{"id":16709,"date":"2018-12-21T11:19:03","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T16:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/?page_id=16709"},"modified":"2026-02-10T10:16:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T15:16:03","slug":"spring-2019-sustainability-talks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/spring-2019-sustainability-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring 2019 Sustainability Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SpringAll talks are Mondays at 3pm in 107 Norman Smith Hall, University of Maine, Orono unless otherwise indicated. Please sign up for our e-newsletter<\/a> for regular event updates.<\/p>\n

Many talks are recorded and can be found on our Vimeo site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

February 4<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Gains of Going Green: Opportunities for Collaborative Research with The Nature Conservancy in Maine<\/em><\/a>
\nAndy Cutko, Director of Science, The Nature Conservancy Maine
\nLink to Video<\/a><\/p>\n

February 11
\n<\/strong>Conservation Science for Changing Times: An Emerging Transdisciplinary Research Program at UMaine<\/em><\/a>
\n<\/strong>Members of UMaine’s NSF-NRT Team
\nLink to Video<\/a><\/p>\n

February 25
\n<\/strong> Racing the clock to preserve the past\u2026A community-based approach to managing Maine\u2019s shell middens<\/a>
\n<\/em>Alice Kelley, School of Earth & Climate Sciences, UMaine & Bonnie Newsom, Dept. of Anthropology, UMaine
\nLink to Video<\/a><\/p>\n

March 4<\/strong>
\nTalking Trash: Creating a Circular Food System in Maine<\/a>
\n<\/em>Food Waste Reduction Student Team
\n<\/em>Brie Berry, Skyler Horton, Shayla Rose Kleisinger, Andrew Flynn, Hannah Nadeau, Taylor Patterson
\nLink to Video<\/a><\/p>\n

March 11
\n<\/strong>Reinventing the forest community: honoring tradition while igniting innovation<\/span><\/em><\/a>
\n<\/span><\/b>Rob Riley, President, Northern Forest Center
\nLink to Video<\/a><\/p>\n

March 25<\/strong>
\nA Little Engine That Could: A Small Organization’s Role Fostering Conservation and Community Connections<\/a>
\n<\/em>Billy Helprin, Director, Somes-Meynell Wildlife Sanctuary
\nLink to Video<\/a><\/p>\n

April 1
\n<\/strong>Can People Be \u2018Nudged\u2019 To Improve Water Quality? Evidence from Large-Scale Economic Experiments<\/a>
\n<\/em>Kent Messer, Professor of Applied Economics and Statistics, University of Delaware
\nLink to Video<\/a><\/p>\n

April 8 – Cancelled
\n<\/strong>A River Runs Through It: Combining \u2018Heritage\u2019 and River Restoration in Southern New England<\/a>
\n<\/em>Brian Payne, Associate Professor, History and Canadian Studies, Bridgewater State University
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

April 15
\n<\/strong>Developing Relocation Policies for Environmental Refugees: The Adverse Consequences of Treating Assumptions as Facts <\/em><\/a>
\n<\/em><\/strong>Amanda Bertana, Postdoctoral Fellow, Scholars Strategy Network, UMaine
\nLink to Video<\/a><\/p>\n

April 22<\/strong>
\nSustainability of Collaboration<\/a>
\n<\/em>Amber Roth, Assistant Professor of Forest Wildlife Management, School of Forest Resources, UMaine
\nLink to Video<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All talks are Mondays at 3pm in 107 Norman Smith Hall, University of Maine, Orono unless otherwise indicated. Please sign up for our e-newsletter for regular event updates. Many talks are recorded and can be found on our Vimeo site. February 4 The Gains of Going Green: Opportunities for Collaborative Research with The Nature Conservancy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":957,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/page-withsidebar.php","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"The Mitchell Center hosts a weekly sustainability talk each Monday at 3pm during fall and spring semesters. Talks are available via video conferencing and streaming and are also recorded and posted to our Video-on-Demand page.","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16709","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"taxonomy_info":[],"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"mitchellcenter","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/author\/mitchellcenter\/"},"comment_info":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16709"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36149,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16709\/revisions\/36149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}