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We wanted to share with you the exciting news that Governor Mills has issued an official Proclamation聽designating September 25-29, 2023 as Maine Food Waste Awareness Week! In particular, we鈥檇 like to thank the Maine Dept. of Education and the teachers, staff, and students who participated in our 2023 Maine School Cafeteria Food Waste Study. Their […]

By Sarah Delmonte On Monday, September 11, the Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions introduced their fall talk series with speaker Vanessa Levesque, a social scientist and assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of Southern Maine. In her discussion, titled 鈥淰acationland or Climate Migrationland?鈥�, Levesque introduced the concept of […]

Our Maine is鈥� 鈥漛eautiful enough to sit on a coffee table, but informative and rigorous enough to be an academic resource.鈥� 鈥渞eads like love letters to Maine.鈥� We are thrilled to announce that a new book, Our Maine, edited by Mitchell Center faculty fellows Aram Calhoun and Mac Hunter, has just hit bookshelves. The book […]

With Earth鈥檚 oceans facing rapid climate and ecological change, University of Maine faculty will use a $3 million award from the National Science Foundation to create a new training program for graduate students that will support the next generation of marine science and conservation professionals. Over the next five years, Joshua Stoll and his colleagues […]

In an article about how the insular world of academia can prevent community-focused research, The Chronicle of Higher Education spoke to David Hart, director of the University of Maine Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions and professor of biological sciences, and Linda Silka, senior fellow at the Mitchell Center. When Hart and Silka […]

Sharon Klein and Caroline Noblet, both associate professors of economics and Mitchell Center Faculty Fellows, are working with Wabanaki and rural low-income communities to co-develop a new resource for helping them implement renewable energy and energy efficiency projects. The Environmental Protection Agency awarded $1.13 million to Klein and Noblet so they can investigate the effectiveness […]

The Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation (CERF) announced that associate professors Lauren Ross and Sean Smith received the 2023 Donald W. Pritchard Outstanding Physical Oceanography Paper Award for 鈥淐oastal Hydrodynamics and Timescales in Meso-Macrotidal Estuaries in the Gulf of Maine: A Model Study.鈥� Ross and Smith co-authored the paper with Sohaib Alahmed, former 91福利 student […]

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has granted $1.5 million to the University of Maine and collaborators to carry out a series of programs that will educate and aid farmers in climate adaptation and mitigation. Agricultural producers anticipate an onslaught of challenges due to climate change, such as increases in flooding, drought, pest and disease […]

A new collaborative research project led by the University of Maine called STORM: Data-Driven Approaches for Secure Electric Grids in Communities Disproportionately Impacted by Climate Change, has been awarded $6 million from the National Science Foundation. Over the next five years, the project team will conduct studies and create new tools that will grow research […]

Lauren Ross鈥檚 research on the physics of estuaries has brought her all over the world, from France to Frenchman Bay along Mount Desert Island. With her recently-awarded Fulbright, Ross will lead a team of scientists to Chile to look at these transition points between freshwater rivers and the salty sea in a place where so […]