […]

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  • Ph.D. Dissertation Defense

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

    Human Ecology of Commercial Fishing in Maine: Hidden connections, tangled institutions, uncertain resilience SPEAKER: Joshua Stoll, EES & SMS

  • Master’s Thesis Defense

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

    Engaging through valuation: Investigating citizen attitudes impacting program support and exploring ecosystem services values in stakeholder engagement SPEAKER: Emma Fox, EES

  • SEMINAR – Resilient Communities and Fisheries Arise from Resilient Ecosystems

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

    Speaker: Richard Merrick, Director, Scientific Programs and Chief Science Advisor, NOAA Fisheries Resilient, productive ocean fisheries are critical to coastal economies and ways of life. NOAA Fisheries has developed an agency-wide Ecosystem-based Fishery Management (EBFM) policy, which outlines a set of principles to guide NOAA's actions and decisions on the management of ocean fisheries over […]

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  • SEMINAR – Scaling Conservation: Translating Local Success into Global Impact

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

    SPEAKER: Kate Dempsey, State Director of The Nature Conservancy in Maine In the fall of 2016, water was released into a bypass around a dam on the Penobscot River in Howland, Maine, marking the completion of a sixteen-year collaborative project to provide diadromous fish species with access to hundreds of miles of spawning habitat with […]

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  • SEMINAR – Sustainability Lightning Talks

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

    Talks in this session will focus on sustainability research by students in Maine. Lightning Talk Rules: Each presenters will have 5-minutes for their talk. PowerPoint presentations are allowed but will be limited to 10 slides. Selected Student Talks: Brady Davis, UMaine Cheesemaking in Maine: Investigating Network Connections and Sustainability  Sarah Ebel, Nicole Ramberg-Pihl, Michael Torre, […]

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  • SEMINAR CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS

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

    Savoring Maine’s Artisan Cheese: Opportunities, Challenges, and Prospects for Sustainability Speaker: Jeff Roberts, President, Cow Creek Creative Ventures Over the past decade, Maine’s artisan cheese community grew at a rate that surpassed most other states. The sector, one of several exciting examples of a sustainable food systems, adds considerable value to dairy herds, offers high […]

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  • SEMINAR – Damned If You Do, Dammed If You Don’t: The Evolution of Pro-Active Dam Removal over the Last Quarter Century

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

    Speaker: Laura Wildman, Director, New England Regional Office, Princeton Hydro People have been building dams since prerecorded history. Dams have served a wide variety of economically valuable purposes including water supply, irrigation, navigation, flood control, mechanical and hydroelectric power, and recreation.  However with the rapid progression of dam building in the US also came significant […]

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  • SEANET Seminar – Off the Menu? Mussel Byssal Attachment in a Warmer, High CO2 Ocean

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

    Speaker: Emily Carrington Professor, Department of Biology, University of Washington National Science Foundation, Program Director, Physiological Mechanisms and Biomechanics Emily Carrington is a professor of Biology at the University of Washington and a National Science Foundation program director. Carrington’s research program, in its broadest sense, investigates the physiological ecology of marine organisms. She is particularly […]

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  • TALK — From frog fungus to smashed dams; Maine science journalism and the (messed-up) food chain of news

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

    Maine is fertile ground for environmental journalists. It’s got marine waters, estuaries and rivers, great ponds and little bogs, rugged peaks and thousands of miles of woodlands. All of these become controversial from time to time, with conflicts over everything from dams and wind turbines to clearcutting, wetlands and shoreland zoning. If that’s not enough, […]

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Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions
5710 Norman Smith Hall Orono, ME 04469-5710
Tel: 207.581.3195 Fax: umgmc@maine.edu
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