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Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions Fall 2016 Seminar Series

Release Date: 
September 8, 2016

Mark your calendars for the Mitchell Center's Fall 2016 seminars - this semester's speakers are set to discuss a wide range of engaging topics in natural resources and sustainability.

All seminars are at 3pm in 107 Norman Smith Hall unless otherwise indicated.

Seminars will also be available as a live stream at UNH in Gregg Hall, Room 130.

September 12

Does the value of nature depend on whom you ask? Should it?
Speaker: Aaron Strong, Assistant Professor, School of Marine Sciences, University of Maine

September 19

Banning the Bag: Local Government Opportunities in Sustainable Materials 
Speaker: Travis Wagner, Professor, Dept. of Environmental Science and Policy, University of Southern Maine

September 26

Indicators of Community Well-Being for Maine’s Coast and Islands: Initial Results and Opportunities for Collaborative Research
Speaker: Heather Deese, Vice President, Research & Strategy, Island Institute

October 3

Conserving Small Natural Features with Large Ecological Importance
Speakers: Aram Calhoun and Malcolm ‘Mac’ Hunter, Professors, Wildlife, Fisheries & Conservation Biology, UMaine

October 17

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

October 24

Maine’s Energy Planning Roadmap – An Opportunity for Collaboration
Jeff Marks, Executive Director, E2Tech

October 31

Bridging Political and Social Divides: Stories from a Civic Engagement Project
Bruce Mallory and Michele Holt-Shannon, New Hampshire Listens, Carsey School of Public Policy, University of New Hampshire

November 7

Resilient Communities and Fisheries Arise from Resilient Ecosystems
Speaker: Richard Merrick, Director, Scientific Programs and Chief Science Advisor, NOAA Fisheries

November 14

Scaling Conservation: Translating Local Success into Global Impact
Speaker: Kate Dempsey, State Director of The Nature Conservancy in Maine

November 21

TBA

November 28

Title: TBA
Jeff Roberts, Principal Consultant, Vermont Institute of Artisan Cheese

December 5

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

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Contact

Center for Research on Sustainable Forests

5755 Nutting Hall, Room 263

Orono, ME 04469
Phone: 207.581.3794 | Email: crsf@maine.edu

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