School of Marine Sciences and Dept. of Wildlife, Fisheries and Conservation Biology Joint Seminar October 21, 2016 11:00 a.m. ~ Senator George Mitchell Center Dr. Brian Bergamaschi USGS – Sacramento Field Office The Estuarine Axis of Evil: How Tidal Wetlands Toxify Mercury From the Air and Spit It Out Into Coastal Waters Elevated mercury levels […]

Speaker: Sharon Klein, assistant professor, School of Economics, University of Maine “Community energy” is a growing movement in the US and around the world. People are adopting sustainable energy technologies and strategies (renewable energy, energy efficiency, conservation) in groups and/or on shared property, in contrast to traditional individualistic adoption. What is motivating this group adoption? […]

Many scholars have called for a paradigm shift in fisheries governance away from management approaches that require definitive information about stock size and dynamics to those that build social-ecological resilience. In this rapidly growing body of research, adaptability is routinely described as one of a short list of mechanisms, along with modularity, diversity, and transformability, […]

Speaker: Heather Leslie, Director, Darling Marine Center and Libra Associate Professor, School of Marine Sciences, University of Maine