Speakers: Aria Amirbahman, Stephen Norton (UMaine), Firooza Pavri (USM), Scott Williams (VLMP), and Linda Bacon (Maine DEP) Maine lakes provide approximately $4 billion to the state economy annually in addition to providing enormous social, recreational, and aesthetic benefits to the people of Maine and millions of annual visitors. Unfortunately, many lakes in Maine are experiencing […]
Deadline for poster abstracts for the 2016 Maine Sustainability & Water Conference. For 2016, the juried poster competition includes three judging categories: graduate, undergraduate and high-school.
Speaker: Mussie Beyene, PhD Candidate, Civil & Environmental Engineering Maine has over 5000 lakes and winter ice cover over these lakes is a seasonal phenomenon, which plays a vital role in the ecological and socio-economic health of the state. In recent times, there have been dramatic shifts in the timing and duration of lake ice […]
Speaker: Carol Collier, Drexel University The Delaware River Basin is shared by four states and provides water to over 15 million people. Issues run the gamut from natural gas development, clean-up of PCBs, equitable allocation of water, droughts and floods, salt water intrusion, endangered species, managing non-point source pollution and, of course, the multiplying effect […]
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