October 29, 2008
News from the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental and Watershed Research Headlines:
Mitchell Center Fall Seminar Series
Following on from the September 18th Mitchell Lecture on the Environment featuring keynote speaker Mary Evelyn Tucker, the Mitchell Center will host three more seminars this fall focusing on Humanities Perspectives on Environmental Stewardship.
Richard Judd, UMaine Dept. of History
Science, Religion and the Origins of Conservation Thought in America
Thursday, November 6
12noon - 1pm
Room 107, Norman Smith Hall, UMaine, Orono
Andy Mauery, UMaine Dept. of Art
Title: TBA
Thursday, November 20
3:30pm - 4:30pm
Room 107, Norman Smith Hall, UMaine, Orono
Darren Ranco, UMaine Dept. of Anthropology, Director of Native American Research
Our 'Indian Distinction': Penobscot Indian Diplomacy and Critiques of Participation in Environmental Decision Making
Thursday, December 4
12noon - 1pm
Room 107, Norman Smith Hall, UMaine, Orono
Please contact Ruth Hallsworth at 581-3196 or hallsworth@maine.edu for directions and parking permits.
Additional information is available at
http://www.umaine.edu/waterresearch/esi/esi_seminars.htm
NSF Water Workshop: Water and Watershed Dynamics
Hosted by Vermont EPSCoR
November 9 - 12, 2008
Sheraton Hotel and Conference Center
Burlington, Vermont
The Vermont EPSCoR-sponsored Water and Watershed Dynamics workshop is intended to draw together researchers from NSF EPSCoR jurisdictions to share research interests and explore areas for developing collaborations.
Outcomes from this meeting will include shared knowledge, development of collaborations, awareness of the NSF opportunities for water research funding, improved competitiveness of NSF EPSCoR faculty for water research
funding across the NSF directorates, and enhanced awareness of involvement of under-represented students in water research.
The workshop will address four overarching themes:
- Theme 1: Change Dynamics
- Theme 2: Water Research Tools
- Theme 3: Implications for Management
- Theme 4: Social Impacts
For further information and registration information:
http://www.uvm.edu/EPSCoR/Water_Conference/
Environmental Seminars at UMaine
The Mitchell Center Web site provides a comprehensive listing of environmental seminars taking place across the University of Maine campus each semester. This listing includes seminars from departments throughout
the university including: School of Marine Sciences, School of Economics, Dept. of Wildlife Ecology, School of Biology & Ecology, School of Forest Resources, Dept. of Chemistry, Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Dept. of Plant, Soil and Environmental Sciences.
The seminar listing is available at:
http://www.umaine.edu/waterresearch/outreach/environment_seminars.htm
If you are hosting seminars at UMaine that you would like to include in this listing, please contact Kim Raymond at kim.raymond@umit.maine.edu or 207/581-3196.
Heads-up! Maine Water Conference 2009
The Call for Abstracts for the 2009 Maine Water Conference will be released on November 3, 2009. The Conference will be a combined meeting with the Northeast Geological Society of America (NEGSA). The NEGSA meeting is a three-day meeting scheduled for March 22-24 at the Holiday Inn in Portland. One day of the meeting - Tuesday, March 24 - will be geared towards Maine Water Conference sessions.
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