MaineSci Vol. 7 Calendar

Contact: Dave Munson at (207) 581-3777

UPCOMING EVENTS:

A. 2006 Forests of Maine Teachers’ Tours
B. Mitchell Center Spring Seminar Series
C. College of Education and Human Development’s Spring Research Colloquium
D. Spring Forage Conference set for April 6  

A. 2006 Forests of Maine Teachers’ Tours

The Maine TREE Foundation and Maine Project Learning Tree announce the Summer 2006 Forests of Maine Teachers’ Tours.

The four-day tours of Maine’s forests and mills will take place at:

Tour #1:  Little Lyford Pond Camps near Moosehead Lake    July 11-14

Tour #2:  Twin Pine Camps on Millinocket Lake near Mt. Katahdin    July 18-21

Tour #3:  Leen’s Lodge on West Grand Lake in Downeast Maine    August 1-4

Learn about sustainable forestry, forest ecology, recreation, wildlife, wood products and more.  Foresters, biologists, land and mill owners, loggers and conservationists will accompany each tour.  Trained facilitators will present a Project Learning Tree workshop on each tour. 

Formal and informal educators are welcome;  Courses for credit will be offered on Tours #1 and #2 by University of Maine professors.  Contact hours and CEU’s are also available.

Registration Fee is $100; Space is limited.

Call (207) 621-9872 or email mtf@gwi.net for a brochure.

See details at www.mainetreefoundation.org.

B. Mitchell Center Spring Seminar Series

Seminars are sponsored by the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental & Watershed Research and the UMaine Program in Ecology and Environmental Science.

This goal of this seminar series is to provide information on current research projects taking place on the Penobscot River ahead of the proposed dam removals. This seminar series coordinates with the Penobscot River Synthesis project.

Unless otherwise noted, all seminars take place at 12 noon in Norman Smith Hall at the University of Maine campus in Orono. If you are coming from off-campus, and need parking permits and/or directions, please contact Ruth Hallsworth at 207/581-3196 or hallsworth@maine.edu.

TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 2006

Topic: Continued Development of a Fish Assemblage Assessment Method for Non-Wadeable Large Rivers in Maine and New England: 2002-2005

Speaker: Chris O. Yoder, Research Director, Center for Applied Bioassessment and Biocriteria, Midwest Biodiversity Institute

TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 2006

Does Descaling Impair Osmoregualtion in Seawater-Challenged Atlantic Salmon Smolts with Gayle Zydlewski, School of Marine Sciences, University of Maine, and Sturgeon Habitat in the Lower Penobscot River with Stephen Fernandes, University of Maine.

C. College of Education and Human Development’s Spring Research Colloquium

The College of Education and Human Development’s Spring Research Colloquium begins Friday, Feb. 10.  The intent is to provide a forum for College faculty to share and discuss their research — planned, in process or recently completed — and to learn from each other.

The seminars are held from 2-3 p.m. on various Fridays in 159 Shibles Hall. Members of the campus community and general public are welcome to attend.

April 7 —  “Instructional practices in Reading First classrooms in Maine,” Janet Fairman.

D. Spring Forage Conference set for April 6

Contact: Rick Kersbergen/Sonia Antunes 1-800-287-1426

The University of Maine Cooperative Extension is pleased to offer another forage conference designed to help dairy and livestock producers with valuable information to improve profitability on their farms. This conference will be held in Central Maine at the Albion Besse Building (Town Office) and will feature Jack Lazor from

Butterworks Farm in Vermont. Jack and his wife manage an integrated dairy farm, growing quality forages and grains for their organic herd. Jack will be part of a farmer panel that will discuss grain and forage rotations.

Also on the agenda are presentations by Extension Educator Rick Kersbergen who will discuss new ideas related to harvesting haylage that will certainly stimulate your thoughts about how and when you cut your grass and legume forages this summer. Gary Anderson, Dairy Specialist will lead a discussion on feeding small grain silages and how best to manage your rations with these types of feed.

The conference is co-sponsored by the Maine Organic Milk Producers (MOMP) and Unity Barn Raisers through a Conservation Partnership Initiative. Registration will begin at 10:00 with presentations starting at 10:30.

Pre-registration is requested and lunch is included in the $8.00 per person registration fee. Call Sonia at 1-800-287-1426 to request registration materials and an agenda before April 3rd.