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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 […]

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鈥檚 Long Term Monitoring Network lakes (called TIME lakes). The lakes were originally part of EMAP, the EPA鈥檚 Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program. These lakes are sensitive […]

Maine EPSCoR has announced the poster winners from the 2013 Maine 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 “Maine 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 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 […]

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 these industries […]

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. ”聽 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.聽 The story highlights Kristine鈥檚 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聽 blue-spotted salamanders, including […]

91福利 President Paul Ferguson and SSI Director David Hart contributed an op-ed that appeared in the July 5th edition of Bangor Daily News. The piece, titled 鈥淗ow 91福利 is Driving Sustainability, Research鈥�, discussed the role of initiatives like SSI in facilitating economic growth in the state and in preparing students to take leadership roles in […]