SPEAKER: Meredith T. Niles, Assistant Professor, Department of Food Sciences and Nutrition, University of Vermont *See below a list of suggested readings to accompany this seminar. Agriculture is both a potential victim and contributor to climate change. Ensuring food security in the future while minimizing environmental impacts from agriculture will fundamentally involve farmers who can […]

SPEAKERS: UMaine Environmental Stewardship Service-Learning Group (Claire Sullivan, Dan Dixon, Cindy Isenhour, Sandra DeUrioste-Stone, Bridie McGreavy, Sharon Klein) * See below for a list of suggested readings to accompany this seminar. The University of Maine’s comprehensive sustainability efforts improve lives and communities throughout the state of Maine and beyond. One of UMaine’s educational goals is […]

SPEAKERS: Solid Waste/Materials Management Working Team (participants have included Karen Bieluch, Travis Blackmer, Jack Brannigan, George Criner, Cindy Isenhour, Jean MacRae, John Peckenham, Avi Rude, Jena Rudolph, Linda Silka, and David Hart) *Please see below a list of suggested readings to accompany this seminar One of Maine’s most pressing sustainability problems is materials management. What […]

SPEAKER: Joshua Stoll, Doctoral Candidate, School of Marine Sciences, Robert and Patricia Switzer Fellow * See below a list of suggested readings to accompany this seminar. Many scholars have called for a paradigm shift in fisheries governance away from management approaches that require definitive information about stock size and dynamics to those that build social-ecological […]

SPEAKER: Karen Wilson, University of Southern Maine * See below a list of suggested readings to accompany this seminar. Alewife are small prey fish that spawn in lakes but spend much of their lives in the marine environment and are the subject of restoration efforts throughout Maine. Many alewife today access their spawning habitat through […]

SPEAKER: Sharon Klein, Assistant Professor, School of Economics, UMaine * See below a list of suggested readings to accompany this seminar. “Community energy” is a growing movement in the US and around the world. People are adopting sustainable energy technologies and strategies (renewable energy, energy efficiency, conservation) in groups and/or on shared property, in contrast […]

Deadline for admission for oral abstracts for the 2016 Maine Sustainability & Water Conference.

EES 590 Course Presentations Instructors: Aram Calhoun, Malcolm Hunter Presentations will present a synoptic overview of several emerging ideas in conservation science—conservation psychology, ecosystem resilience, contemporary evolution, and more—leading to a discussion about how conservation management interfaces with ever-changing conservation science.

Speaker: Jonathan Rubin Professor, Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center and School of Economics, UMaine The use of energy in transportation continues to be one of the largest contributors to U.S. Green House Gas (GHG) emissions. The policy framework for transportation energy is rapidly evolving due to changes in federal fuel economy standards (CAFE regulations), renewable […]

Speakers: Melissa Ladenheim, Mark Haggerty, François Amar, Danielle Walczak (fellow), Stephanie Welcomer, Linda Silka, John Jemison (Sustainable Food Systems Research Collaborative) and Tim Waring, Ethan Tremblay (School of Economics) This is an exciting time in Maine for sustainable agriculture and local food system work. Various stakeholders and organizations have made strides to grow the local […]