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  • Mark Anderson
    Coordinator, Ecology and Environmental Science, Senior Instructor, School of Economics, UMaine
    Research Interests: Recreation and land management; environmental values and world views
  • Kate Beard-Tisdale
    Professor, Department of Spatial Information Science Engineering, UMaine
    Research Interests: Modeling; analysis and visualization of spatio-temporal phenomena
  • Ron Beard, Extension Professor, University of Maine Cooperative Extension
  • Kathleen Bell
    Associate Professor, School of Economics, UMaine
    Research Interests: Environmental and natural resource economics; spatial economic modeling
  • Aram Calhoun
    Associate Professor of Wetlands Ecology, Dept. of Wildlife Ecology, UMaine
    Research Interests: Vernal pool ecology and conservation; wetland ecology
  • Charlie Colgan
    Chair, Community Planning & Development Program, Professor Public Policy, Muskie School of Public Service, University of Southern Maine
    Research Interests: Regional growth and development; economic forecasting; transportation policy; policy analysis and planning
  • Chris Cronan
    Professor, School of Biology & Ecology, UMaine
    Research Interests: Biogeochemistry; plant ecology; ecosystem ecology; land use planning
  • Catherine Elliott
    Associate Extension Professor, University of Maine Cooperative Extension
  • Ivan Fernandez
    Professor, Dept. of Plant, Soil & Environmental Sciences, UMaine
    Research Interests: Forest soils; biogeochemistry
  • Eric Gallandt
    Associate Professor, Dept. of Plant, Soil & Environmental Sciences, UMaine
    Research Interests: Weed ecology and management
  • Susan Gardner
    Assistant Professor, Dept. of Education & Human Development, UMaine
    Research Interests: Interdisciplinary research collaborations and socialization to disciplinary norms
  • David Hart
    Director, Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental & Watershed Research, Professor of Biology, UMaine
    Research Interests: Watershed science and management
  • David Hiebeler
    Associate Professor, Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics, UMaine
    Research Interests: Mathematical ecology; complex systems
  • Stephen Hornsby
    Professor, Geography & Canadian Studies, Director, Canadian-American Center
  • Mac Hunter
    Professor of Wildlife Ecology, Libra Professor of Conservation Biology, Dept. of Wildlife Ecology, UMaine
    Research Interests: Managing ecosystems to maintain biodiversity
  • Shaleen Jain
    Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, UMaine
    Research Interests: Hydroclimatology, environmental flows, climate variability and change, hydrosystems modeling, adaptive management and decision analysis.
  • Teresa Johnson
    Assistant Professor of Marine Policy, School of Marine Sciences, UMaine
    Research Interests: Marine policy, fisheries management, public participation, fishing communities.
  • Richard Judd
    Col. James C. McBride Distinguished Professor of History, Dept. of History, UMaine
    Research Interests: Maine, U.S. 19th-century, labor and environmental history
  • Jack Kartez
    Professor, Community Planning and Development, Muskie School of Public Service, University of Southern Maine, and Associate Director, USEPA Region I Environmental Finance Center.
    Research Interests: Mitigating natural and technological hazards; conservation and regional development; land use modeling and visualization; science-society relations; public policy dispute resolution.
  • Bill Kuykendall
    Senior Lecturer, New Media Program, UMaine
  • Jessica Leahy
    Assistant Professor of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources, School of Forest Resources
    Research Interests: Social capital and trust; family forestland owners; public attitudes toward forest resources
  • Robert Lilieholm
    E.L. Giddings Associate Professor of Forest Policy, School of Forest Resources, UMaine
    Research Interests: Natural resources policy and economics; alternative futures modeling; rural economic development
  • Laura Lindenfeld
    Assistant Professor, Dept. of Communication & Journalism and the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, UMaine
    Research Interests: Community engagement; environmental communication; public participation, media studies, food studies
  • Cynthia Loftin
    Associate Professor, Dept. of Wildlife Ecology, Assistant Leader-Wildlife, Maine Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
    Research Interests: Wetlands, landscape, and systems ecology, GIS applications
  • Jean MacRae
    Associate Professor, Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering
    Research Interests: Metal and nutrient cycling in the environment, microbial processes for waste treatment and resource recovery, and biodegradation and bioavailability
  • Shannon McCoy
    Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, UMaine.
    Research Interests:Ssocial psychological study of the self; social identity; and social stigma
  • David Owen
    Associate Professor, University of Maine School of Law
    Research Interests: Environmental law; ecosystem restoration; climate change
  • Firooza Pavri
    Associate Professor, Dept. of Geography & Anthropology, University of Southern Maine
    Research Interests: Environmental change, landscape analysis, remote sensing, Geographic Information Systems
  • Howard Patterson
    Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, UMaine
    Research Interests: Fluorescence spectroscopy
  • Terry Porter
    Assistant Professor of Management, Maine Business School, UMaine
    Research Interests: Strategic processes; business and sustainability; complexity theory and sustainability; organizational and personal identity processes in management
  • Darren Ranco
    Associate Professor, Anthropology and Director, Native American Research, UMaine
    Research Interests: Comparative environmental risk; environmental
    justice; Traditional Ecological Knowledge; research ethics
  • Andrew Reeve
    Associate Professor, Dept. of Earth Sciences, UMaine
    Research Interests: influence of ground-water flow and solute transport in peatland systems; simulating peat accumulation in peatland systems; applying borehole geophysics to characterize bedrock aquifer properties
  • Steven Sader
    Professor, School of Forest Resources

    Research Interests: Remote sensing of forest environments
  • Jasmine Saros
    Associate Professor, School of Biology & Ecology and Climate Change Institute, UMaine
    Research Interests: Paleolimnology; phytoplankton ecology
  • Michael Scott
    New Media Program
  • Linda Silka
    Director, Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, UMaine; Professor, School of Economics
    Research Interests: Community-university research partnerships on environmental, economic development, and environmental health issues
  • Kevin Simon
    Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, School of Biology & Ecology, UMaine
    Research Interests: Ecology of streams & groundwater ecosystems
  • Nathan Stormer
    Associate Professor, Dept. of Communication & Journalism, UMaine
    Research Interests: Rhetoric of science; rhetorical theory; cultural theory; feminist studies
  • Mario Teisl
    Professor, School of Economics, UMaine
    Research Interests: Environmental valuation; communication and policy
  • Peter Vaux
    Research Associate Professor, Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental & Watershed Research, UMaine
    Research Interests: Aquatic ecology; landscape influences on aquatic systems; web-based data access and information syntheses
  • Aaron Weiskittel
    Assistant Professor, School of Forest Resources, UMaine
    Research Interests: Forest biometrics and modeling
  • Jeremy Wilson
    Associate Professor, School of Forest Resources
    Research Interests: Silviculture/ecosystem management
  • Jim Wilson
    Professor, School of Marine Resources, UMaine
    Research Interests: Fisheries sciences; marine policy
  • Mike Worboys
    Professor and Chair, Dept. of Spatial Information Science and Engineering, UMaine
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  • Gayle Zydlewski
    Research Assistant Professor, School of Marine Sciences, UMaine
    Research Interests: Environmental oceanography, fisheries sciences, biological oceanography, sustainable development of ocean energy

STAFF

  • John Peckenham
    Assistant Director, Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental & Watershed Research; Director, Maine Water Resources Research Institute
  • Ruth Hallsworth
    Strategic Program Manager, Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental & Watershed Research
  • Kim Raymond
    Communications & Outreach Coordinator, Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental & Watershed Research
 

David Hart

I believe that our greatest asset is the extraordinary collaborative spirit that has developed among these talented, passionate, and dedicated researchers.

David Hart
Project Leader

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