May 7, 2010
News from the Senator George J. Mitchell Center and Maine's Sustainability Solutions Initiative
Headlines:
RFP 2011 Maine Water Resources Research Grant Program
Deadline for pre-proposals: May 19, 2010
This request for pre-proposals from the Maine - USGS Water Research
Resources Institute (a program of the Mitchell Center) is for research
and information transfer projects in the areas of water resources and
related environmental sciences. The special focus areas for 2011 are
related to outcomes defined in the Water Resources Research Act. Proj-
ects involving these topics will be given priority, subject to peer
review. Approximately $90,000 (depending on Congressional appropriations)
will be awarded following external peer review and selection by a panel
of Maine environmental specialists and researchers.
Research proposals for projects up to 12 months in duration will be
considered to occur in a project period of March 1, 2011 through
February 28, 2012.
The full Request for Proposals is posted on the Water Institute's Web
site here.
Questions on this RFP can be addressed to John Peckenham (jpeck@maine.edu)
or Kim Raymond (kim.raymond@umit.maine.edu).
WRRI 2010 Projects Announced
The following projects have been awarded funding in the 2010 Maine
WRRI Grant Program.
Estimation of benthic dissolved organic carbon flux from wetland and
estuarine sediments using a novel technique
Aria Amirbahman, Emmanuel Boss- University of Maine
Spatiotemporal analysis of legacy mercury data on Mount Desert Island:
a proxy for coastal Maine mercury biogeochemistry
Kate Beard, Melinda Diehl - University of Maine
Green U-ME: Regenerative Ecological Design (IT)
Joline Blais, Owen Smith, William Giordino - University of Maine
Fish scales as non-lethal biosensors of contaminants in surface waters
Rebecca Van Beneden, Adria Elskus, Brian Perkins - University of Maine
Improving Access to Wellwater Information: A Pilot Information Transfer
Project
Laura Wilson, University of Maine Cooperative Extension
The Environmental Communication Symposium
May 20-21, 2010
Buchanan Alumni House, University of Maine
Deadline for registration: May 15, 2010
There is no conference fee. For more information and to register.
The Symposium is designed to bring together scholars from the field of
Environmental Communication with researchers, educators, and students
from across the state of Maine who are interested in sustainability and
environmental studies.
Through a series of roundtables, panels, and scholarly dialogs, par-
ticipants will obtain a greater understanding of this field of
Environmental Communication and will have opportunities to network with
faculty and students from the Sustainability Solutions Initiative and leading
Environmental Communication scholars.
Featuring visiting scholars:
Donal Carbaugh, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Anabela Carvalho, University of Minho (Portugal)
Steve Depoe, University of Cincinnati
Jennifer Good, Brock University (Canada)
Anders Hansen, University of Leicester (United Kingdom)
Mark Meisner, State University of New York
Nadarajah Sriskandarajah, University of Agricultural Sciences (Sweden)
Stacey Sowards, University of Texas, El Paso
Anne Marie Todd, San Jose State University
40th Annual Maine Lakes Conference
A Delicate Balance: Sustaining Maine Lakes
June 26, 2010
Colby College, Waterville, Maine
Keynote Speakers:
David Hart, Director Senator George J. Mitchell Center
Maine’s Sustainability Solutions Initiative: Partnerships for Linking
Knowledge with Action
Whitney King, Miselis Professor Chemistry, Colby College
Statewide Implications of Change and Resilience in a Central Maine
Watershed
Plenary Speaker:
John S. Banks, Director of Natural Resources for the Penobscot Nation
Sustainability for 10,000 Years: The Penobscot Vision
Conference includes afternoon concurrent sessions, vendors and networking
time. Conference fee $35. Please contact Maine COLA for more information
1-877-254-2511 (info@mainecola.org).
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