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SUMMARY:Talk - Tick\, Talk: Integrating biological and social science research to address ticks and Lyme disease in Maine
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Carly Sponarski\, Assistant Professor\, Dept. of Wildlife\, Fisheries & Conservation Biology\, Faculty Fellow\, Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions \nResilient agroecosystems have both healthy forests and healthy forest workers. This study will integrate natural and social science research\, extension\, and education to develop and test adaptive land management practices to protect private forest landowners\, foresters\, and loggers against exposure to tick-borne disease (TBD) and to manage the spread and persistence of TBD in the forest landscape. Due to climate change\, Maine has experienced a five-fold increase in incidence of Lyme disease over the past decade\, providing an urgent need and a unique socio-ecological context to investigate the effects of forest management on infectious disease transmission. Forest workers are at particularly high risk of contracting TBD due to their high occupational exposure to ticks and low perceptions of TBD risk. We are conducting applied ecological research to understand the impact of timber harvesting on risk of exposure to TBD and the causal mechanisms underlying observed patterns. We are conducting applied social science research to understand the economic\, environmental\, and production factors that influence private forest landowners’ decision-making processes related to land management and TBD prevention. We recently started our second year of this three year project. These results will be used to inform practical recommendations to mitigate the impacts of climate change on TBD transmission that are based on scientific data and compatible with landowners’ economic interests. \nCarly Sponarski joined the Department of Wildlife\, Fisheries\, and Conservation Biology in August 2016. Prior to moving to Orono\, Dr. Sponarski was a postdoctoral scholar in Dr. Nicole Ardoin’s Social Ecology lab at Stanford University. She obtained her PhD from Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John’s\, Canada\, in Natural Resource Management within the Geography Department; a M.E.Des (Environmental Science) from the University of Calgary in the Faculty of Environmental Design; and a BSc in Animal Biology from the University of British Columbia. \nDr. Sponarski’s research interests focus on the intersection of human (social systems) and natural resources (ecological systems)\, thus her work is interdisciplinary in nature. At this intersection\, she examines the social impacts of resource management – the community interactions\, associated conflicts\, and decision-making. This research is called\, human dimensions of natural resources and she focuses on wildlife and fisheries management issues. Dr. Sponarski is interested in understanding future management directives/objectives\, current management strengths/weaknesses\, and public opinion towards difference species and management actions. \n 
URL:https://umaine.edu/mitchellcenter/event/talk-tick-talk-integrating-biological-and-social-science-research-to-address-ticks-and-lyme-disease-in-maine/
LOCATION:107 Norman Smith Hall\, Mitchell Center - UMaine\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
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SUMMARY:Talk - Shifting Paradigms to Manage for Change in Acadia National Park
DESCRIPTION:Shifting paradigms to manage for change in Acadia National Park: Our approach and where we need your help\nSpeaker: Abe Miller-Rushing\, Science Coordinator\, Acadia National Park \nAgencies charged with protecting natural and cultural resources can no longer simply work to maintain historical conditions. Rather\, these agencies must manage resources in a rapidly changing environment. They must adopt a mix of practices designed to resist\, accept\, and direct change. Dr. Miller-Rushing\, Science Coordinator at Acadia National Park\, will discuss how the National Park Service is navigating this challenge in Acadia and throughout the agency. In particular\, he will discuss the heightened need for forward-looking research\, partnerships\, and new ways to engage stakeholders and the broader public in science and management. He will focus on some specific examples in Acadia\, such climate-smart vegetation restoration (including invasives removal and managed relocation)\, management of the intertidal zone\, understanding and responding to new public health threats\, and large-landscape conservation. \nDr. Abe Miller-Rushing\, Science Coordinator for Acadia National Park and Schoodic Education and Research Center\, is a phenologist studying the biological impacts of climate change and the role of citizen science in observing changes over time. Abe is the former Assistant Director\, and one of the founding scientists\, for the USA-National Phenology Network\, which houses data collected by Signs of the Seasons volunteers. He feels the biggest management action needed for Acadia National Park is to tell the story of what’s happening there to agencies and the public. Abe received a Ph.D. in biology from Boston University and a B.A. in biology from Grinnell College\, Iowa.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mitchellcenter/event/talk-shifting-paradigms-to-manage-for-change-in-acadia-national-park/
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SUMMARY:TALK  CANCELLED - Rapid Arctic Change: Why Does It Matter and How Can the Science Community Help?
DESCRIPTION:Given the current situation with the COVID-19 virus\, and following guidance from the University of Maine System and the Maine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\, this talk has been cancelled. We will try to reschedule for a later date. \n* This talk is scheduled for 12pm in the McIntire Room\, Buchanan Alumni House. \nSpeaker: Fran Ulmer\, Chair\, U.S. Arctic Research Commission \nFran Ulmer is chair of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission\, where she has served since being appointed by President Obama in March 2011. In June 2010\, President Obama appointed her to the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling. From 2007 to 2011\, Ms. Ulmer was chancellor of Alaska’s largest public university\, the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA). Before that\, she was a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Institute of Social and Economic Research at UAA. She is a member of the Global Board of the Nature Conservancy and on the Board of the National Parks Conservation Association. \nMs. Ulmer served as an elected official for 18 years as the mayor of Juneau\, a state representative\, and as Lieutenant Governor of Alaska. She previously worked as legal counsel to the Alaska Legislature\, legislative assistant to Governor Jay Hammond\, and Director of Policy Development for the state. In addition\, she was the first Chair of the Alaska Coastal Policy Council and served for more than 10 years on the North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission. She has served on numerous local\, state\, and federal advisory committees and boards. Ulmer earned a J.D. cum laude from the University of Wisconsin Law School\, and has been a Fellow at the Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School of Government. \nCo-sponsors: Dept. of Wildlife\, Fisheries and Conservation Biology; Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions
URL:https://umaine.edu/mitchellcenter/event/talk-rapid-arctic-change-why-does-it-matter-and-how-can-the-science-community-help/
LOCATION:McIntire Room\, Buchanan Alumni House\, Two Alumni Place\, University of Maine\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED - 2020 Maine Sustainability & Water Conference
DESCRIPTION:Given the current situation with the COVID-19 virus\, the conference organizing committee has decided to cancel the 2020 Maine Sustainability & Water Conference.\n\nFor those who have already registered for the conference\, we will be issuing full refunds. This may take some time\, so please be patient as we go through this process.\nPlease visit the conference web page for complete conference information.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mitchellcenter/event/2020-maine-sustainability-water-conference/
LOCATION:Augusta Civic Center\, Augusta\, ME\, United States
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SUMMARY:TALK CANCELLED - Defining Food Security in the Modern World
DESCRIPTION:Given the current situation with the COVID-19 virus\, and following guidance from the University of Maine System and the Maine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\, this talk has been cancelled. We will try to reschedule for a later date. \nDefining Food Security in the Modern World: Nutritional and Food Management Policies in the US\, Canada\, and Great Britain in the Post-World War Two Era\nSpeaker: Brian Payne\, Associate Professor\, Bridgewater State University \nWhen the United Nations released its seventeen Sustainable Development Goals on September 25\, 2015\, it listed “zero hunger” as its second priority\, only after “no poverty.” While many commentators have since noted that these goals marked a significant redirection for the United Nations’ understanding of global development\, historians note that ending global hunger has been at the forefront of the United Nations’ mission since the very beginning. In fact\, this focus on global food policy goes back to even before the UN was officially established. A delegation of international representatives adopted a basic philosophy for global food management at the Hot Spring Conference in Virginia in June of 1943\, two years before the closing of the famous San Francisco meeting in June of 1945. \nThis talk will present the basic history of international efforts to address global hunger and global food management and trace its historical roots to Progressive-era (1900-1919) and the U.S. New Deal (1932-1941) philosophies of social justice and managed states. It illustrates the interconnectedness of pre-war social reform ideals in the United States\, Canada\, and Great Britain with post-war global food structures. The goal of the presentation will be to spark a deeper conversation about what impact the idea of “sustainability” has\, or may have\, on global food policy. Has this new focus on the concept of sustainability changed how nation-states and international agencies approach the question of global food policy? How has sustainability altered the definitions of reoccurring concepts like “food security” and “nutritional and food management\,” both core concepts in the United Nations’ global food policy since the very beginning? \nBrian Payne is an associate professor of history and Canadian studies at Bridgewater State University. His teaching focuses on US and Canadian economic and environmental history during the industrial era (1877-1939).  Payne received both his MA and PhD from the University of Maine. His first book\, Fishing a Borderless Sea: Environmental Territorialism in the North Atlantic\, 1818-1910 (MSU Press\, 2010) examined how fishermen constructed informal codes of conduct to regulate access to inshore fisheries\, which\, at times\, conflicted with formal law or international diplomacy. In 2016-2017 he held the Fulbright Research Chair at Carleton University in Ottawa. His current research project looks at the influence of “heritage” in river and coastal restoration in New England and Atlantic Canada.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mitchellcenter/event/talk-defining-food-security-in-the-modern-world/
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