Maine Sea Grant

Shell Middens and Midden Minders Panel This session provides an opportunity for individuals to learn about the Maine Midden Minders (MMM). MMM is supported by Maine Sea Grant and the UM Mitchell Center. It seeks to engage citizen-scientists from organizations, tribal communities, and individuals in monitoring eroding shell middens on Maine’s coast. This work is […]

Coastal Messaging and Behavior Change Detailed Description: How do people know the connection between lawn care and water quality? What do coastal residents think of their local water quality and how willing are they to address impairments? And finally, what are plastic consumption patterns on college campuses and what is the level of awareness of […]

Understanding Beach Change Along the Maine and New Hampshire Coastlines This session will provide updates on shoreline change trends along Maine and New Hampshire Beaches.  It will also share specific techniques learned by profiling volunteers that will help ensure quality beach profile data Robert Furman Assessing the Stability of New Hampshire Beaches: Involving the University […]

Engaging Communities to Evaluate, Plan, and Improve Resilience to Storms and Flooding This session will highlight how to bring community members together to think about resilience and share resources that support community conversations about what their community needs to be more resilient.  It will share examples of the ways these techniques and resources are supporting […]

Shifting Shorelines: Building and measuring coastal habitat resilience to protect communities and nature This group of dynamic speakers will describe efforts to show how shorelines are managed and how shoreline health is measured to focus on resilience and nature-based design. Speakers from Maine and New Hampshire will share findings and lessons from their work to […]

Taking Action Across the Coast How is the newest science and awareness being used to help us plan and act for our climate and environment uncertainty? How are communities using local assets to adapt? What are small changes we could each make that could have an impact? Leaders from diverse fields including meteorology, local government, […]

Tom Ballestero Dr. Tom Ballestero is a hydrologist and water resources engineer in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of New Hampshire (UNH). At UNH he is also the Director of the UNH Stormwater Center and a member of the UNH Coastal Habitat Restoration Team (CHaRT) which focuses on studying, designing, implementing, […]

Field Trips, 13 June Conference Sessions, 14 June 7:30-8:30 Registration 8:30-10:00 Plenary I Opening “Sea Level Rise in Maine” – an animated short by O’Chang Comics of Rockland, Maine. Welcome Chris Feurt, Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve & University of New England John Duff Plenary Session I: Taking Action Across the Coast Session Notes Leaders […]

Note: Beaches Conference PowerPoint presentations are available on request by emailing the Webmaster. Please be specific about which presentation(s) you are interested in, including the year in which the session occurred. Sessions Getting Things Done – Notes Willard Beach Climate Change in the Northeast Bacteria Highs & Lows – Notes Shifting Sands (Slovinsky) – Notes The […]

Water quality for shellfish growing areas: Kohl Kanwit, Maine Department of Marine Resources Kohl Kanwit’s Presentation (7 MB PDF) The Department of Marine Resources Bureau of Public Health conducts three distinct types of monitoring along many of Maine’s beaches. DMR collects regular water quality samples to test for fecal coliform contamination, shellfish samples during the […]