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SOE undergrads and grads present at the 2018 Maine Water and Sustainability Conference

Several SOE graduate and undergraduate students presented at the conference; many of the presentations were focused on the development of marine aquaculture in Maine

Grad student Amy Bainbridge attends World Ocean Summit

Sustainable Ocean Alliance and The Economist Events have partnered to bring 15 youth leaders to the World Ocean Summit in Fairmont Mayakoba Riviera Maya, Mexico. Attendees were challenged to bring a fresh perspective to key areas including fisheries, ocean plastics, governance, policy, and the application of new technologies to enhance our ocean’s health and its […]

Arianna Castonguay to intern at AIR

This summer Arianna will be working at the American Institute for Research (AIR) as a Research Associate Intern in Washington, DC! AIR is federally contracted with the National Center for Education Statistics and is currently working on survey design and analysis for the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. As an intern on this team, Arianna […]

Maine Public interviews Rubin about reducing road salt use

Maine Public spoke with Jonathan Rubin, director of the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center and professor of resource economics and policy at the University of Maine, for a report about reducing road salt use in the state. “The key is to be smarter about this and use less by better management,” said Rubin, who was the […]

SOE Alum Sarah Newcomb interviewed by Forbes

Sarah’s recent ground-breaking work on the connections between social comparisons and emotional well-being are highlighted in the article. She finds people who compare themselves against those who are wealthier or more successful had lower feelings of well-being and higher levels of negative emotions. Read the full article here.

SOE EES undergrad Kayla Greenawalt makes case for protecting the environment

Greenawalt, who returned from a research trip to the Falkland Islands with Ph.D. student Dulcinea Groff in late January, is doing just that as an undergraduate researcher. On the Falkland Islands — a 4,700-square-mile archipelago off the coast of South America — she collected soil samples around tussac (tussock) grass. Groff examines sediment and peat cores that […]

Sustaining Cooperation in the Local Food Economy

Dr. Waring and his research team presented their ongoing work on local food systems and cooperation at the Mitchell Center for Sustianbility Solutions on November 20th. Master’s student Afton Hupper, PhD Student Taylor Lange, and Stakeholder Jeremy Bloom of Buying Club Software presented their new work together. Seminar Abstract Sustainable solutions are not always win-win. […]

Dr. Waring gives lecture on The Evolution of Social-Ecological Systems

Professor Waring presented his research on the evolution of social-ecological systems at the SEANET speaker series this week. His lecture, “The Evolution of Social-Ecological Systems” explains how human cooperation dynamics often determine if and how people manage the environmental resources sustainably. Seminar Abstract To solve the modern environmental predicament we must understand how humans created […]

Professor Waring’s New Theory of Sustainability

Professor Tim Waring has unveiled a new theory he and collaborators have spent the last five years developing. Waring is an associate professor of social-ecological systems modeling in the School of Economics and the Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine – it’s literally his job to build and test sustainability theory. […]

Kofi Britwum, Postdoctoral Research Associate, published

Kofi Britwum is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the School of Economics and just recently had his research published. The paper titled “A field experiment on consumer willingness to accept milk that may have come from cloned cows” can be found online.