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SUMMARY:Talk - Stories from the Sea: Fishing Communities Revealed
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: Natalie Springuel\, University of Maine Sea Grant \nScattered among Maine’s coastal communities\, in historical societies\, museums\, libraries\, community radio stations and schools\, the voices of Maine’s fishing community members have been recorded for posterity. These voices can illustrate the past and help us plan for the future. With ecological shifts happening today as a result of climate change and other drivers\, the local fisheries knowledge contained in Maine’s rich oral history archives is a critical source of information about ecology and coastal communities. But not if the recordings are sitting on shelves collecting dust. This talk will reflect an effort to bring those stories to life. Through audio clips past and present\, maps\, diagrams\, timelines\, and photos\, the project aims to bring life back to these stories so they can be useful for decision-making\, community development and cultural heritage. \nNatalie Springuel has been a marine extension associate with University of Maine Sea Grant since 2000. Based at College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor\, her extension programs address working waterfronts and coastal access\, fisheries heritage\, and sustainable tourism planning. She is the coordinator of the Downeast Fisheries Trail\, a founder of the National Working Waterfront Network\, and host of the award winning public affairs show on WERU Community Radio called Coastal Conversations. \n 
URL:https://umaine.edu/mitchellcenter/event/talk-stories-from-the-sea-fishing-communities-revealed-2/
LOCATION:107 Norman Smith Hall\, Mitchell Center - UMaine\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
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SUMMARY:Talk - Maine Can Lead in Fair Planning for Addressing Climate Change: Steps in an Equity Assessment
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:\nLinda Silka\, Senior Faculty Fellow\, Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions\nSara Kelemen\, Graduate Student\, School of Food and Agriculture \nIn the face of climate change\, Maine must be prepared. The University of Maine has important roles to play in helping the state prepare for the effects of climate change. One such role is to analyze the equity and fairness of proposed climate action plans. The Mitchell Center has been asked to analyze the recommendations with regard to their equity. We will report on our equity assessment work this summer and discuss with you what we are learning\, and ways that the University can continue to be involved. \nDr. Linda Silka is a social and community psychologist by training\, with much of her work focusing on building community-university research partnerships. She has several decades of experience in leading community-university research partnerships on environmental\, economic development\, and environmental health issues. Dr. Silka was the former Director of the UMaine’s Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center and is now Senior Fellow at the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions. Prior to moving to the UMaine\, Dr. Silka was a faculty member for three decades at the University of Massachusetts Lowell\, where she directed the Center for Family\, Work\, Community\, served as the Special Assistant to the Provost for Community Outreach and Partnerships\, and was Professor of Regional Economic and Social Development. \nSara Kelemen is a masters candidate in the School of Food and Agriculture\, working in the Agroecology lab. She graduated from Reed College with a B.A. in History and Environmental Studies. While at Reed\, she worked on the initial stages of the college’s climate action plan\, focusing on collecting water\, natural gas\, and electricity use data. She is interested in farmer decision making practices\, increasing climate resilience on farms\, and crafting accessible and equitable plans for dealing with the effects of climate change. \n 
URL:https://umaine.edu/mitchellcenter/event/talk-maine-can-lead-in-fair-planning-for-addressing-climate-change-steps-in-an-equity-assessment/
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SUMMARY:Talk - Cultivating Ecological Virtues
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. \nA three-part environmental ethics workshop. \nDon Beith will discuss how environmental ethics is about more than simply applying human values to environmental problems\, but also learning to make our ethical thinking itself more ecological. Our environmental decision-making frameworks are oriented by our deeper values\, our moral character. Virtues—like courage and temperance\, for example—are healthy\, exemplary developments of moral character\, but we often think about them in anthropo-centric terms and contexts disconnected from environmental issues. The second part of the workshop will feature breakout groups to brainstorm ideas about collaboratively developing new eco-centric virtues\, perhaps like solidarity\, equity\, eco-dependence and sustainability. Groups will be encouraged to discuss how to ecologically reshape our moral development and education\, including questions about how ecological virtues might impact our environmental citizenship and decision-making. We should also think about how virtues are specific to places\, times and cultures\, and whether these virtues have corresponding environmental vices. Reconvening as a group in the third part of the workshop\, we’ll share insights about environmental virtues and their potential impact for sustainability practices. Please come ready to think about\, listen to and share ideas! \nSpeaker: Don Beith\, Assistant Professor of Environmental Philosophy\, UMaine \nDon Beith is assistant professor of environmental philosophy at the University of Maine\, focusing on issues at the intersection of environmental ethics\, the philosophy of technology\, healthcare justice and existentialism. Don’s recent book The Birth of Sense\, a study of the work of French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty\, is an investigation of the ecological origins of human habit\, culture and ethics. \n 
URL:https://umaine.edu/mitchellcenter/event/talk-cultivating-ecological-virtues-fall-2020/
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SUMMARY:Talk - Unkicking the can: How community development can make a difference now
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 Milan\, Director of Community Development\, Town of Orono\, Maine \nHaving worked in law enforcement as well as community and economic development for many decades\, Dave Milan discovered that many parts of municipal government operate in silos\, with too little knowledge of how their work connects with the work of other departments. Over the past 20 years\, he has helped municipalities learn how departments can work together to improve community well-being. In Orono\, he has also provided guidance to UMaine students in aligning their research projects with the needs of local government\, the private sector and community organizations. In this talk\, he’ll share some of the lessons he has learned about the ways that university research can strengthen community development initiatives. \nDave Milan works for the Town of Orono as the Director of Community Development overseeing the offices of Economic Development\, Code Enforcement\, Planning and Assessing. He assists companies with business plan development\, identifying funding and employee training opportunities\, regulatory hurdle jumping\, and other challenges that businesses face in their quest for success. \nPrior to his 20 years in the economic development field\, Dave was the Deputy Chief of Police at the Bucksport Police Department. After spending 26 years as a police officer\, Dave brought his talents as a criminal investigator and problem solver to the business world. Graduating from Bucksport High School and Eastern Maine Vocational Technical Institute\, Dave went on to graduate at the top of his class at both the Maine Criminal Justice Academy and the FBI National Academy in Quantico\, VA. \nDave has served in leadership positions on regional boards and committees including Eastern Maine Development Corporation\, Eastern Maine Community College\, Hancock County Planning Commission\, Bangor Region Development Alliance and the Bangor Target Area Development Corporation. \nDave has been married to his wife Vicki for 40 years and they have four grown children and nine grandchildren. He likes to spend his free time on his lobster boat Gone Wishin. \n 
URL:https://umaine.edu/mitchellcenter/event/talk-unkicking-the-can-how-community-development-can-make-a-difference-now/
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SUMMARY:Talk - Sustainable Water Treatment – Moving from Victorian Era Technology to Nanotechnology
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: Onur G. Apul\, Assistant Professor\, Civil & Environmental Engineering\, UMaine \nHaving access to drinking water is a basic human right. However\, billions of people around the world still lack access to safe drinking water. Even in the most industrialized nations\, safe and sustainable drinking water supply is far from being accomplished. Modern day water catastrophes such as the lead crisis in Flint\, the global microplastics and PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) crises emphasize how vulnerable our engineered water systems are. Many of the most commonly applied water treatment technologies still rely on Victorian era processes such as sand filtration i.e.\, processes that are not designed to undertake the challenges of the complex technical and social issues currently threatening our drinking water. Therefore\, there is an urgent need for developing robust\, safe\, resilient and sustainable water treatment technologies. Over the last two decades\, we have witnessed the rise of nanotechnology with the ability to tune and visualize materials at an atomic level. In this presentation\, Onur will discuss some of the solutions that nanotechnology offers to current drinking water issues that are insurmountable using traditional approaches. \nOnur Apul is an assistant professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Maine. Prior to his appointment\, he was an assistant professor in Environmental Engineering at UMass Lowell. He earned his Ph.D. in 2014 in Environmental Engineering at Clemson University\, SC. In 2013\, his work received the prestigious L.G. Rich Award from the Water Environment Association. In 2015 and 2017\, he received the Highly-Cited-Author Recognition by Elsevier’s Water Research Journal. In 2017 and 2018\, he received UMass Lowell’s Chancellor Recognition for “highest number of publications and creative works”. In 2019\, he received the “Outstanding Teacher Award” from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) – Student Chapter. Dr. Apul has published more than 40 peer-reviewed journal articles and submitted 5 patent applications to date. He has given 50 presentations including invited keynote lectures and invited talks at national and international meetings. He is a guest editor of Nanomaterials and a member of American Chemical Society\, Sustainable Nanotechnology Organization\, and the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors. \n 
URL:https://umaine.edu/mitchellcenter/event/talk-nanotechnology-for-sustainable-water-treatment/
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