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How do Dam Decisions get Made?

UMaine MS student Sarah Vogel is investigating the human side of dam relicensing.

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February 14, 2018

NEST Student Spotlight: Sophie Scott

Sophie Scott's research reflected her roots, focusing on local ecological knowledge among surfing communities in the Gulf of Maine.

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December 4, 2017

Resilience Frontiers for Global Sustainability

Bridie McGreavy and Sam Roy represented NEST at Resilience 2017, an international sustainability conference in Stockholm, Sweden.

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October 11, 2017

2017 Mitchell Lecture on Sustainability: Facts versus Values: How can we make better decisions?

The keynote speaker will be Thomas Dietz, Michigan State University, who will discuss how research on decision making provides ideas on how we can move forward to make decisions that better reflect both the facts and our values.

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September 14, 2017

TALK - Damming Decisions: Searching for sustainable solutions in New England rivers

Future of Dams researcher Sam Roy will be giving a talk as part of the Mitchell Center's sustainability speaker series on Monday, September 11 at 3pm.

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September 7, 2017

New Project from the Mitchell Center: Getting Over the Dam

Atlantic salmon populations in Maine have declined over previous decades and remain critically low. With partners in NOAA, FWS and others, this project examines the social-science/policy interface of Atlantic salmon recovery decision making in Maine.

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August 16, 2017

Inaugural 'Learning from Dams' course puts students in the driver's seat

An innovative multi-institution course puts graduate and undergraduate students from a host of different disciplines and institutions into the thick of a complex decision-making process.

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July 6, 2017

Clam Cam offers glimpse of lives, challenges of clam harvesters

The Clam Cam project - built by former NEST Safe Beaches & Shellfish researchers - captures the hard manual labor that goes into securing even a few pounds of fresh local clams for dinner.

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May 22, 2017

UMaine Researchers Present Recommendations to Improve and Adapt Maine’s Shellfish Management System

Three years of investigation by NEST’s Safe Beaches & Shellfish project has resulted in recommendations that will help improve Maine's shellfish co-management system.

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March 27, 2017

TALK: Surfing the Wave of Sustainability Science

Former Safe Beaches & Shellfish grad student Sophie Scott will be the guest speaker at a Southern Maine Conservation Collaborative event presented at the Portland Public Library.

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March 13, 2017

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Funding for the website provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Awards #1920908 and #11A-1330691 to the University of Maine, NSF EPSCoR Awards #11A-1330641 and #11A-1539071 to the University of New Hampshire. Photo of Kesslen Dam on the Mousam River courtesy of John Burrows, Mousam & Kennebunk Rivers Alliance.