Faculty

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EES Affiliate Faculty Leading the Way in Seed Funding for Sustainability

The Mitchell Center has awarded funding to four projects run by 91�� faculty, students, and their partners to address real-world sustainability problems in Maine. Three of the four projects are lead by EES-affiliated faculty! Check out their projects below. Co-developing Local Sustainability Solutions Within Statewide Coalition-Building Sharon Klein, Associate Professor in the School of Economics, […]

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Sharon Tisher, EES Faculty Spotlight

Our faculty spotlight this semester is Dr. Sharon Tisher, an EES faculty member who teaches two popular classes on Environmental, Law and Policy, and Energy, Law, and Environment. Her principal research and writing project, A Climate Chronology, is ongoing. Dr. Tisher was recently interviewed by Izzy Kostelnick , the EES Social Media Coordinator. WHAT BROUGHT […]

Hamish Greig named EES Assistant Director, Graduate Coordinator

EES is happy to announce that Dr. Hamish Greig joined its leadership team. Greig started a three-year term as the EES Assistant Director and Graduate Coordinator in September. An Assistant Professor of Stream Ecology at 91��, his research studies how environmental gradients influence community structure and function. Many of his graduate students are pursuing EES […]

EES graduate students study rockweed, ‘a system of curiosity’

EES graduate students Hannah Webber, Elliot Johnston, and Hannah Middlestaedt and EES affiliated faculty Amanda Klemmer and Brian Olsen are part of an interdisciplinary team researching rockweed ecology. Three graduate students study rockweed, ‘a system of curiosity’

Sarah Nelson gives plenary lecture at Organization of Biological Field Stations meeting

EES Director, Dr. Sarah Nelson, gave a plenary lecture at last week’s meeting of the Organization of Biological Field Stations, held at the Schoodic Institute campus in Acadia National Park. The theme of the 53rd Annual Meeting was Partnerships and Collaborations. Nelson’s talk, with co-authors from National Park Service, United States Geological Survey, EES Faculty […]

Climate change resilience research receives $150K NIFA grant

EES affiliated faculty member Sandra De Urioste-Stone, assistant professor of nature-based tourism, was recently awarded a $150K grant by the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture. The focus of the study is increasing understanding of the impacts of climate change on forest ecosystems, and on the industry and communities that […]

Research team led by Gardner and Sponarski awarded $1.17 million to protect Maine forest workers from tick-borne diseases

MaineBiz recently reported that a research project led by EES faculty affiliates Allison Gardner, an assistant professor of arthropod vector biology with the School of Biology and Ecology, and Carly Sponarski, an assistant professor of human dimensions of wildlife and fisheries conservation with the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Conservation Biology, has been awarded $1.17 […]

EES welcomes new faculty

EES is pleased to announce that seven faculty members from a range of academic units across campus joined EES as affiliated faculty in the 2017-2018 academic year. They are Damian Brady, Assistant Professor of Marine Sciences, School of Marine Sciences; Adam Daigneault, Assistant Professor of Forest, Conservation, and Recreation Policy, School of Forest Resources; Bridie McGreavy, Assistant […]