January 24, 2011
News from the Senator George J. Mitchell Center and Maine's Sustainability Solutions Initiative
Headlines:
2011 Maine Water Conference
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
7:30am-4:00pm
Augusta Civic Center, Augusta, ME
Conference information available here.
Call for Poster Abstracts
The submission deadline for poster abstracts is:
Friday, February 18, 2011.
The juried poster competition will include three judging
categories: graduate, undergraduate and high-school.
Non-student poster presentations based on appropriate
research findings are also accepted for display.
Guidelines and submission information for poster abstracts
is available at here.
Registration & Exhibit Information
REGISTRATION for the Maine Water Conference is only $42
and includes all conference sessions, breaks, and lunch.
Registration for students giving oral or poster
presentations is $25. Late registration (after 3/4/11
or day of conference) is $55.
Registration information is available here.
EXHIBITOR fees are listed below and include lunch and
registration for one attendee:
Full table (8' display area) - $180
1/2 table (4' display area) - $90
Registration information is available here.
For additional information contact Kim Raymond at
kim.raymond@umit.maine.edu or 207/581-3244.
*** Sustainability Solutions Session
This year's Maine Water Conference will include a special
session that introduces Maine's Sustainability Solutions
Initiative, a state-wide collaboration that strives to
address the emerging challenge of how to meet human needs
while sustaining the plant's life support system. SSI
aims to address this challenge in new ways that benefit
Maine and other regions. Launched with a 5-year, $20
million grant from the National Science Foundation in
2009, SSI conducts and supports innovative research that
engages diverse collaborators in developing new solutions
to our most pressing challenges in sustainability. This
session will feature representative talks from SSI's
portfolio of research projects.
Project WET Training Announced
Educate. Empower. Act. The mission of Project WET is to
reach children, parents, educators and communities of
the world with water education. We invite you to join us
in educating children about the most precious resource
on the planet: WATER.
Project WET Educator's Workshop
Thursday, March 17, 2011, 9am-3:30pm
Searsport Elementary School
Workshop Facilitator: Laura Wilson, UMaine Cooperative Extension
To register: Contact Laura Wilson or 207/581-2971
For more information on this workshop and Project WET
NSF Communicating Science Workshop
National Science Foundation
Communicating Science Workshop
April 14-15, 2011
Wells Conference Center, UMaine, Orono
Registration will begin February 1, 2011 through the Maine
EPSCoR website. There is no
registration fee for this event.
The NSF Office of Legislative and Public Affairs (OLPA)
has developed an interactive workshop that targets the
effective communication of advances in research and
education in science and engineering taking place throughout
the EPSCoR community.
Although traditional scientific training typically does
not prepare scientists and engineers to be effective public
communicators, researchers are increasingly called upon to
share their results with the public. This workshop will
strengthen participantsÕ ability to communicate more
effectively with non-technical audiences. It will help
participants to develop messages, define their audience,
and identify opportunities to engage the media and the
public. Sessions will also include training in on-camera
interviewing, camera usage, making public presentations,
and the use of new media.
Spring Sustainability/Environmental Seminars
A comprehensive listing of sustainability/environmental
seminars taking place at UMaine for spring semester is
located here.
Please contact the sponsoring department if you have
questions or need additional information about these
seminars. Contact Kim Raymond if you are hosting seminars
that you would like included
on the list.
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