Speaker: Dan Coker, The Nature Conservancy in Maine While there are many approaches to achieving conservation success, influencing public policy is a critical piece of the puzzle. Providing policy makers with tools that clearly illustrate scientific information is an effective way to help them make informed decisions about conservation issues that impact their constituents and […]
Governing the vulnerabilities of urban infrastructure to water scarcity and flooding – The example of Mexico City Marco Janssen, Professor, School of Sustainability and Director, Center for Behavior, Institutions and the Environment, Arizona State University Many megacities such as Mexico City will experience in the coming decades an amplification of the existing challenges of water […]
This event has been cancelled due to illness. We will try to reschedule for fall semester. Speaker: Dr. Andrew Miller Department of Geography and Environmental Systems, University of Maryland - Baltimore County Co-sponsor: School of Earth and Climate Sciences Dr. Miller is interested in the interaction between watershed form, hydrologic response, and fluvial morphology with […]
Speaker: Anne Henshaw, PhD, Oak Foundation In the mainstream media, images of polar bears perched on pans of melting ice continue to be emblematic of climate change and its immediate threats. While visually effective, do polar bears serve as an appropriate symbol for highlighting vulnerability and adaptive capacity to climate change, especially for the 400,000 […]
Virtual options for participation are available. Contact carol.hamel@maine.edu. Please RSVP by 9am, Friday, July 6, 2018 (hallsworth@maine.edu) Click here for more information on the FY19 Maine Water Resources Research Institute Request for Proposals
Click here for more information on the FY19 Maine Water Resources Research Institute Request for Proposals
Quixada Moore-Vissing Civic Researcher and Community Engagement Designer In a time when many of us just want to silence the noise of uncivil, polarized national politics, local democracy offers a hopeful alternative. People who live as neighbors in the same town or region have an opportunity to demand that local politics and civic life in […]
Amanda Klemmer, Assistant Research Professor of Food-web Ecology, School of Biology & Ecology, UMaine The productivity of Maine’s coastal ecosystems is a keystone of the state’s natural resources based economy, with Maine’s coastal fisheries and tourism both billion-dollar industries. Sustainably managing these growing industries, to shepherd them through an uncertain ecological future, requires a mechanistic […]
Sarah & Bryce Hach Founders, Maine Food for Thought The restaurant scene in Portland has become globally renowned for its’ innovation and quality. But there is also an important and vibrant story behind the plate that interconnects the land, the sea and the people of Maine, that have made it, over time, into the celebrated […]
Keynote Speaker: Senator George J. Mitchell This event is free and open to all. Tickets are required and will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis. Click here to reserve your ticket. In this lecture, Senator Mitchell will examine various economic, social and political factors that are contributing to the high level of polarization and […]
