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SSI researcher Jessica Leahy was interviewed for an article in the Kennebec Journal that appeared July 13, 2013. Leahy, Associate Professor of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources in the Uº£½ÇÉçÇø School of Forest Resources, discussed º£½ÇÉçÇø’s Great Ponds Act which allows open access to undeveloped lands in º£½ÇÉçÇø for hunting and fishing. Leahy said in […]

Press Release: July 29, 2013 Orono, ME – º£½ÇÉçÇø and New Hampshire’s coastal tourism and shellfish industries contribute millions of dollars annually to the regional economy. In º£½ÇÉçÇø in 2010, coastal tourism and recreation added $1.1 billion to º£½ÇÉçÇø’s gross domestic product, while shellfish landings in that same year generated revenues of $347 million. But […]

Researchers from SSI’s Protecting Natural Resources at the Community Scale (Vernal Pool) team have been awarded  a grant from the NSF Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems (CNH) program for their project, “Of Pools and People: Small Natural Features with Large Ecosystem Functions in Urbanizing Landscapes. “  This 4-year project was funded for $1.49M and […]

Mitchell Center researcher Sarah Nelson recently completed a report that brings together data spanning 30 years of sampling at a set of 31 of the U.S. Environmental Protections Agency’s Long Term Monitoring Network lakes (called TIME lakes). The lakes were originally part of EMAP, the EPA’s Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program. These lakes are sensitive […]

º£½ÇÉçÇø EPSCoR has announced the poster winners from the 2013 º£½ÇÉçÇø EPSCoR Conference that was held on September 30 at Wells Conference Center. The winning posters for the undergraduate and graduate student competitions are posted at the Mitchell Center for viewing. The student winners are as follows: High School Competition Sedona Lucas, Zachary Rice, Sijia […]

SSI Doctoral Student Kristine Hoffman was featured on MPBN’s “º£½ÇÉçÇø Things Considered” radio show on August 5, discussing some of the unusual findings from her vernal pool research. Kristine is a team member on the Protecting Natural Resources at the Community Scale project. To read the full MPBN story or listen to a podcast of […]

SSI researcher Jessica Leahy was interviewed for an article in the Kennebec Journal that appeared July 13, 2013. Leahy, Associate Professor of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources in the Uº£½ÇÉçÇø School of Forest Resources, discussed º£½ÇÉçÇø’s Great Ponds Act which allows open access to undeveloped lands in º£½ÇÉçÇø for hunting and fishing. Leahy said in […]

July 29, 2013 Orono, ME – º£½ÇÉçÇø and New Hampshire’s coastal tourism and shellfish industries contribute millions of dollars annually to the regional economy. In º£½ÇÉçÇø in 2010, coastal tourism and recreation added $1.1 billion to º£½ÇÉçÇø’s gross domestic product, while shellfish landings in that same year generated revenues of $347 million. But these industries […]

Researchers from SSI’s Protecting Natural Resources at the Community Scale (Vernal Pool) team have been awarded  a grant from the NSF Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems (CNH) program for their project, “Of Pools and People: Small Natural Features with Large Ecosystem Functions in Urbanizing Landscapes. ”  This 4-year project was funded for $1.49M and […]

SSI Doctoral Student Kristine Hoffman was featured recently in a news broadcast on Bangor TV stations Fox 22 and ABC 7.  The story highlights Kristine’s research focusing on the conservation and habitat of the blue spotted salamander (Ambystoma laterale). Kristine is looking at the breeding ecology, habitat selection and life histories of  blue-spotted salamanders, including […]