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SUMMARY:Talk - The Future of Farming: Building Tools for Tech Savvy Farmers
DESCRIPTION:This talk is available via Zoom. Registration is required due to security concerns. Please complete the registration form to receive the Zoom connection information. \nSpeakers:\nLily Calderwood\, Extension Wild Blueberry Specialist and Assistant Professor of Horticulture\, UMaine\nSean Birkel\, State Climatologist; Research Assistant Professor\, UMaine Climate Change Institute\nGlen Koehler\, Associate Scientist IPM\, UMaine Cooperative Extension \nThis talk will focus on a project co-led by researchers in the University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the Climate Change Institute in collaboration with Maine farmers. Their goal: to listen to farmer needs around weather information and farm management decision support tools\, and discuss future capabilities in light of Maine’s changing climate. Lily\, Sean\, and Glen will discuss their progress towards providing site-specific temperature\, precipitation\, frost and heat-stress warnings\, cloud-cover/sunshine\, evapotranspiration\, and soil moisture forecast and observation values for locations in Maine. The wild blueberry and potato industries already have crop-specific weather stations. Through the project\, the team has gained a better understanding of how these crop-specific weather stations can be combined with NOAA gridded weather data to serve more farms in Maine.\n\nLily Calderwood’s research and education program aims to develop whole system approaches to wild blueberry production in Maine. Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is at the forefront of her work\, which can improve the economic and ecological resilience of farms by incorporating subjects such as fertility\, soil health\, and plant physiology into pest management. Current research includes a weed survey of wild blueberry fields\, tine weeding and cover cropping studies for organic weed management\, mulching studies\, crop and pest forecasting tools\, and foliar fertilizer assessments.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mitchellcenter/event/talk-the-future-of-farming-building-tools-for-tech-savvy-farmers/
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SUMMARY:Talk - The Land-Sea Conjunction Junction...what’s the function? Connecting coastal places\, people\, and science
DESCRIPTION:This talk is available via Zoom. Registration is required due to security concerns. Please complete the registration form to receive the Zoom connection information. \nFor those who aren’t familiar with the word play\, check out the original Schoolhouse Rock: Grammar – Conjunction Junction Music Video \nSpeakers:\nLauren Ross\, Assistant Professor\, Civil and Environmental Engineering\nSean Smith\, Associate Professor\, Earth & Climate Sciences and Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions \nA grand challenge of coastal pollution management is the development and application of useful ways to approach functional biophysical relations and effectively communicate observed coastal patterns to diverse groups of people that often connect parts of a story\, events\, and decisions in different ways. Our research to frame solutions to pollution problems affecting shellfishing communities in Maine has serendipitously led a group of collaborating scientists and stakeholders through lessons similar to that of the Conjunction Junction song in the Schoolhouse Rock educational series. Conjunctions are about connections\, and coastal pollution research and science communication is all about that in estuaries at the junction of coastal watersheds and the sea. It is also about “AND\, BUT\, & OR” just like the song with the distinction that land-sea connections governing estuary pollution dynamics are about “causes” not “clauses”. The causes of problems confronting shellfishing communities relate to sources\, delivery\, and residence time of pollutants\, but estuary responses are also dependent on coastal conditions. Some pollution events can be caused by land source AND estuary residence time problems\, such as high rates of polluted runoff discharge into estuaries with poor flushing. Others are caused by similar co-occurring problems\, BUT only under certain types of conditions governed by tidal cycles or seasons. Scientists and stakeholders working on these problems have the ultimate task of deciding how the knowledge from research can be put into action by choosing one type of management strategy OR another under varied scenarios. Our coastal research that started seven years ago focuses on these socio-biophysical dynamics where freshwater flows\, tidal circulation of seawater\, and coastal shellfishing communities connect. Our goal is to provide tools to help make science-based decisions to guide whether or not to close shellfish harvesting in response to estuary water quality conditions\, how to protect ecosystem services in coastal estuaries\, and where to deploy monitoring resources. Here we provide an overview of how scientists and stakeholders are making strides towards functions that provide better predictions of water quality conditions in Maine estuaries\, as well as new forms of information\, data sources\, and analytical tools to help natural resource managers and shellfishing communities respond. \nLauren Ross is an assistant professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Maine. She holds a BS from the University of North Florida in Mathematics\, an MS from San Diego State University in Applied Mathematics and a PhD from the University of Florida in Coastal and Oceanographic Engineering. Her research involves understanding tidal processes in estuarine and coastal environments. Lauren’s research areas range from the fjords of Chilean Patagonia to the hyper-turbid estuaries of western Europe. She has helped industrial partners in Europe to determine optimal locations for tidal turbines in estuaries and understand how these turbines will alter the surrounding marine environment prior to implementation. \nSean Smith is an associate professor in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences at the University of Maine with a joint appointment to the Mitchell Center. His research seeks to understand processes that shape the earth’s landscape with attention to alterations of hillslope and stream conditions by human activities. Much of his work is within the disciplines of watershed geomorphology\, hydrology and surface flow hydraulics to focus on the quantification of landform stability and the flux of water\, sediment and nutrients in the contemporary landscape. A primary goal of his research is to advance the prediction and mitigation of environmental impacts across varied spatial and time scales. His interest in developing scientific information to guide watershed management policies inspires his efforts to communicate research results to stakeholders in varied community and physiographic settings. \n 
URL:https://umaine.edu/mitchellcenter/event/talk-the-land-sea-conjunction-junction-whats-the-function-connecting-coastal-places-people-and-science/
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SUMMARY:Talk - Waste Land to Portfolio: How timberland was transformed from a resource to be mined - to equity worth buying
DESCRIPTION:This talk is available via Zoom. Registration is required due to security concerns. Please complete the registration form to receive the Zoom connection information. \nSpeaker: Dave Edson\, Board of Directors\, James W. Sewall Company; Advisory Board\, Mitchell Center \nFrom the viewpoint of a forester who witnessed major forest land transactions during the 70’s thru 2010\, there is an inexorable trend offering some expectation that forest land use will continue to serve the needs and interests of future generations. \nThis was not always a foregone conclusion. AND the movement was initiated in no small part within the northeastern United States. \nThat trend has been reinforced by a global movement of equity investment in forest land and the coincident ability of the global conservation movement to participate on a par with the free market economy to realize very long term strategic goals. \nDave Edson\nDave Edson has dedicated his professional career to the James W. Sewall Company (Sewall)\, a full-service consulting company based in Old Town\, Maine. His career included leadership roles as Chief Executive Officer (2012-2018)\, President\, Executive Vice-President\, Chief of Operations\, and Vice President of Forestry and Natural Resources. He currently serves on the Board of Directors. \nA licensed professional forester\, Dave joined Sewall in 1974 as Forest Technician. Named Vice President of Forestry and Natural Resources in 1983\, he was instrumental in designing and implementing Sewall’s first geographic information system (GIS) for forestland ownership\, use and covertype. \nIn 2001\, Dave partnered with Dr. James H. Page to acquire Sewall\, in the process transforming the firm from family to management ownership. During the next decade\, they diversified Sewall’s services in engineering\, GIS\, and forestry consulting to include offerings in web-based enterprise GIS\, renewable energy and environmental sciences. In 2012\, Dave became majority owner and Chief Executive Officer. Sewall was purchased in 2018 by Treadwell Franklin Infrastructure Capital LLC. \nDave received a B.A. in American History from Harvard College and a M.S. in Forestry from the University of Maine. His professional affiliations include the Association of Consulting Foresters where he was President of Maine Chapter\, the Society of American Foresters\, the Maine Forest and Logging Museum\, the Maine Forest Products Council\, and the Forest Society of Maine. \n 
URL:https://umaine.edu/mitchellcenter/event/talk-waste-land-to-portfolio-how-timberland-was-transformed-from-a-resource-to-be-mined-to-equity-worth-buying/
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