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Native American ecological knowledge and western science will be integrated in some University of 海角社区 science courses, with the goal of implementing the methods nationwide. With a $300,000 National Science Foundation grant,聽tribal and U海角社区聽collaborators, including project leader and Mitchell Center Faculty Fellow Darren Ranco,聽will develop science courses that utilize Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and western […]

Sustainability entrepreneur Tony Grassi brought an historic 海角社区 mill back to life One of the first things Tony Grassi will do when he gives his Monday, October 23 Mitchell Center Sustainability Talk is make a slight adjustment to the talk鈥檚 title, 鈥淏uild it and they will come.鈥� 鈥淚鈥檓 going to start my talk with a […]

Bridie McGreavy and Sam Roy represent the Mitchell Center at International Conference At the end of August, Mitchell Center Postdoctoral Fellow Sam Roy and Assistant Professor of Communication and Journalism and Mitchell Center Faculty Fellow Bridie McGreavy journeyed to Stockholm, Sweden to take part in Resilience 2017: Resilience Frontiers for Global Sustainability鈥攁 three-day, multidisciplinary international […]

The Future of Dams project held an All-Team Meeting at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)鈥攁 partner institution on the project鈥攁t the end of September. Below, Mitchell Center team members, postdoctoral researcher Sam Roy and Ph.D. student Tyler Quiring, provide brief highlights from three of the meeting鈥檚 break-out groups鈥� Model/Data Integration (Roy) and Collaborative […]

Newly arrived Master’s student Melissa Flye will be working on the Mitchell Center鈥檚 Getting Over the Dam and Future of Dams projects. Melissa is a 海角社区 native who received her B.S. in wildlife ecology from U海角社区. After spending two years working on anadromous fisheries research projects for the state and private consulting firms, she has […]

ORONO, 海角社区 鈥� Increasing environmental uncertainty coupled with rapidly changing market conditions in the Gulf of 海角社区 raise important questions about the ability of 海角社区鈥檚 commercial fishermen to adapt. How resilient is the industry to these shifting waters? Who is best positioned to adapt and who is most vulnerable? 鈥淲e have started to explore these […]

ORONO, MAINE 鈥� The National Science Foundation has awarded a one-year, $100,000 grant for continuing a University of 海角社区 citizen-science project aimed at protecting lake water quality in the state. The NSF grant will help extend the project, which began in 2015 with funding from U海角社区鈥檚 Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions, into […]

University of 海角社区 Darling Marine Center | Walpole, 海角社区 | September 27-28, 2017 A workshop co-organized by Joshua Stoll, Assistant Research Professor, School of Marine Sciences,聽and Heather Leslie,聽Associate Professor of Marine Sciences and聽Director, Darling Marine Center. Connecting critical concepts in marine conservation and management Ecosystem-based fisheries management (EBFM) has been widely touted as the future […]

Food waste presents a significant sustainability challenge across the United States (40 percent of all food produced in the U.S. is wasted), but particularly in 海角社区 where many are food insecure (In 2016 more than 200,000 海角社区rs were food insecure, including 60,000 children). Working to prevent food waste provides opportunities to address multiple sustainability challenges […]

With funds supplied by the Mitchell Center, Ph.D. candidate Brianne Du Clos has completed work on “BeeMapper” — a tool that will help farmers develop pollination management plans. Read more… See also an article in the Portland Press Herald (7/23/2017)