In this issue:
Best of Both Worlds
Master’s student and marine resource scientist Hannah Horecka divides her time between UMaine and the state’s Department of Marine Resources
Hannah Horecka graduated from UMaine in 2012 with a Bachelor’s degree in Marine Science. A student in the Honor’s College, Horecka’s honor’s thesis was on biotoxin trends (such as red tide) in Cobbscook Bay—research that helped land her a contract  position at the Maine Department of Marine Resources (DMR) shortly after graduating and a job as a staff scientist in 2015.
In January 2018, Horecka circled back to UMaine as a Master’s student in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences and began taking graduate courses—her first being a hydrology class taught by associate professor Sean Smith of the School of Earth & Climate Sciences and the Mitchell Center. She is working with Smith, now her advisor, on a larger project regarding land-sea interactions in coastal pollution.
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Students Meet with Senator Mitchell
A handful of students had the opportunity to meet with George Mitchell following his 2018 Mitchell Lecture address
Following the 2018 Mitchell Lecture on Sustainability, Senator Mitchell spent an hour talking with students at the Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions. A wide range of questions were asked and topics discussed, including the Senator’s pivotal role in brokering the Good Friday Agreement of the Northern Ireland peace process. But kicking off the discussion was a roundtable introduction by students and questions from the Senator about their backgrounds and their academic and career goals. 
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Learning the Science of Cooperation
Mitchell Center workshop introduces the basic perceptions and central results of cooperation science
On September 20, the Mitchell Center held a workshop on Cooperation Science facilitated by
Tim Waring and Linda Silka, both of the UMaine School of Economics & the Mitchell Center. Twenty faculty and graduate students from a broad array of interdisciplinary fields like Biology and Ecology, Cooperative Extension, and Marine Science attended the three-hour workshop.
Waring introduced the basic principles and central results of cooperation science and drew on examples from Maine and around the world to demonstrate how cooperation often determines sustainability outcomes.
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Science and Communication in University-Community Collaborations
Workshop helps researchers connect with decision-making at the local, state and federal level through team-based research
In mid-October, Bridie McGreavy of UMaine’s Department of Communication and Journalism and the Mitchell Center and Karen Bieluch of Dartmouth College and the Mitchell Center conducted a three-hour workshop designed to help researchers better connect their research with decision-making at the local, state and federal level through team-based research.
The workshop combined insights from science communication, interdisciplinary team collaboration, science and technology studies, and stakeholder-engaged research to show how researchers can connect science and decision-making more effectively.
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Call for Abstracts—2019 Maine Sustainability & Water Conference
The Call for Abstracts for the 2019 Maine Sustainability & Water Conference has been issued. The conference is scheduled for Thursday, March 28, 2019 at the Augusta Civic Center. Please visit the conference web site for complete details. Abstracts for oral and poster presentations may be submitted.
A list of proposed concurrent sessions is also available. Several sessions are still under development and additional information will be posted shortly.
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