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Off campus Event: Seafood Industry Maine Gubernatorial Forum, Thursday Oct 4 5-7PM, in Rockland

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Reserve your tickets today
The Maine Coast Fishermen’s Association and the Maine Seafood Industry Gubernatorial Forum Host Committee invite all members of Maine’s fishing industry and working waterfront community to join us for the 2018 Seafood Industry Gubernatorial Forum.

Hosted at the Strand Theatre in Rockland, we have invited: Alan Caron, Janet Mills, Shawn Moody, and Terry Hayes to join  Maine’s seafood industry in a discussion about the future of Maine’s fisheries and coastal communities.

This is your opportunity to hear the candidates stances on industry issues and the future they hope to help build if elected Governor of the great state of Maine.

This will be a facilitated event with questions coming directly from Maine’s seafood industry.

Tickets are FREE, but we do ask that you RSVP to the event as space is limited.
Register here

Off Campus Event: Short Course on Harpswell’s Habitats and Fisheries in 2018 (Sat. Oct 6)

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Short Course on Harpswell’s Habitats and Fisheries
Saturday, Oct 6 2:00-5:30 pm
Freeport Wharf, 36 Maine St., South Freeport, MEHarpswell Heritage Land Trust (HHLT) is offering a Short Course on Harpswell’s Habitats and Fisheries in 2018. This series provides a high quality, in-depth learning opportunity for adults. We recruit knowledgeable and passionate instructors and class sizes are kept small.There is a fee for this course and advance registration is required. Click on “event link” below for details.

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Freeport Wharf36 Main Street South Freeport, ME 04078
Julia McLeod[email protected], 207-837-9613

Off Campus: Star Gazing at Crystal Spring Farm, Oct 6 or 7 (Free)

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October 6 or 7, 7:00 pm-9:30 pm

Crystal Spring Farm – South

277 Pleasant Hill Road, Brunswick

The Southern Maine Astronomers (SMA) will lead an exploration of the night sky.

We will have favorable moon phase conditions making for a dark night.

How to prepare:

  • When you arrive please be sure to keep your headlights on low beam, avoid pointing your headlights toward the market green if at all possible, and SHUT OFF your headlights as soon as you possibly can – the bright glare ruins night vision for those trying to look at the stars.
  • Bring a blanket to lay on as meteor showers are best observed laying back with eyes wide open
  • Bring bug spray!
  • Bring warmer clothes to put on: a warmer jacket and a hat.  Warmer, more waterproof footwear is a good idea too.
  • Bring a red flashlight or headlamp, or cover a regular flashlight with red cellophane or stretch a red balloon over a flashlight, to help preserve night vision.
  • “Study” this SKY MAP for learning the October night sky. Scroll down and click on “Download” for October in the Northern Hemisphere.  It’s two sided.

Community members with telescopes can come early –  by 5:30 – and bring their telescopes to set  up.  Astronomy Club members will help any who have been confounded in getting their telescopes to “work right.”  Club members will bring scopes as well.

Check this page, our Facebook, or Instagram for updates on the final date of this event.

FREE

Venue:   Crystal Spring Farm – South

Address:

277 Pleasant Hill Rd, Brunswick, Maine, 04011, United States

Off Campus Opportunities: Get Outdoors in Harpswell!

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Get Outdoors in Harpswell

There are numerous varied and interesting places to walk, picnic, play and enjoy the scenery in Harpswell. You can learn about conserved land with public access by poking around our online map of trails and preserves or browsing the list below. For more information, including directions and visitor guidelines, click on the names and images below.

You can also download four different guides to exploring the outdoors in Harpswell and surrounding towns.

If you would like to download a map showing all conserved land in Harpswell, including conservation easements on private land, click here.

Off campus Events: Aquaculture~ Sustainable Ocean Practices in Casco Bay, 9.27 5PM @ Curtis Library, Brunswick

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Aquaculture: Sustainable Ocean Practices in Casco Bay
Thursday, Sept 27, 5:00 Pm
Morrell Meeting Room, Curtis Memorial Library
23 Pleasant St., Brunswick (across from the Post Office)

This highly educational event will detail the ecological challenges facing the Gulf of Maine but also the great opportunities that has arisen with aquaculture. Open to the public.

On Campus Event: Biology Student Info Session for Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology Concentration

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Biology Student Information Session for EEMB Concentration (Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology)
Tuesday, Sept. 18 7:00-8:30 pm
Druckenmiller Atrium (2nd floor common area)

Interested in a Biology concentration in Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology?  Please join the Biology faculty and staff as they describe the course of study, outline opportunities and answer your questions. Tuesday, Sept. 18th, 7:00 pm in the Druckenmiller atrium.

On Campus Event: Impacts of a Carbon Yax across US Household Income, Thursday 9/20 4:25 Hubbard 213

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Economics Seminar: Impacts of a Carbon Tax across US Household Income Groups

Thursday, September 20,  4:25 PM — 5:30 PM
Hubbard Hall, The Pickering Room [213]

The Economics Department Fall seminar series kicks off with Economist Marc Hafstead, Fellow at Resources for the Future (RFF). Hafstead is a leading researcher on the evaluation of climate and energy policies and with a colleague at RFF he runs the Goulder-Hafstead Energy-Environment-Economy (E3) Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model. This sophisticated multi-sector model of the United States has been used to model cap-and-trade programs, carbon taxes, clean energy standards, and gasoline taxes.

Dr. Hafstead comes to Bowdoin to give a paper titled “Impacts of a Carbon Tax across US Household Income Groups: What are the Equity-Efficiency Trade-Offs”.

 

On Campus Event: “Natural History- Reciprocal Healing and the Path of Delight”, Mon. 9/24 4:15, Druck 20

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“Natural History: Reciprocal Healing and the Path of Delight” (Biology Seminar)
Monday, 9/24 4:15
Druck 20

Tom Fleischner will address the essential importance of natural history—“a practice of intentional, focused attentiveness and receptivity to the more-than-human world, guided by honesty and accuracy”— as the foundation of biological sciences, the grounding for conservation, and the basis for healthy human individuals and societies. His presentation will draw upon his many years of work as a field naturalist and conservation biologist, as a leading advocate for the centrality of natural history, and as the editor of the new anthology, Nature, Love, Medicine: Essays On Wildness and Wellness.  

Fleischner is the executive director of the Natural History Institute in Prescott, Arizona; Faculty Emeritus in environmental studies at Prescott College; and chair of the Natural History Section of the Ecological Society of America.

Off campus Event: New England Food System Innovation Challenge, 11/9-11/11 in Standish, ME (registration closes 10/8)

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4th Annual New England Food System Innovation Challenge
Friday, November 9- Sunday, November 11, 2018
Saint Joseph’s College in Standish, Maine

Registration for the program closes on October 8th.

College Challenge:How might we create products, services, app’s or organizations that support the expansion of production, distribution, processing and consumption of local, sustainably produced food and seafood.  We are seeking idea or very early stage ventures. Consider products or services that address one or more of the following:

* Helping food producers become resilient in light of climate change.
* Applying big data to small-scale production.
* Utilizing the Internet of Things (IoT) to bring efficiency to small producers and harvesters.
* Providing equal access and ability to purchase healthy food to all.
* Reducing or repurposing food waste.
* Making the food supply chain transparent to all.
* Reducing or conserving inputs – like water – in the production of healthy, sustainably produced food.
* Using drones to improve the efficiency of small-diversified farms.* Integrating aquaponics, hydroponics or land based aquaculture into the food system.

The food system is vast and complex system and this is by no means a complete list. We are looking for innovative and sustainable idea stage enterprise that could become startup ventures.

Please view this Three-minute video  https://vimeo.com/252044306  and the attached PDF for further information.

Registration is now open at:  www.NEInnovationChallenge.org
Bill Seretta, Convener and Co-Chair
207.831.1438
[email protected]

Tom Settlemire Co-Chair
207.8416747
[email protected]

2018 Planning Committee:

Barry Woods – Director of Electric Vehicle Innovation at ReVision Energy
Eliza Huber-Weiss – Garden Education Coordinator at St. Mary’s Nutrition Center
Elizabeth Boepple – BCM Environmental & Land Law, PLLC
Jennifer Monti, MD – Maine Medical Partners
Nick Guidi – Student, Saint Joseph’s College
Jesse Juntura – DSPolitical