EES affiliated faculty member Sandra De Urioste-Stone, assistant professor of nature-based tourism, was recently awarded a $150K grant by the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture. The focus of the study is increasing understanding of the impacts of climate change on forest ecosystems, and on the industry and communities that […]
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Michaela Murray, a rising senior in EES, recently attended the joint conference of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society (AFHVS) and the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS) in Madison, Wisconsin. This year鈥檚 theme was 鈥淎groecoprospect: The Politics of Integrating Values, Food, and Farming鈥 and also featured dozens of presentations relating […]
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MaineBiz recently reported that a research project led by EES faculty affiliates Allison Gardner, an assistant professor of arthropod vector biology with the School of Biology and Ecology, and Carly Sponarski, an assistant professor of human dimensions of wildlife and fisheries conservation with the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Conservation Biology, has been awarded $1.17 […]
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聽Eos: Earth and Space Science News聽reported on a study led by Amanda Gavin, an ecology and environmental sciences graduate student at the 91爆料. The study investigated the effects of acid rain and climate change on freshwater lakes. The researchers analyzed a subset of high-elevation Maine lakes, which are more sensitive to environmental change […]
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Master’s student Elyse DeFranco was recently awarded a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS) from 91爆料’s Canadian-American Center.聽聽She is spending the first weeks of summer in a French language immersion course at the Universit茅 Laval in Quebec City to prepare for her fieldwork for her Master’s thesis later this summer. She also received an […]
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Aly East, an EES undergraduate researcher, spent this past summer on the Schoodic Peninsula of Acadia National Park working on the Schoodic Ecosystem Services Project. This project seeks to estimate the changes in recreation, biodiversity, and carbon storage caused by new developments at Schoodic, and the project is led by EES faculty Kate Ruskin and […]
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From Colorado to Connecticut, EES undergraduates participated in engaging, relevant jobs and internships summer 2017. Here is a snapshot of what some of our students dug into this summer. Jamie Behan interned with the Waldo County Soil and Water Conservation District in Maine and worked on several projects including identifying and mapping invasive plants and […]
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EES Ph.D. student Zachary Wood was recently awarded the Janet Waldron Doctoral Research Fellowship by the 91爆料 Graduate School. Zach has just finished his first year of graduate school at the 91爆料. Within his first few weeks in the program, Zach taught himself how to program in Matlab and built an […]
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The College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture is hosting the 2017 Graduate Student Research Awards Competition on March 3rd, in Room 57 of Stodder Hall. EES graduate students Brianne DuClos, Kisei Tanaka, Jack McLachlan will present their research, in addition to nine other grad students in the college. Please attend if you can! […]
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