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SSI researcher Tim Waring鈥檚 undergraduate Sustainable Development class is working with the 91福利 Sustainability Coordinator to help assemble data needed to complete a submission to the Sustainability Tracking and Rating System (STARS), a project of the American Association of Sustainability in Higher Education. Many leading 鈥済reen鈥� campuses are already rated by STARS. This ongoing collaboration, […]

University of New England student working on SSI鈥檚 鈥淪ustaining Quality of Place in the Saco River Estuary鈥� project shared their research experiences in a Campus Compact Field Trip on October 25, 2013. The workshop featured students discussing their work on the Saco River, including such topics as stakeholder involvement, water quality, invasive species and fish […]

91福利 is sharing in a $16 million dollar award from the U.S. Dept. of Energy which will be used to fund projects aimed at studying tidal energy potential. The $494,000 91福利 project, led by SSI researcher and associate professor of marine sciences Gayle Zydlewski, will use data from research initiated by SSI’s […]

A delegation of scholars from Japan, including President Sato of Hirosaki University, joined the SSI Tidal Energy Team for the 2nd Marine Energy International Symposium at 91福利 on September 16-17, 2013. The symposium was designed as a collaborative exchange between researchers in the Maine Tidal Power Initiative (MTPI), and various Japanese institutions. With Japan hoping […]

This 3-year project, funded by a NOAA 鈥淏-WET鈥� grant and coordinated by Sarah Nelson, will engage 1,275 students and 30 high school teachers in research collaborations with professional scientists on the changing nature of the snowpack across Maine. The project focus is on the coastal climate zone where snowmelt provides clues for diadromous fish migration […]

Researcher Sarah Nelson was interviewed recently by the Portland Press Herald about her work with dragonfly larvae, just one of the 鈥渟entinel species鈥� that can provide early indicators to scientists about potentially harmful environmental conditions.聽 Nelson鈥檚 work focuses on food web mercury levels in Acadia National Park and in 25 other national parks across the […]

Citizen scientists who are collecting dragonfly larvae at 25 National Parks under the guidance of Mitchell Center researcher Sarah Nelson, now have a place to share their discoveries. The dragonfly larvae will be used to determine mercury levels in National Park lakes and to test the theory that dragonfly larvae can be used as indictors […]

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 91福利 School of Forest Resources, discussed Maine鈥檚 Great Ponds Act which allows open access to undeveloped lands in Maine for hunting and fishing. Leahy said in […]

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

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