Upcoming Science-related Events

Contact: David Munson at (207) 581-3777

MITCHELL CENTER SPRING 2006 SEMINAR SERIES

PENOBSCOT RIVER RESEARCH — LOOKING TO THE FUTURE

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.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2006

Topic: Biological Assessment of Rivers and Streams in the Penobscot River Basin

Speaker: Tom Danielson, Biomonitoring Unit, Maine Dept. of Environmental Protection

THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 2006

Topic: Long term biological monitoring of the Penobscot River as illustrated with a field-based stressor-response model, the Biological Condition Gradient

Speaker: Susan Davies, Biomonitoring Unit, Maine Dept. of Environmental Protection

GUEST LECTURE

SPEAKER: David Krabbenhoft, Research Scientist, U.S. Geological Survey

TOPIC: Mercury Contamination of the Environment: A Wide Spread Problem with an Uncertain Future

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2006

12noon – 1:30pm

Bangor Room, Memorial Union, University of Maine, Orono

If you are coming from off-campus and need parking permits or directions, please contact Ruth Hallsworth at hallsworth@maine.edu or 207/581-3196.

This lecture is co-sponsored by the UMaine Program in Ecology and Environmental Studies, the Mitchell Center and UMaine Department of Biological Sciences.

The Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology & Molecular Biology Spring 2006 Hitchner Seminar Series.    Seminars are on  FRIDAY at 2:10 PM in 203 Hitchner Hall  (unless noted otherwise).

Thursday March 2  at 2:10 PM in  100 Nutting Hall

Jessica Miller,  UM Department of Philosophy

“Some ethical implications of the Human Genome project”

March  24       

Dana Davis  (UM alum-BMMB)  University of  Minnesota                   

 “Adaptation to the host environment, fungal pathogenesis, and the role of Rim101”

Research Discussion Topics Announced

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