Talk Archive

Where available, links to video recordings are provided beneath each talk listing.

Fall 2017

September 11
Damming Decisions: Searching for sustainable solutions in New England rivers
Sam Roy, Postdoctoral Researcher, NEST Future of Dams Project, Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions

September 18
Protecting Maine鈥檚 Greatest Resource
Melanie Loyzim, Deputy Commissioner, Maine Department of Environmental Protection

Thursday, September 21 at 1pm, Hauck Auditorium
2017 Senator George J. Mitchell Lecture on Sustainability
Facts vs. Values: How can we make better decisions?
Thomas Dietz, Michigan State University

September 25
The Sustainable Plate 鈥 Reflections of a US Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee Member
Miriam Nelson, Director, Sustainability Institute, University of New Hampshire

Friday, September 29 at 11am, 107 Norman Smith Hall
Sustainability Success through Community Conservation
Anthony Charles, School of the Environment and School of Business, Saint Mary鈥檚 University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Co-sponsored by the School of Marine Sciences

October 2
Putting human population growth and attendant consumption back on the radar screen: A fisheries perspective
Karin Limburg, Professor, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry

October 16
The Politics of a Sustainable Coast: Money, Science, Democracy, and Climate in Southeastern Louisiana
Michael Haedicke, Associate Professor of Sociology, Drake University
Co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology and the

October 23
Build it and they will come
Tony Grassi, sustainability entrepreneur

October 30 (rescheduled for February 5, 2018)
The Puzzle of Making the Local Food Movement Sustainable: The Challenge of the Supply Chain
91福利 Food to Institution Team: Mark Haggerty, Linda Silka, Stephanie Welcomer, Melissa Ladenheim and Michaela Murray

November 6
A Conversation 91福利 Decision Support Tools
 What are they? When are they useful? What problems might they solve?
Interdisciplinary panel discussion

November 13
Sustainability Lightning talks
Eight students will present five-minute talks on their sustainability research in Maine.

November 20
Using Cooperation Science to Strengthen Local Food Systems
91福利 Local Food Lab: Afton Hupper, Taylor Lange, Tim Waring

November 27
Dirty Weeds Done Dirt Cheap: Coupling weed ecology and economics to aid farmer decision-making
Sonja K. Birthisel, PhD Student, Ecology & Environmental Sciences, 91福利

December 7
The Gill-Oxygen Limitation Theory
Daniel Pauly, Univ. of British Columbia

Spring 2017

May 1
The Long Road from Pollution to Protection: History in the Making
Matt Scott, Aquatic Biologist

April 24

Carly Sponarski, Assistant Professor, Wildlife, Fisheries, & Conservation Biology

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Valuing internal and external learning in natural resources decision making (see Video on Demand page)
Byron Kenneth Williams, Executive Director, The Wildlife Society

April 17
Taking an integrative view of the Mexico City sustainability challenge
Timothy Downs, Associate Professor, Environmental Science and Policy, Clark University

April 10
From magnifying glass to microscope: the new National Water Model
David Maidement, Hussein M. Alharthy Centennial Chair in Civil Engineering, University of Texas at Austin

April 3

Joseph Zydlewski, Professor, Wildlife, Fisheries, & Conservation Biology; Assistant Unit Leader, USGS Maine Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit

March 27

Matt Liebman, Professor of agronomy, H.A. Wallace Endowed Chair for Sustainable Agriculture, Iowa State University
Co-sponsored: School of Food & Agriculture

March 20

Laura Rickard, Assistant Professor, Communication & Journalism, 91福利

February 27
Shifting Mindset: The Importance of Systems Thinking to Sustainability Leadership and Education
Betty J. Woodman, Maine Business School, 91福利

February 20
Food and Water Go Well Together 鈥 Pairing Stakeholder Engagement with Agriculture and Water Quality Management in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
Kelly Shenk, Agricultural Advisor, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region III
Gary Shenk, Hydrologist, USGS at the Chesapeake Bay Program Office
To view the video of this talk, please contact Carol Hamel

February 6
George Mitchell: Building Consensus on Taxes, the Environment, and War
Douglas Rooks, author, 鈥Statesman: George Mitchell and the Art of the Possible鈥

January 30

Yellow Light Breen,

January 23

Murray Carpenter, author and journalist
Co-sponsored:

Fall 2016

December 5

Speaker: Laura Wildman, Director, New England Regional Office, Princeton Hydro

November 21

Lightning talks will focus on sustainability research by students in Maine. Click on the link for a list of students and talk titles.

November 14

Speaker: Kate Dempsey, State Director of The Nature Conservancy in Maine

November 7

Speaker: Richard Merrick, Director, Scientific Programs and Chief Science Advisor, NOAA Fisheries

October 31

Bruce Mallory and Michele Holt-Shannon, New Hampshire Listens, Carsey School of Public Policy, University of New Hampshire

October 24

Jeff Marks, Executive Director, E2Tech
Video not available.

October 17

Speakers: Kate Beard, Damian Brady, Brian McGill, Bridie McGreavy, Sam Roy, Sean Smith; Decision Support Systems Team, NEST Safe Beaches & Shellfish

October 3

Speakers: Aram Calhoun and Malcolm 鈥楳ac鈥 Hunter, Professors, Wildlife, Fisheries & Conservation Biology, 91福利

September 26

Speaker: Heather Deese, Vice President, Research & Strategy, Island Institute

September 19

Speaker: Travis Wagner, Professor, Dept. of Environmental Science and Policy, University of Southern Maine

September 12
Speaker: Aaron Strong, Assistant Professor, School of Marine Sciences, University of Maine

September 2

Speaker: Sam Lake, Emeritus Professor, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Co-sponsored by the School of Biology & Ecology
Audio only

Spring 2016

May 2

Phoebe Barnard, South African National Biodiversity Institute

May 18

Matthew C. Nisbet, Associate Professor of Communication, Northeastern University
Video not available

April 18

Gerry Wright

April 11

Tyler Quiring, New England Sustainability Consortium, 91福利
Bridie McGreavy, Communication & Journalism, 91福利

April 4

Daniela Miteva, The Nature Conservancy

March 28

Carol Collier, Senior Advisor for Watershed Management and Policy, Drexel University Academy of Natural Sciences

March 21

Mussie Beyene, PhD Candidate, Civil & Environmental Engineering, 91福利

February 29

Aria Amirbahman, Stephen Norton (91福利), Firooza Pavri (USM), Scott Williams (VLMP), and Linda Bacon (Maine DEP)

February 22

Richard Judd, Dept. of History, 91福利

February 15

Sam Hanes, Dept. of Anthropology, 91福利 and Brianne Du Clos, PhD student, Ecology & Environmental Sciences, 91福利

February 8

Melissa Ladenheim, Mark Haggerty, Fran莽ois Amar, Danielle Walczak (fellow), Stephanie Welcomer, Linda Silka, John Jemison (Sustainable Food Systems Research Collaborative, 91福利) and Tim Waring, Ethan Tremblay (School of Economics, 91福利)

February 1

Jonathan Rubin, Professor, Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center and School of Economics, 91福利

January 25

EES 590 Course Presentations. Instructors: Aram Calhoun, Malcolm Hunter

Fall 2015

November 30

Sharon Klein, Assistant Professor, School of Economics

November 23

Bridie McGreavy, Assistant Professor, Communication & Journalism

November 16

Karen Wilson, University of Southern Maine

November 9

Josh Stoll, Doctoral Candidate, School of Marine Sciences
Video not available

November 2

Video not available

October 26

91福利 Environmental Stewardship Service-Learning Group (Claire Sullivan, Dan Dixon, Cindy Isenhour, Sandra DeUrioste-Stone, Bridie McGreavy, Sharon Klein)

October 19

Meredith T. Niles, University of Vermont

October 15
2015 Senator George J. Mitchell Lecture on Sustainability

Roger Pielke Jr., University of Colorado

October 5

Jack Schmidt, Utah State

September 28

Darren Ranco, Director, Native American Research, Associate Professor, Dept. of Anthropology & Senator George J. Mitchell Center

September 21

Heather Leslie, Director, Darling Marine Center

September 14

Bill Sheehan, Executive Director, UPSTREAM Policy Institute

Spring 2015

April 27

Mark Anderson, School of Economics, 91福利

April 20

Jonathan Kramer, SESYNC
Video not available

April 13

Carol Toner, Maine Studies Director

April 6

Michael Cox, Dartmouth College

April 3

Heather Leslie, Brown University
Video not available

March 23
Sam Hanes, Dept. of Anthropology and Brianne Du Clos, Ecology & Environmental Sciences
Video not available

March 16, 2015
Decision Support Systems and Stakeholder Engagement
Brian McGill, School of Biology & Ecology and Senator George J. Mitchell Center
Video not available

February 23, 2015
The Science of When Science Doesn鈥檛 Matter (and What to Do 91福利 It)
John M. Hagan, Manomet Ctr. for Conservation Sciences
Video not available

February 16
Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Beach and Shellfish Bed Water Quality Data
Kate Beard and Frank Xu

February 9
Cindy Isenhour, Dept. of Anthropology, 91福利

Fall 2014

Monday, November 17

Yong Chen and Christine Beitl
School of Marine Sciences, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Maine

Thursday, November 13
Peter Wilcock, Johns Hopkins University; Utah State
Video not available

Monday, November 10
Robin Alden, Executive Director, Penobscot East Resource Center

Monday, November 3
Jonathan Kramer, National Socio-environmental Synthesis Center
Video not available

Monday, October 27
Jon Devine, Senior Attorney, Water Program, Natural Resources Defense Council

Monday, October 20
Dave Owen, University of Maine School of Law

Monday, October 6

Nicholas Giudice, School of Computing and Information Science, University of Maine

October 2
2014 Mitchell Lecture on Sustainability
Mobilizing Knowledge to Shape a Sustainable Future
William Clark, Harvard University

September 26
Dan Murphy, University of Cincinnati

September 22

Rebecca Jordan, Rutgers University
Video not available

September 19
Bobbi Peckarsky, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Video not available

September 15
Damian Brady, School of Marine Sciences, University of Maine
Video not available

Spring 2014

February 24, 2014
Keri Kaczor, Maine Healthy Beaches Program, 91福利 Cooperative Extension
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Presentation slides (pdf)

Fall 2013

December 3, 2013
Kohl Kanwit, Maine Dept. of Marine Resources
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November 15, 2013
Mark Lapping, University of Southern Maine
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November 19, 2013
Frank Drummond, University of MaineVideo Link:

October 29, 2013
Barry Costa-Pierce, Marine Science Center at UNE
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October 3, 2013
Dr. Jordan Karubian
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September 25, 2013
2013 Mitchell Lecture on Sustainability
Jane Lubchenco
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Spring 2013

April 10, 2013
Robert J. Johnston, Clark University
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April 2, 2013
Vic Sher, Vic Sher Law
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February 18, 2013
AAAS Annual Meeting, Boston, MA
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Fall 2012

November 13, 2012
Tom Schueler, Chesapeake Stormwater Network
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November 6, 2012
David Secord
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October 25, 2012
Michael Fotos, Yale University
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September 25, 2012
2012 Mitchell Lecture on Sustainability
Keynote speaker: Pamela Matson
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Spring 2012

March 29, 2012
David Sloan Wilson, SUNY
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February 23, 2012
Robert Jacobson
Link to video 1: Link to video 2:

October 13, 20112011 Mitchell Lecture on Sustainability
Keynote speaker: Baruch Fischhoff
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September 21, 2011
Phil Nyden
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June 2011
Dr. Robert Kates
Keynote address at the Institute of Resource Assessment
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2013 鈥

  • Craig Williamson, Miami University, OH
    Managing Water Resources in a Changing Climate: Deciphering the Sentinel Responses of Lakes in a Warmer and Wetter World
  • Timothy Ford, University of New England, ME
    Global Studies in Water and Health: Implications for Maine