• Chemistry Department at 91����, 1983 to 2023.
• Former Dean, The Honors College (2013-2020)

Degrees

• B.A. (summa cum laude) 1975, Chemistry , Temple University
• M.S. 1977 & Ph.D. 1979, Chemistry, University of Chicago
• NSF-CNRS Postdoctoral fellow, Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France, 1979-80
• Postdoctoral fellow, Columbia University, New York, NY 1980-83

Research Projects

• Sustainable Food Systems Research Collaborative

Resources

• Sustainability RLE course offers new 91���� students opportunities to engage in real-world research (Mitchell Center news, Aug. 2021)

Affiliations

• Member, Center for Research in STEM Education (RiSE Center), University of Maine
• American Chemical Society
• National Collegiate Honors Council
• Fulbright Association

Courses Taught (selected):

• Honors 391, Introduction to Thesis Research, Spring 2020
• Honors 309, Honors Read Tutorial, Spring 2020
• General Chemistry, Physical Chemistry at undergraduate and graduate level
• Courses in MST program
• Honors Core courses

Profile

François is pursuing several initiatives that connect strongly to the mission of the Mitchell Center. The first of these is the Sustainable Food Systems Research Collaborative (SFSRC), an Honors-centered research cluster that fosters undergraduate, community-engaged research that can leverage the expertise of 91���� faculty in collaboration with gifted undergraduates to work on difficult problems that are important to community partners. He has been a co-author of several presentations/publications about the SFSRC.

Selected Publications

“The College” as an Emergent Global Form: One Experience at Starting a Trans-National College-to-College Relationship, Catelijne Coopmans, Gregory Clancey, François G. Amar, in Honors Education in Transition: Vol II. Continuity and Innovation in Honors College Curricula, Glover, Robert W. and Katherine O’Flaherty, Eds, Rowman and Littlefield, 2016.

Polymers and Cross-Linking: A CORE Experiment To Help Students Think on the Sub- microscopic Level, Mitchell R.M. Bruce, Alice E. Bruce, Shirly Avargil, Franço̧is G. Amar, Thomas M. Wemyss, and Virginia J. Flood, Journal of Chemical Education, 93(9), 1599-1605 (2016)

Leveraging the Research Capacity of the Doctoral University for Honors Education: the Research Collaborative Model, François G. Amar, Mark Haggerty, Melissa Ladenheim, Linda Silka, John Jemison, Honors in Higher Education: Proceedings from HERU Vol 1, Issue 1, 2016: online at https://journals.psu.edu/heru

Students’ Understanding of Analogy in a CORE (Chemical Observations, Representations, Experimentation) Learning Cycle, General Chemistry Experiment, Shirly Avargil, Mitchell R.M. Bruce, François G. Amar, Alice Bruce, Journal of Chemical Education 92(10), 1626-1638 (2015).

The influence of zinc(II) on thioredoxin/glutathione disulfide exchange: QM/MM studies to explore how zinc(II) accelerates exchange in higher dielectric environments, Roby Kurian, Mitchell R.M. Bruce, Alice E. Bruce, and François G. Amar, Metallomics, 7, 1265-1273 (2015).

Paying Attention to Gesture when Students Talk Chemistry: Interactional Resources for Responsive Teaching, Virginia J. Flood, François G. Amar, Ricardo Nemirovsky, Benedikt W. Harrer, Mitchell R.M. Bruce, Michael C. Wittmann, Journal of Chemical Education 92(1), 11-22 (2015).

Whispering Gallery Mode Emission Generated in Tunable Quantum Dot Doped Glycerol/Water and Ionic Liquid/Water Microdroplets Formed on a Superhydrophobic Coating, E. Nuhiji, F.G. Amar, H. Wang, N. Byrne ,T-L Nguyen, and T. Lin, Journal of Materials Chemistry 21(29),10823-10828 (2011).

Mechanism of Hydrodeoxygenation of Acrolein on a Cluster Model of MoO₃, D. Moberg, T. Thibodeau, F.G. Amar, B.G. Frederick, Journal of Physical Chemistry C 114, 13782-13795 (2010).

Using the workshop model for modular, student-centered leader training, Amar, F., Stewart, B.N., Fortin, H., Bruce, M.R.M. (2009). Progressions: The Peer-Led Team Learning Project Newsletter, Volume 10, Number 3, Spring.  Online at [ http://www.pltl.org ]http://www.pltl.org.

Four Leader Training Modules for PLTL: Getting started; Group Development; Communication; Mattering and Marginality. Amar, F., Fortin, H., Bruce, M.R.M. (2009). Progressions: The Peer-Led Team Learning Project Newsletter, Volume 10, Number 3, Spring.  Online at http://www.pltl.org.

Four Faculty Guides for PLTL training modules: Getting started; Group Development; Communication; Mattering and Marginality. Amar, F., Fortin, H., Bruce, M.R.M. (2009). Progressions: The Peer-Led Team Learning Project Newsletter, Volume 10, Number 3.

Websites:

• /philosophy/people/don-beith/
  

Research Interests

• Environmental Ethics and Justice
• Ethics
• Existentialism
• The Philosophy of Biology, The Philosophy of Technology

Mitchell Center Projects

Sustainability Hub for Undergraduates

Resources

• New Mitchell Center member profile (October 2021)
• Sustainability RLE course offers new 91���� students opportunities to engage in real-world research (Mitchell Center news, Aug. 2021)
• (Mitchell Center Talk, Nov. 16, 2020)

• Graduate Program Coordinator, Anthropology and Environmental Policy
• Fulbright Student Program Advisor
• Cooperating Faculty Member, School of Marine Sciences & School of Economics
• Affiliated Faculty Member, Ecology and Environmental Sciences

Research Interests

• Sustainability Science
• Human Ecology
• Environmental Anthropology
• Coastal/Fisheries Anthropology
• Environmental Governance and Policy
• Research Design and Methods

Research Projects

• 2023 – present. “Historical Uses of the Proposed Area of Interest for the Maine Offshore Wind Research Array.”  Maine Department of Marine Resources.
• 2023 – 2025. NNA Research: Rapid Arctic change and its implications for fisheries and fishing communities of the western North Atlantic” (NSF-NNA # 2220564; Damien Brady, Joshua Stoll, Christine Beitl.
• 2023 – present. NRT: Ecosystem science in the face of rapid ocean change: a convergence approach –  National Science Foundation Research Traineeship Program, (NSF #2244117).   Senior Personnel.
• 2019 – present Consultant on NSF-IBSS-L#1743019, “The Effect of Social Networks on Inequality: A Longitudinal Cross-Cultural Investigation.” (PI: Jeremy Koster). University of Cincinnati.
• Understanding Ecological, Social, and Economic Aspects of Bycatch and Building Stakeholder Alliances in the Gulf of Maine Lobster Fishery

Resources

• Sustainability RLE course offers new 91���� students opportunities to engage in real-world research (Mitchell Center news, Aug. 2021)

Student Opportunities
Inquiries are encouraged from self-motivated prospective graduate students broadly interested in human ecology and/or coastal and marine anthropology.

Degrees

• University of Georgia, Ph.D. (Ecological and Environmental Anthropology)
• Florida International University, M.A. (Latin American and Caribbean Studies/Environmental Studies)
• Ohio University, B.A. (Spanish)

Courses

• ANT 102: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (The Diversity of Cultures)
• ANT 250: Conservation Anthropology
• ANT 400: Anthropological Theory
• ANT 553: Institutions and Common Pool Resources (Commons Governance and Global Change)
• ANT 555: Resource Management in Cross Cultural Perspective
• ANT 597: Research Design and Methods
• ANT 597: Coastal and Marine Anthropology

Profile:

Christine Beitl is a faculty member in the University of Maine’s Department of Anthropology. Her research within the Department of Anthropology broadly looks at the interactions between socio-political, ecological, and economic systems. Her research aims to understand the cultural values driving change in ocean and coastal policies, and the distribution of benefits and risks in coastal development, including aquaculture and offshore wind. Her ethnographic research has included qualitative and quantitative methods, GIS, and the integration of social and environmental datasets to understand the role of collective action in mangrove forest conservation and sustainable small-scale fisheries in Ecuador. More recent research in Maine has focused on climate resilience, local ecological knowledge in fisheries, and offshore wind.

Prior to working at the University of Maine, Beitl taught at both the University of Georgia and Emory University. She was also awarded a Fulbright Fellowship for research in Ecuador.

Funding for Beitl’s research has come from the National Science Foundation, the Maine Department of Marine Resources,�� the Maine EPSCoR-NSF SSI, and the Wenner Gren Foundation, among others. Her work has been published in Human Ecology, World Development, the Journal of Political Ecology, and the International Journal of the Commons.

Selected Publications

Chávez-Páez, W., Beitl, C. M. (2025). Who has the power? Comparative insights on conflict management through community justice in Ecuador’s mangrove co-management. Environmental Development. .

zu Ermgassen, Philine, Worthington, Thomas A., Gair, Jonathan R., Garnett, E.E., Mukherjee, Nibedita, Longley-Wood, K., Nagelkerken, I., Abrantes, K., Aburto-Oropeza, O., Acosta, A., da Rocha, A.R., Araujo, Ronald Baker,�� Adam Barnett,�� Christine M. Beitl,�� Rayna Benzeev,�� Justin Brookes, Gustavo A. Castellanos-Galindo, Ving Ching Chong,�� Rod M. Connolly, Marília Cunha-Lignon,�� Farid Dahdouh-Guebas,�� Karen Diele, Patrick G. Dwyer,�� Daniel A. Friess, Thomas Grove,�� M. Enamul Hoq,�� Chantal Huijbers,�� Neil Hutchinson, Andrew F. Johnson,�� Ross Johnson,�� Jon Knight, Uwe Krumme,�� Baraka Kuguru,�� Shing Yip Lee, Aaron Savio Lobo,�� Blandina R. Lugendo, Jan-Olaf Meynecke, Cosmas Nzaka Munga, Andrew D. Olds, Cara L. Parrett, Borja G. Reguero, Patrik Rönnbäck, Anna Safryghin, Marcus Sheaves, Matthew D. Taylor, Jocemar Tomasino Mendonça, Nathan J. Waltham, Matthias Wolff,�� Mark D. Spalding. (2025). Mangroves support an estimated annual abundance of over 700 billion juvenile fish and invertebrates. Commun Earth Environ 6, 299 (2025).

Ashik Ur Rahman, M., Beitl, C.M. The Role of Collective Action and Identity in the Preservation of Irrigation Access in Dacope, Bangladesh. Sustainability 16(15), 6279;

Pollnac, R., Beitl, C. M., Viña, M.A., Gaibor, N. Perceptions of El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and La Niña Shape Fishers’ Adaptive Capacity and Resilience. Social Sciences. 13(7), 356;

Cavaleri Gerhardinger, L., Moreira Moura, G. G., McKinley, E., Christie, P., Narchi, N. E., Colonese, A. C., Beitl, C.M., Puniwai Hawaiʻinuiākea, N., Costa de Oliveira, C., da Silveira, I., Harry, D., Early Capistrán, M. M. (2024). A Call for a Cultural Shift in Oceanography. Coastal Management, 1–13.

Beitl, C.M., & Hiltonsmith, J. (2023). Fishing Industry Perspectives on the Development of Offshore Wind. Maine Policy Review, 32(2), 112-120.

Poto, M., Kuhn, A., Tsiouvalas, A., Hodgson, K., Treffenfeldt, M., Beitl, C. (2022). Knowledge Integration and Good Marine Governance: A Multidisciplinary Analysis and Critical Synopsis. Human Ecology. 50. 1-15. .

Nemer E. Narchi and Christine M. Beitl (eds.) América Profunda: visiones y convergencias en la oceanografía social del continente. Zamora: El Colegio de Michoacán. ISBN 978-607-544-166-5

zu Ermgassen, P., Castellanos-Galindo, G., & Beitl, C. (2020). Fishers who rely on mangroves: Modelling and mapping the global intensity of mangrove-associated fisheries. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science. .

Beitl, C.M., Rahimzadeh-Bajgiran, P., Bravo, M. Ortega-Pacheco, D., Bird, K., (2019). New Valuation for Defying Degradation:  Visualizing Mangrove Forest Dynamics and Local Stewardship with Remote Sensing in Coastal Ecuador. Geoforum. 98: 123-132. DOI:

Moritz, M., Behnke, R., Beitl, C.M., Bliege Bird, R., Morais Chiaravalloti, R., Clark, J.K., Crabtree, S.A., Downey, S., Hamilton, I.M., Chian Phang, S., Scholte, P., Wilson, J., (2018). Emergent Sustainability in Open Property Regimes. Proceedings for the National Academy of Sciences. 115(51): 1285-12867. DOI:

Narchi, N., Cariño, M., Mesa-Jurado, M.A. Espinoza-Tenorio, A., Olivos-Ortiz, A., Early Capistrán, M.M., Morteo, E., Ochoa, Y., Beitl, C.M., Martinez Diaz, T.E., Cervantes, O., Nava Bravo, H.H. Spalding, A. K., Grace-McCaskey, C.A., Corona, N., Moreira Moura, G.G., (2018). El CoLaboratorio de la Oceanografía Social: Espacio Plural para la Conservación Integral de los Mares y las Sociedades Costeras. Sociedad y Ambiente. 18: 285-301. DOI:

Farr, E.R., Stoll, J.S., Beitl, C.M., (2018). Effects of fisheries management on local ecological knowledge. Ecology & Society. 23 (3): 15. DOI:

Ebel, S. A., Beitl, C.M., Runnebaum, J., Alden, R., Johnson, T. (2018). “The power of participation: Challenges and opportunities for facilitating trust in cooperative fisheries research in the Maine lobster fishery.” Marine Policy 90: 47-54. DOI:

Beitl, C.M. (2018) Book Review of Lewis, Tammy L. (2016) Ecuador’s Environmental Revolutions: Ecoimperialists, Ecodependents, and Ecoresisters. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, viii + 282pp.

Beitl, C.M., (2017). Decentralized Mangrove Conservation and Territorial Use Rights in Ecuador’s Mangrove-Associated Fisheries. Bulletin of Marine Science. 93(1):117-136. DOI:

Beitl, C.M. (2016). The Changing Legal and Institutional Context for Recognizing Nature’s Rights in Ecuador: Mangroves, Fisheries, Farmed Shrimp, and Coastal Management since 1980. Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy.

Beitl, C.M., (2016). Decentralized Mangrove Conservation and Territorial User Rights in Ecuador’s Mangrove-Associated Fisheries. Bulletin of Marine Science. DOI:

Stoll, J.S., Beitl, C.M., Wilson, J.A., (2016). How Access to Maine’s Fisheries Has Changed over a Quarter Century: The Cumulative Effects of Licensing on Resilience. Global Environmental Change. 37:79-91.

C.M. Beitl, “Mobility in the Mangroves: Catch Rates, Daily Decisions, and Dynamics of Artisanal Fishing in a Coastal Commons,” Applied Geography (in press).

C.M. Beitl, “Navigating Over Space and Time: Fishing Effort Allocation and the Development of Customary Norms in an Open-Access Mangrove Estuary in Ecuador,” Human Ecology 42, no. 3 (2014): 395-411.

C.M. Beitl, “Adding Environment to the Collective Action Problem: Individuals, Civil Society, and the Mangrove-Fishery Commons in Ecuador,” World Development 56 (2014): 93-107.

C.M. Beitl, “Shifting Policies, Access, and the Tragedy of Enclosures in Ecuadorian Mangrove Fisheries: Towards a Political Ecology of the Commons,” Journal of Political Ecology 19 (2012): 94-113.

C.M. Beitl, “Cockles in Custody: The Role of Common Property Arrangements in the Ecological Sustainability of Mangrove Fisheries on the Ecuadorian Coast,” International Journal of the Commons 5, no. 2 (2011): 485-512.

Research Interests:

• Community-university research partnerships
• Use of science and citizen science in decision-making
• Undergraduate and graduate student training in sustainability and environmental sciences
• Environmental communication and behavior
• Place and community identity
• Interdisciplinary team collaboration

Resources:

• Mitchell Center News, November 13, 2018
  Science and Communication in University-Community Collaborations
• 2018 Maine Sustainability & Water Conference Presentation, March 29, 2018
  Community-engaged research in Dartmouth College’s Environmental Studies Program: From the Upper Valley of New Hampshire to the Namib Sand Sea in Namibia
• Mitchell Center News, September 18, 2018
  Mitchell Center Researchers Featured in Maine Policy Review Special Issue on Leadership
• Mitchell Center News, January 13, 2015
  Quality of Communication Between Participants Affects Research Outcomes
  

Degrees:

I.PhD, Communication and Sustainability Science, University of Maine
MA, Communication, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
BA, Communication, University of Maine

Profile:

As a social scientist, Karen Bieluch is interested in how people work together and what actions can improve those relationships. As such, a common theme in her current research is small group collaborations and the human interactions and contextual and organizational factors that influence those interactions. Her research focuses on identifying factors that influence inter- and transdisciplinary research partnerships and the strategies for and outcomes of undergraduate and graduate student education in sustainability and environmental sciences. In addition, she studies the use of science and citizen science in decision-making and community identity in relationship to place, with a focus on interpersonal and environmental communication. Her research attempts to strengthen our understanding of individual and collective behavior in various contexts to improve our ability to address societal issues. She is particularly interested in understanding and strengthening relationships between universities and the communities and individuals their work serves.

Selected Publications:

Bieluch, K.H., B. McGreavy, L. Silka, A. Strong, and D.D. Hart.  (2019). “Empowering Sustainability Leaders: Variations on a Learning-by-Doing Theme.” Developing Change Agents: Innovative Practices for Sustainability Leadership.  University of Minnesota Libraries.

Bolger, D., Bieluch, K., Krivak-Tetley, F., Maggs-Kölling, G., & Tjitekulu, J. (2018). Designing a Real-World Course for Environmental Studies Students: Entering a Social-Ecological System. Sustainability, 10(7), 2546.

Bieluch, Karen H. “.” Maine Policy Review 27.1 (2018) : 34 -35.

Bieluch, K.H., Silka, L, & Lindenfeld, LA. (accepted). Stakeholder preferences for process and outcomes in community-university research partnerships: Implications for research collaborations. Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship.

Bieluch, K.H., Willis, T.V., Smith, J., & Wilson, K.A. (2017). The complexities of counting fish: Engaging citizen scientists in fish monitoring. Maine Policy Review, 26(2), 9-18.

Bieluch, K.H., Bell, K.P., Teisl, M.F., Lindenfeld, L.A., Leahy, J. and Silka, L., (2017). Transdisciplinary research partnerships in sustainability science: an examination of stakeholder participation preferences. Sustainability Science, 12, 1-18. doi: 10.1007/s11625016-0360-x

Meyer, S. R., Levesque, V. R., Bieluch, K. H., Johnson, M. L., McGreavy, B., Dreyer, S., & Smith, H. (2015). Sustainability science graduate students as boundary spanners. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, 1-10.

McGreavy, B., Lindenfeld, L., Bieluch, K. H., Silka, L., Leahy, J., & Zoellick, B. (2015). Communication and sustainability science teams as complex systems. Ecology and Society, 20(1), 2.

Hutchins, K., Enterline, C., & Pierce, J. (2014). River Herring Fisheries: Significant Industries. Maine Townsman: Maine Municipal Association.

McGreavy, B., Hutchins, K., Smith, H., Lindenfeld, L. & Silka, L. (2013). Addressing the complexities of boundary work in sustainability science through communication. Sustainability, 5(10), 4195-4221.

Gardner, S.K., Jansujwicz, J., Hutchins, K., Cline, B., & Levesque, V. (2014). Socialization to Interdisciplinarity: Faculty and Student Perspectives. Higher Education, 67, 255-271.

Silka, L., Glover, R., Hutchins, K., Lindenfeld, L.A., Blackstone, A., Elliot, C., Ladenheim, M., & Sullivan, C. (2013) Moving Beyond the Single Discipline: Building a Scholarship of Engagement that Permeates Higher Education. TAMARA: Journal for Critical Organizational Inquiry, 11(4), 41-52.

Hutchins, K., Lindenfeld, L.A., Bell, K.P., Leahy, J. & Silka, L. (2013). Strengthening Knowledge Co-Production Capacity: Examining Interest in Community-University Partnerships. Sustainability, 5(9), 3744-3770.

Hutchins, K. & Stormer, N. (2013). Articulating Identity in and through Maine’s North Woods. Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, 7(1), 24-41.

Research Interests
Solid Waste
Small Business Development
Community Engagement

Research Projects:
Materials Management in Maine

Resources:
News article – Garbage Man

Degrees:

• University of Maine B.A. Economics
• University of Maine M.A. Financial Economics

Courses

• Macroeconomics
• Small Business Economics

Profile

Travis is a faculty associate with the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions. His research focus is materials management. He is also a lecturer and undergraduate coordinator for the University of Maine’s School of Economics. Travis is from Dedham, Maine and is a graduate of the University of Maine with both a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree from the School of Economics.

Travis was a project leader for the Maine Waste Characterization Study commissioned by the State Planning Office in 2011 to categorize Maine’s waste. Travis presented the findings at the 2012 Maine Resource Recovery Association’s annual conference. Travis has been doing independent research on solid waste since 2012 with a focus on program impacts on waste and recycling tonnages along with analyzing the impacts of attitudes and behaviors on outcomes with regard to Pay-As-You-Throw.

Travis has published both a staff paper on the Waste Characterization study with his former advisor George Criner and a journal article for the Maine Policy Review in the fall of 2014 with Dr. Criner as well. Travis has been the subject of several interviews conducted by public radio, local news, and other organizations. Travis presented the findings of his survey on PAYT attitudes and behaviors at the 2015 MRRA conference.

Selected Publications

Isenhour, C., Berry, B. Horton, S. MacRae, J. and Blackmer, T. ND. Taking It All In: Entanglement, Toxicity & Testing In New England’s Emerging Circular Food Systems. Paper in preparation for submission to Ecology and Society. (in process)

Isenhour, Cynthia, Blackmer, Travis, et al. 2018. “Waste in not the Maine Way” LD 1534 Stakeholder Working Group. Report for Maine’s Joint Standing Committee on the Environment and Natural Resources, January 10, 2018.

Blackmer, Travis, et al. 2017. Maine Army National Guard Waste Characterization Assessment Report. School of Economics Staff Paper #633. December 2017. pp 23.

Blackmer, Travis, et al. 2017. Maine Army National Guard Integrated Solid Waste Management Plan. Report for Maine Army National Guard. August 2017. pp 61.

Isenhour, Cynthia, Blackmer, Travis, et al. 2016. Moving up the Waste Hierarchy in Maine: Learning from “Best Practice” State Level Policy for Waste Reduction and Recovery. Maine Policy Review, 25(1), 15-29.

Isenhour, Cynthia, Blackmer, Travis, et al. 2015.

Blackmer, Criner, Isenhour, Hart, Peckenham, Rock, Rude, Silka.

Presentations

Isenhour*, C., Berry, B. Horton, S. MacRae, J. and Blackmer, T. 2019. Taking It All In: Entanglement, Toxicity & Testing In New England’s Emerging Circular Food Systems. Paper presentation at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, November 20-24, Vancouver, British Columbia.

Blackmer, Travis. 2019. Maine Food Loss Production Leadership Council Working Group. Facilitator. Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions. Maple Hill Farm Inn and Conference Center. Hallowell Maine. November 18, 2019.

MacRae*, J.D., C. Isenhour, T. Blackmer. A. Thakali, S. Horton, P. Larson. 2019. The perceived and measured risks associated with a more circular food system. Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors Conference 2019, Tempe, Arizona.

Blackmer, Travis. 2019. Regionally Sized Food Scrap Diversion. Presenter. Maine Resource Recovery Association’s Annual Recycling and Solid Waste Conference and Trade Show. Point Lookout. Rockland, Maine. April 29 & 30.

Thakali*, A., J.D. MacRae, T. Blackmer, P. Larson, A. Flynn, S. Horton. Does Contamination increase when Food Scrap Diversion is Required? Poster presented at NEWEA, Boston, MA January 29, 2019, and Maine Water and Sustainability Conference March 28, 2019.

Blackmer, Travis. 2018. The Future of Waste in Maine. Panelist. Maine Resource Recovery Association’s Annual Recycling and Solid Waste Conference and Trade Show. Samoset Resort. Rockland, Maine. April 23 & 24.

Blackmer, Travis. 2018. The Cost of Good Data. Panelist. Maine Resource Recovery Association’s Annual Recycling and Solid Waste Conference and Trade Show. Samoset Resort. Rockland, Maine. April 23 & 24.

Blackmer, Travis. 2018. What’s in Your Trash? Possibilities for how to refuse, rethink, repurpose, reduce, reuse, and recycle your waste. Keynote. Belfast Waste Zero Group. Belfast Free Public Library. Belfast, Maine. February 26.

Blackmer, Travis. 2018. LD 1534 Food Waste Commission. Presentation of LD 1534 Commission Report. Presentation to Maine’s Joint Standing Committee on the Environment and Natural Resources. Augusta, Maine. January 17.

Rooks, Jennifer (Host). (2017, May 4). (Blackmer, Travis as guest). Jonathan Smith (Producer). Maine Calling. Portland, Maine. Maine Public Radio.

Blackmer, Travis. 2017. Waste: Divert Everything…But Your Attention. Session Chair and Presenter. Maine Sustainability and Water Conference. Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions. Augusta, Maine. March 30.

Media Expertise:

• Water quality
• Coastal acidification
• Eutrophication
• Land-sea interactions
• Modeling

Research Interests:

• Affects of human uses on coasts and estuaries including aquaculture
• Offshore wind energy development
• Eutrophication

Research Projects:

• Strengthening Coastal Economies
• Safe Beaches & Shellfish Beds (NEST)

Education:

• Ph.D. University of Delaware 2008

Profile:

Damian Brady is a professor in the School of Marine Sciences at the Darling Marine Center. He earned his doctorate at the University of Delaware in 2008. His research combines approaches from disciplines including marine biology, biogeochemistry and environmental engineering to address questions about water quality and ecosystem function.

Since beginning work at the University of Maine in 2010, Brady has studied how coasts and estuaries are affected by human uses as varied as aquaculture, offshore wind energy development, and eutrophication. Brady is the environmental monitoring lead for 91����’s offshore wind energy projects and assistant director of a National Science Foundation project examining how climate change influences farmer decision-making and the consequences for local water quality.

Selected Publications:

Friedland, K., Moisan, J., Maureaud, A., Brady, D.C., Davies, A., Bograd, S.J., Watson, R.A., & Rousswau (in review) Trends in phytoplankton communities within large marine ecosystems diverge from the global ocean. Ecological Applications

Goode, A. & Brady, D.C. (in review) Evaluating benthic impact of the Gulf of Maine lobster fishery using the swept area seabed impact (SASI) model. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Liberti, C.M., Gray, M.W., Mayer, L., Testa, J.M., Liu, W. & Brady, D.C. (in revision) Auto-acidification: Examining the effects of oyster aquaculture on estuarine carbonate carrying capacity. Elementa: Special Issue on the Gulf of Maine 2050

Siedlecki, S.A., Salisbury, J., Gledhill, D.K., Bastidas, C., Meseck, S., McGarry, K., Hunt, C.W., Alexander, M., Lavoie, D., Wang, Z.A., Scott, J., Brady, D.C., Mlsna, I., Azetsu-Scott, K., Liberti, C.M., Melrose, D.C., White, M., Pershing, A., Vandemark, D., Townsend, D.W., Chen, Changsheng, Mook, W., & Morrison, R. (in review) Projecting ocean acidification impacts for the Gulf of Maine to 2050: New tools and expectations. Elementa: Special Issue on the Gulf of Maine 2050

Pershing, A., Alexander, M., Brady, D.C., Brickman, D., Curchitser, E., Diamond, T., McClenachan, L., Mills, K.E., Nichols, O.C., Pendleton, D., Record, N.R., Scott, J.,�� Staudinger, M.D., & Wang, Y. (in review) Climate Impacts in the Gulf of Maine Ecosystem: A Review of Observed and Expected Changes in 2050 from Rising Temperatures. Elementa: Special Issue on the Gulf of Maine 2050

Friedland, K.D., Morse, R.E., Shackell, N., Tam, J., Morano, J.L., Moisan, J.R., & Brady, D.C. (2020) Changing Physical Conditions and Lower and Upper Trophic Level Responses on the US Northeast Shelf. Frontiers in Marine Science  https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.567445

Bricknell, I.; Birkle, S.; Van Kirk, T. Hamlin, H.; Duffy, K.; Brawley, S.; Capistrant-Fossa, K.; Hugenard, K.; Byron, C.; Van Walsum, P.;  Liu , Z.; Zhu , L. ; Johnston, T.; Grebe, G.; Taccardi, E.; Miller, M.; Preziosi, B.; Brady, D.C.; Bowden, T.; Quigley, C.; Moeykens, (2020) Cold water aquaculture resilience, a review of the impact of likely scenarios in a climate change vulnerable ecological system. S. Reviews in Aquaculture. doi:10.1111/raq.12483

Beard, K., Kimble, M., Yuan, J., Evans, K.S., Liu, W., Brady, D.C., Moore, S. (2020) A method for heterogeneous spatio-temporal data integration in support of marine aquaculture site selection. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. 8 (2): 96-111

Wang, Z., Chai, F., & Brady, D.C. (2020) Development of a New Sediment Flux Model – Application in Chesapeake Bay. Progress in Oceanography. 185�� https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2020.102332

Friedland, K.D., Morse, R.E., Manning, J.P., Melrose, D.C., Miles, T., Goode, A.G., Brady, D. C.,  Kohut, J.T., Powell, E.N. (2020) Trends and change points in surface and bottom thermal environments of the US Northeast Continental Shelf Ecosystem. Fisheries Oceanography. 00: 1-19 https://doi.org/10.1111/fog.12485

Scherelis, C., Zydlewski, G.B. & Brady, D.C. (2019) Relating fluctuations in fish abundance to dam removal and environmental conditions in the Penobscot River, Maine, using hydroacoustics. River Research and Applications 36: 234-246 doi:10.1002/rra.3560

Adams, C.M., Mayer, L., Rawson, P., Brady, D.C., & Newell, C. (2019) Detrital protein contribution to oyster nutrition and growth in the Damariscotta estuary, Maine, USA. Aquaculture Environmental Interactions 11: 521-536 doi:10.3354/aei00330

Oppenheim, N., Wahle, R., Brady, D.C., Goode, A. & Pershing, A. (2019) Forecasting fishery trends in a warming ocean: A modeling framework using early life stages of the American lobster. Ecological Applications. 29(8), e02006 1-10 doi:10.1002/eap.2006

Goode, A., Brady, D.C., Steneck, R., & Wahle, R. (2019) The brighter side of climate change: Ocean warming crosses a biological threshold to amplify an iconic fishery. Global Change Biology 25: 3906– 3917 doi:10.1111/gcb.14778

Johnson, T.R., Beard, K., Brady, D.C., Byron, C.J., Cleaver, C., Duffy, K., Keeney, N., Kimble, M., Miller, M., Moeykens, S., Teisl, M., van Walsum, G.P., Yuan, J. (2019) A social-ecological systems framework to guide marine aquaculture research. Sustainability 11(9): 2522 doi:10.3390/su11092522

Staples, K. W., Chen, Y., Townsend, D. W. & Brady, D. C. (2019) Spatiotemporal variability in the phenology of the initial intra-annual molt of American lobster (Homarus americanus Milne Edwards, 1837) and its relationship with bottom temperatures in a changing Gulf of Maine. Fisheries Oceanography 28: 468-485 doi:10.1111/fog.12425

Gray, M. W., Chaparro, O., Huebert, K. B., O’Neill, S. P., Couture, T., Moreira, A., & Brady, D. C. (2019). Life history traits conferring larval resistance against ocean acidification: The case of brooding oysters of the Genus Ostrea. Journal of Shellfish Research, 38(3), 751-761. https://doi.org/10.2983/035.038.0326

Bayer, S.R., Wahle, R.A., Brady, D.C., Jumars, P.A., Stokesbury, K.D.E., & Carey, J.D. (2018) Fertilization dynamics in scallop aggregations: reconciling model predictions with field measurements. Ecosphere. 9(8), e02359.

Testa, J.M., Brady, D.C., Murphy, R., & Kemp, W.M. (2018) Nutrient- and climate-induced shifts in the phenology of linked biogeochemical cycles in a temperate estuary. Frontiers in Marine Science. 5(114), 1-15 doi:10.3389/fmars.2018.00114.

Friedland, K.D., Mouw, C.B., Asch, R.G., Ferreira, A.S.A., Henson, S., Hyde, K.J., Morse, R.E., Thomas, A.C., & Brady, D.C. (2018) Phenology and time series trends of the dominant seasonal phytoplankton bloom across global scales. Global Ecology and Biogeography 27(5), 551-569 doi:10.1111/geb.12717.

*Snyder, J., Boss, E., Weatherbee, R., Thomas, A., Brady, D.C., and Newell, C. (2017) Oyster aquaculture site selection using Landsat 8-derived sea surface temperature, turbidity, and chlorophyll a. Frontiers in Marine Science 4(190), 1-11 doi:10.3389/fmars.2017.00190.

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**Du Clos, K.T., Jones, I.T.,  Carrier, T.J., Brady, D.C., and Jumars, P.A. (2017) Model-assisted measurements of suspension-feeding flow velocities. Journal of Experimental Biology 220: 2096-2107.

**Highlighted photo winner in the JEB 2018 Calendar

Frederick, C., Brady, D.C., & Bricknell, I. (2017) Landing strips: Model development for estimating body surface area of farmed Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). Aquaculture 473: 299-302.

Li, B. ^a, Tanaka, K.R. ^a, Chen, Y., Brady, D.C., & Thomas, A.C. (2017) Assessing the quality of modeled bottom water temperatures from the Finite-Volume Community Ocean Model (FVCOM) in the Northwest Atlantic Region. Journal of Marine Systems. 173: 21-30. Journal Impact Factor: 2.499

McHenry, J. ^a, Steneck, R., & Brady, D.C. (2017) Abiotic proxies for predictive mapping of near-shore benthic assemblages: Implications for marine spatial planning. Ecological Applications 27: 603-618. Journal Impact Factor: 4.393

Media Expertise:

• Wetland Ecology, Policy, and Conservation
• Locally driven conservation planning
• Herpetology

Research Interests

• Wetland policy and conservation
• Vernal Pools
• Sustainability Science
• Human dimensions of natural resource conservation

Research Projects

• Localist approaches to wetland conservation
• Sustainability solutions through transdisciplinary collaboratives

Resources:

• Presentation – 2017 Maine Sustainability & Water Conference
• Talk –  (Vimeo)
• Website –

Degrees:

• University of Maine, Ph.D. (Plant Biology and Microbial Ecology)
• University of Rhode Island, M.S. (Natural Resources Science and Wetland Ecology)
• Rhode Island College, M.A. (Education)
• Brown University, A.B. (American Civilization)

Courses

• Graduate short-courses on conservation planning and facilitation and emerging issues in conservation biology

Profile

Aram Calhoun is a wetland ecologist and faculty member at the University of Maine. Her research focuses on wetland ecology and policy and vernal pool conservation. Her work stresses the importance of conserving natural resources (wetlands and vernal pools) and/or target species (wood frogs, spotted salamanders, and blue-spotted salamanders) on private lands by addressing both human and ecological dimensions.

Calhoun’s research with the Mitchell Center uses local vernal pool conservation as a model to help communities find ways to balance economic development with natural resource conservation on private land. One aspect of Calhoun’s research is working with two Maine towns on conservation solutions that involve multiple levels of government, diverse state agencies and private interests for the conservation of vernal pools. Her work also involves working with the Environment and Natural Resources Committee of the State Legislature on the importance of wetland and vernal pool protection.

Calhoun’s research has been funded in large part by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Science Foundation, Maine EPSCoR, and the Senator George J. Mitchell Center. She has published in multiple peer-reviewed journals including Proceedings of the Natural Academy of Science, Ecology, Biological Conservation, Forest Ecology and Management, Freshwater Biology, Society and Natural Resources, and Wetlands.

Selected Publications

Mushet, D.M., and Calhoun, A.J.K., in press,��Wetland conservation in the United States: a swinging pendulum. Pages XXX — XXX in Delgado, J., (ed) Soil and Water Conservation: A Celebration of 75 Years. Soil and Water Conservation Society Special Publication.

Boix, D., Calhoun, A.J.K., Mushet, D. M., Bell, K.P., Fitzsimons, J.A., Isselin-Nondedeu, F. 2020. Conservation of Temporary Wetlands. In: Encyclopedia of the World’s Biomes (eds Michael I. Goldstein and Dominik A. DellaSala), pp. 279-294.

Jansujwicz, J.S., Calhoun, A.J.K., Bieluch, K.H. et al. Localism “Reimagined”: Building a Robust Localist Paradigm for Overcoming Emerging Conservation Challenges. Environmental Management (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-020-01392-4

Eakin, C., A.J.K. Calhoun, and M. Hunter, Jr. 2019. Indicators of wood frog condition in a suburbanizing landscape. Ecosphere 10. 10.1002/ecs2.2789.

Eakin, C.J., Hunter, J.M., & Calhoun, A.J. 2019. The influence of land cover and within-pool characteristics on larval, froglet, and adult wood frogs along a rural to suburban gradient. Urban Ecosystems 22:493-505.

Levesque V., AJK Calhoun, and E. Hertz. 2019 Vernal pool conservation: Innovative approaches to using and enhancing existing policy tools. Case Studies in the Environment. Article ID: CSE-2018-001636

Levesque, V., AJK Calhoun, and KP Bell. 2019. Actions speak louder than words: Designing transdisciplinary approaches to enact solutions. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences 9: 1029-1041.

Hoffmann, K., M. Hunter, Jr., A.J.K. Calhoun, and J. Bogart 2018. Post-breeding migration and habitat of unisexual salamanders in Maine, USA. Journal of Herpetology 52:273-281

Jansujwicz, J. S. and A.J.K. Calhoun. 2017. Community-based Strategies for Strengthening Science and Influencing Policy: Vernal Pool Initiatives in Maine. Maine Policy Review 26: 33-42

Creed, I.F. 2017. IF. Creed; CR. Lane; J N. Serran; LC. Alexander ;NB. Basu, AJ.K. Calhoun;J R. Christensen, M J. Cohen, C Craft, E D’Amico, E DeKeyser, L Fowler; H E. Golden, J W. Jawitz, P Kalla; L. K Kirkman, M Lang, S G. Leibowitz, DB. Lewis, J Marton, D L. McLaughlin, H Raanan-Kiperwas, M C. Rains, K C. Rains and L. Smith . Enhancing protections for vulnerable waters. Nature Geoscience 10:809–815.

Calhoun, AJK, D. Mushet, LC Alexander, E.S.Dekeyser,L. Fowler,C.R.Lane, M.W.Lang, MC Rains,SC Richter,and SC Walls. 2017. The significant surface-water connectivity of “Geographically Isolated” Wetlands. DOI 10.1007/s13157-017-0887-3.

Calhoun AJK, Mushet DM, Bell KP, Boix D, Fizsimons JA, Isselin-Nondedeu F. 2017. Temporary wetlands: challenges and solutions for protecting a “disappearing” ecosystem. Biological Conservation 211:3-11.

Cohen, M.J., I.F. Creed, L. Alexander, N.B. Basu, A.J.K. Calhoun, et al. 2016. Do geographically isolated wetlands influence landscape functions? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113:1978-1986.

Levesque, V., A.J.K. Calhoun, and K.P. Bell. 2016. Turning contention into collaboration: Engaging power, trust, and learning in collaborative networks. Society and Natural Resources.

Levesque, V.R., K.P. Bell, and A.J.K. Calhoun. 2016. Planning for sustainability in small municipalities: The influence of interest groups, growth patterns, and institutional characteristics. Journal of Planning Education and Research.

Groff, L.A., A.J.K. Calhoun, and C. Loftin.. 2016 . Hibernal ecology and habitat selection of wood frogs (Lithobates sylvaticus) in a northern New England montane landscape. Journal of herpetology.

Mushet, D.M., A.J.K. Calhoun, L.C. Alexander, et al. 2015. Geographically isolated wetlands: Rethinking a misnomer. Wetlands 35:423-431

Faculty, Ecology and Environmental Sciences Program
Faculty, Initiative for One Health & the Environment

Website:

Courses:

• INT308 – Conservation and Ecology of Marine Mammals
• SMS203 – Introduction to Integrative Marine Science
• SMS598 – Ecological and Conservation Genomics

Research Interests

• Marine mammal science
• Ecological and evolutionary genomics
• Ocean health
• Conservation Biology

Degrees
Ph.D., Ecology, Duke University
M.Phil., Zoology, University of Cambridge
B.S., Biology & Psychology, University of Maryland

Profile:

Kristina is an associate professor of marine mammal science in the School of Marine Sciences. Her research program focuses on improving our understanding of marine mammal ecology and ocean health, and advancing the use of genomic techniques in conservation biology. She currently has active research projects investigating gray and harbor seals in the Gulf of Maine, particularly in relation to historical bottlenecks, recent recovery, and emerging diseases. In addition, she is exploring new areas of research to better understand the impacts of anthropogenic activities, such as ocean noise, tidal turbines, and tourism on marine mammals. These projects involve collaborations within and beyond the Mitchell Center and the University of Maine, including both governmental and nongovernmental agencies that contribute to developing stakeholder-engaged, solutions-driven research methods.

Kristina’s research program aims to address issues at the intersection of human-wildlife conflict, particularly in relation to perceived competition of protected species and marine resource users, including fishermen. She is working to facilitate new interdisciplinary research collaborations to tackle these types of questions related to marine mammal ecology and conservation that span the human-natural dimensions and address issues of sustainability and ecosystem health in our coastal systems.

Selected Publications

Homola, J.J., Loftin, C.S., Cammen, K.M., Helbing, C.C., Birol, I., Schultz, T.F., Kinnison, M.T. (2019). Replicated landscape genomics identifies evidence of local adaptation to urbanization in wood frogs. Journal of Heredity. 110(6), 707-719.

Cammen, K. M., Rasher, D. B., & Steneck, R. S. (2019). Predator recovery, shifting baselines, and the adaptive management challenges they create. Ecosphere,��10(2), e02579.

Cammen, K.M., Schultz, T.F., Bowen, W.D., Hammill, M.O., Puryear, W.B., Runstadler, J., Wenzel, F.W., Wood, S.A., Kinnison, M.T. (2018). Genomic signatures of population bottleneck and recovery in Northwest Atlantic pinnipeds. Ecology and Evolution,��8(13), 6599-6614.

Cammen KM, Vincze S, Heller S, McLeod BA, Wood SA, Bowen WD, Hammill MO, Puryear WB, Runstadler J, Wenzel FW, Kinnison M, Frasier TR (2018) Genetic diversity from bottleneck to recovery in two sympatric pinniped species in the Northwest Atlantic. Conservation Genetics 19: 555-569.

Jayasundara N, Fernando PW, Osterberg JS, Cammen KM, Schultz TF, Di Guilio RT (2017) Cost of tolerance: fitness consequences of contemporary evolution to an anthropogenic stressor in teleost fish. Environmental Science & Technology. 15:8673-8772.

Cammen KM, Andrews KR, Carroll EL, Foote AD, Humble E, Khudyakov JI, Louis M, McGowen MR, Olsen MT, Van Cise AM (2016) Genomic methods take the plunge: recent advances in high throughput sequencing of marine mammals. Journal of Heredity. 107:481-495.

Media Expertise

• American Indians and Climate Change
• Indigenous Voices in Adaptation Planning

Research Interests

• Cultural Impacts of Large-Scale Environmental Changes
• Forest Resource Management
• Sustainability Science
• Outdoor Recreation Planning and Management
• Social Research Methods for Natural Resource Professionals
• Human Dimensions of Natural Resources Management

Research Projects
Sustaining Wabanaki Traditions through Adaptation: Preparing for the Emerald Ash Borer in Maine

News and Updates

• 91���� study identifies strategies for research and collaboration led by Indigenous communities (Mitchell Center/91���� News, April 2021)

Degrees

• University of Massachusetts, Ph.D. (Forestry)
• Colorado State University, M.S. (Recreation Management and Landscape Architecture)
• University of Maine, B.S. (Recreation and Parks Management)

Courses

• SFR 228: Forest Recreation Management
• SFR 301: Field Course in Parks, Recreation and Tourism
• SFR 434: Recreation Site Planning and Management
• SFR 479/613: Environmental Attitudes and Behaviors
• SFR 480: Wilderness and Protected Areas Management
• SFR 491: Parks, Recreation and Tourism Capstone

Profile

John Daigle is a tribal member of the Penobscot Indian Nation and a program leader for the Parks, Recreation and Tourism program at the University of Maine. Throughout his career he has been fascinated by the connections people make with places and with the socio-cultural functions of outdoor activities that connect people, identity, and meaning. His research has focused on identifying these connections in order to assist with the management of outdoor recreation. This has involved examining ways to create bridges between educators, policy makers, stakeholders, and natural resource managers in order to facilitate planning around threats such as invasive species and climate change.

Daigle is involved with the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) project. His research team seeks to study and facilitate the ways that Wabanaki basket makers, tribes, state and federal foresters, university researchers, landowners, and others can come together to prevent, detect, and respond to the potential threat of the EAB in Maine. Daigle worked closely with members of the Maine Public Broadcasting Network to assist in the development of a television program for the SSI Emerald Ash Borer project. This included planning with the film crew for several field trips with basket tree harvesters, conducting discussions with the producer, and editing the television program script.

Daigle has also helped mobilize climate change planning by developing a framework for collaboration among various stakeholders and the Wabanaki Nations of Maine. In 2008, he became part of an interdisciplinary team of faculty at the University of Maine tasked with identifying potential climate scenarios and their probabilities for Maine for the remainder of the 21st century. Daigle led a team that explored the meaning of a changed environment as it relates to the Indigenous peoples of Maine and continues efforts with planning and management for the Emerald Ash Borer in Maine.

John Daigle currently advises or co-advises three Ph.D. students, two M.S. students, and one M.F. student. All students are fully or partially supported by extramural funds from the National Science Foundation, Maine Agricultural Forest Experiment Station, USDA Forest Service, and Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), and private non-profit entities such as Friends of the Allagash Wilderness Waterway Foundation and Friends of Acadia. His most recent graduated Ph.D. students work in state government positions in Maine and Colorado but others hold positions at the University of Maine, Clemson, Plymouth State University, College of the Atlantic, Marshall, University of Wisconsin at Whitewater, and Radford.

In addition to his teaching and research duties, Daigle is on the editorial boards of Forest Science and International Journal of Wilderness. He previously served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Wildlife Management and Monographs and Human Dimensions of Wildlife. He currently serves on the board of Allagash Wilderness Waterway Foundation. In past years he served on the board of The Nature Conservancy of Maine.

Selected Publications

Daigle, J.J., Michelle, N., Ranco, D.J., Emery, M.R. 2019. Traditional lifeways and storytelling: Tools for adaptation and resilience to ecosystem change. Human Ecology, Published online October 19, 2019.

Daigle, J.J., Straub, C.L., Leahy, J.E., De Urioste-Stone, S.M., Ranco, D.J. & Siegart, N.W. 2018. Campers and behaviors of firewood transport: An application of involvement theory and beliefs about invasive forest pests. Forest Science, 65(3), 363-372. ��Ǿ�:��

De Urioste-Stone, S.M., McLaughlin, W.J., Daigle, J., & Fefer, J.P.* 2018. Applying the case study methodology to tourism research. In R. Nunkoo (Ed.), Handbook of research methods in tourism and hospitality management, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Horne, L., De Urioste-Stone, S.M., Daigle, J. & Noblet, C. 2018. Using pile sorts to understand perceptions of climate change. WIT Transactions of Ecology and the Environment, 227, 175-183.

Kuentzel, W. F., Daigle, J. J. Chase, L. C., and Brown, T. L. 2018. The social amplification of risk and landowner liability fear in the U.S. Northern Forest. Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism 21: 51-60.

Fefer, J., De Urioste-Stone, S.M., Daigle, J. & Silka, L. 2018. Understanding the perceived effectiveness of applying the Visitor Experience and Resource Protection (VERP) framework for recreation planning: A multi-case study in U.S. National Parks. The Qualitative Report, 23(7), 1561-1582

Daigle, J.J., Opuszynski, W., and Laroche, M. 2017. Fifteen years of change: Campsites in the Allagash Wilderness Waterway. International Journal of Wilderness 23(1): 18-24.

Constanza, K.K.L., W.H. Livingston, D.M. Kashian, R.A. Slesak, J.C. Tardiff, J.P. Dech, A.K. Diamond, et al. 2017. The precarious state of a cultural keystone species: Tribal and biological assessments of the role and future of black ash. Journal of Forestry. 115: 435-446.

Fefer, J.P., S. De Urioste-Stone, J. Daigle, and L. Silka. 2016. Using the Delphi technique to identify key elements for effective and sustainable visitor use planning frameworks. SAGE Open, April-June: 1-16.

Collum, K. K., and J. J. Daigle. 2015. Combining attitude theory and segmentation analysis to understand travel mode choice at a national park. Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism 9: 17-25.

Daigle, J. 2015. Alternative Transportation Practice in U.S. National Parks: A systematic-wide transit inventory and exploration of opportunities and challenges going into the future. Ch. 13. (p. 168-180) In: Orsi, F., ed.,��Sustainable Transportation in Natural and Protected Areas. Earthscan Routledge, London.

Collum, K., and J. Daigle. 2015. The shift from automobiles to alternatives and the role of intelligent transportation systems. Ch. 5. (p.57-69) In: Orsi, F., ed.,��Sustainable Transportation in Natural and Protected Areas. Earthscan Routledge, London.

Member of the Mitchell Center Leadership Council 

Website:

Courses:

• SFR 444/544 Forest Resource Economics
• SFR 446/546– Forest Policy
• SFR 548 – Quantitative Social Science for Natural Resource Management

Research Interests

• Land use and land cover change
• Climate change and freshwater policy analysis
• Partial and general equilibrium modelling
• Community resilience
• Timber market analysis
• Benefits and costs of invasive species management

Mitchell Center Research Projects

• Developing Economic and Community Resilience Indicators for the Katahdin Region
• Assessing the Climate Mitigation Potential of Maine Agriculture
• Valuing the Economic Benefits of Maine’s Great Ponds in the 21st Century

Resources:

• Maine lakes are worth $14 billion, according to 91���� study
  91���� News, June 2024
• 
  Mitchell Center Talk, Fall 2024
• ‘Maine Calling’ segment on sustainable forests features Daigneault
  Mitchell Center News, 2024
• 91����-led delegation of students, faculty attending UN climate summit
  91���� News, October 2022
• 
  91���� News, September 2022
• Return on investment: Making the business case for conserving watersheds
  Mitchell Center News, October 2021
• 91����’s Natural Climate Solutions Initiative releases interim report on Maine land sector’s greenhouse gas mitigation potential
  91���� News (September 2020)
• Challenges and change: Cultivating resilience in rural communities
  Mitchell Center News (September 2020)
• Daigneault to put forests, farms to work reducing greenhouse gases
  91���� News (March 2020)
• Mitchell Center Talk: “Out on a limb: Measuring ‘resilience’ in natural resource-dependent communities” (October 2018)
  Presenters: Adam Daigneault and Linda Silka
  • Link to PowerPoint presentation