{"id":6853,"date":"2015-04-07T11:09:51","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T15:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/?p=6853"},"modified":"2017-02-07T14:55:52","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T19:55:52","slug":"diverse-sustainability-and-water-research-reflected-in-conference-posters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/2015\/04\/07\/diverse-sustainability-and-water-research-reflected-in-conference-posters\/","title":{"rendered":"Diverse Sustainability and Water Research Reflected in Conference Posters"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Student<\/a>The poster exhibition at this year\u2019s Maine Sustainability & Water Conference reflected the conference\u2019s broadening agenda on urgent issues affecting New England and beyond. Diverse research on citizen science, fisheries, energy conservation and other sustainability topics grabbed the interest of attendees, who had a midday opportunity to peruse the poster gallery.<\/p>\n

The poster session offered students from the high school to graduate level an opportunity to present innovative research and early conclusions. Awards were given to poster presenters on three levels.<\/p>\n

Andrew Moreira, a senior at Old Town High School and winner of the high school competition, said the conference gave him a chance to present research in a somewhat rarified environment, at least for a high school kid. The result, he says, is a win-win across the board: for young researchers, for academia and for the fast-moving field of sustainability science.<\/p>\n

\u201cParticipating in scientific research allows high school students to build upon their curiosity or discover a new passion,\u201d Moreira said. \u201cI believe we need fresh scientific perspectives. And getting high school students involved in scientific research now is key to improving the world of today and the world of tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moreira\u2019s research looked at finding an industrially viable way to convert organic acids into fuel. Experimenting with the creation of organic salts through the reactions of divalent bases and organic acids: \u201cFrom the data we collected we can conclude that the process of creating oil from organic acid is possible,\u201d he said. See more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The poster exhibition at this year\u2019s Maine Sustainability & Water Conference reflected the conference\u2019s broadening agenda on urgent issues affecting New England and beyond. Diverse research on citizen science, fisheries, energy conservation and other sustainability topics grabbed the interest of attendees, who had a midday opportunity to peruse the poster gallery. The poster session offered […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":3,"label":"News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"mitchellcenter","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/author\/mitchellcenter\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":3,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":613,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":613,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11630,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6853\/revisions\/11630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}