Servello Named UMaine Associate Dean/Associate Director
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ORONO — Frederick Servello has been named associate dean for research in the University of Maine College of Natural Sciences, Forestry and Agriculture and associate director of the Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station. In these roles, Servello will work with the Edward Ashworth, the college dean and experiment station director, in leading and managing the college’s research programs. The job also includes management responsibilities for UMaine’s research farms and gardens.
“Fred is an established leader in our academic community, with a long-standing record of accomplishment in teaching, research and public engagement,” Ashworth says. “This is an important role, central to UMaine’s interface with the statewide agricultural community, and I am certain that Fred will help us build on established momentum and continue to serve this vital sector of Maine’s economy.”
He will also serve as director of the Maine Agricultural Center at UMaine.
Servello joined the UMaine faculty in 1990 in the Dept. of Wildlife Ecology. He served as department chair from 2002-2007 and has also been interim associate director of the Experiment Station. Before moving to Maine, Servello was a University of Kentucky extension specialist in wildlife. He earned a doctorate in 1985 from Virginia Tech.
At UMaine, Servello has taught courses in natural resources policy and conducted research on a wide array of wildlife conservation and public policy issues in forest, marine, agricultural and wetland systems. His current research projects focus on aquaculture-seabird interactions, wildlife damage in wild blueberry agriculture, status and ecology of endangered marsh birds and wildlife-forestry interactions in Maine.