Title: George Mitchell: Building Consensus on Taxes, the Environment, and War Speaker: Douglas Rooks, Author of “Statesman: George Mitchell and the Art of the Possible” About the book: The first […]
SCHOOL OF EARTH AND CLIMATE SCIENCES Brown Bag Seminar Speaker: Brett Gerard PhD Student, Earth & Climate Sciences and Mitchell Center
What are the most important energy challenges facing the State of Maine? What problems are we trying to solve and how do policy makers craft solutions to address the most […]
Kelly Shenk, Agricultural Advisor, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region III Gary Shenk, Hydrologist, USGS at the Chesapeake Bay Program Office People, food and water have an inherently inseparable relationship. Clean […]
Speaker: Betty J. Woodman, Ph.D. Maine Business School, University of Maine What is a “mindset,” and how does it relate to sustainability outcomes? This talk addresses systems-based research into a […]
Laura N. Rickard, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication & Journalism and UMaine Sustainable Ecological Aquaculture Network (SEANET) As wild fisheries decline, aquaculture – the cultivation of aquatic organisms, such as fish, crustaceans, mollusks, and seaweed – will provide the majority of the seafood consumed in the U.S. Scientific and technological advances over the past three […]
Maine's forest products industry has been declining for years, forcing closure of six pulp and paper mills in the last three years and reductions in workforce in others. Expiring contracts, […]
Matt Liebman, Iowa State University The development of modern, industrial agriculture has been characterized by large reductions in biological diversity, both across landscapes and within farming systems. Loss of biodiversity […]
Joseph Zydlewski Professor, Wildlife, Fisheries, & Conservation Biology Assistant Unit Leader, USGS Maine Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Dams affect fish species in some obvious ways. These effects, and […]
Speaker: David R. Maidment, University of Texas at Austin In August 2016 the National Weather Service launched the new National Water Model, which continually forecasts the flow in 2.7 million […]
