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Exonia
No full textCreated by a 4th grade student from Harriet Beecher Elementary school in Brunswick.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/mapmaking-contest-2025/1315/thumbnail.jp
Dragon Island
No full textCreated by a 4th grade student from Marshwood Great Works School in South Berwick.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/mapmaking-contest-2025/1340/thumbnail.jp
USM Teaching Symposium 2025_04
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Ski Resort Cybersecurity
No full textBy comparing ski resorts to other industries, such as beach resorts, infrastructure, and live events, this study aims to establish a foundation of understanding for ski hills. Through an analysis of data collected from state-level data breach lists and corporate filings required by the SEC, the study utilizes this broader scope to identify the primary cyber concerns facing the ski industry. The study aims to identify the unique cybersecurity challenges faced by ski resorts and compare them in terms of security concerns with those in large-scale events and the tourism industry
Symposium Introduction: Whither AI? Leadership at the Crossroads of Innovation and Responsibility
No full textThe Shape of What Remains
No full textLike all trauma, healing happens on its own timetable, often in surprising ways. Paralyzed by grief ten years after witnessing the violent death of her six-year-old daughter, Teresa Calvano turns to Chaucer, Janis Joplin, and a monthly book group to copehttps://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/facbooks/1703/thumbnail.jp
Thinking Matters Summit
No full textClimate Migration Outcomes: Work Now! Oar! Fail-Later
Oaring like madmen of the sea
Abstract
Based in four potential climate migration outcomes as described by Khanna (2021) this student research article will outline these scenarios to substrate current concerns and hurdles obstructing favorable and humane outcomes. In this pursuit some of the most vulnerable populations and potential outcome scenarios will be highlighted. Key questions surrounding the plight of climate migration as a result of climate drivers will also be examined. Current urgent issues surrounding support for southern hemisphere locations will be discussed and supported by data. Issues of refoulement policy and practices will be explored. In addition to this, pressing climate change data will be used to support the need for fast and collaborative political decision making where climate migration is concerned. The socio-economic impacts of climate change are already being actualized; available and creative solutions must be utilized to circumvent failure.
This project will entail having a descriptive poster that will be supported by dialogue that elucidates its understanding. It is hoped that in its presentation it will alert and inform even the novitiate viewer so that they may take away a better understanding of both the urgency and dynamics of the climate migration situation. This project portends to fill a basic information gap as to the why’s and wherefores of our current situation in global climate change migration. Case studies and data will be drawn from leaders in the realms of climate change as well as from information provided by the Conference of Parties (COP), United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and others.
*NOTE One challenge I currently foresee may be incorporating non-refoulement; policy, into a visually appealing and clear poster element. I hope to offer other pertinent information as needed to my poster to support its intent.
Keywords: Refoulement - Non Refoulement, Climate Change, Migration Conference of Parties (COP), United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR). Inter-Pacific Islands Migration (IPIM) Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs) United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) Climate Drivers
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Black et., al. (2011), discusses five families of drivers of climate change as they relate to climate change. They are Political, Demographic, Economic, Social and Environmental. To this, land degradation is an additional migration motivator. The timing of this schema of drivers and there interactions impact the decisions that migrants consider when deciding to migrate. Be it within or without the confines of their states. In this light various measurements are taken and observations are noted. While conflicting information sometimes occurs the identity of these drivers becomes relevant. These are designated areas of motivating factors for climate migration. They are foundational to understanding why there are climate refugees. This peer reviewed document is well supported and applies mixed sociological methods and measurements to develop its thesis. It sub-straights and aligns with my developing perspectives on climate migration (Black, et., al.).
Goundar, (2023) explores policy issues that affect, Inter-Pacific Islands Migration (IPIM). He argues that current aid policies and initiatives have not fully covered the concerns of the IPIM. Specifically that other Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs) are migrating in significant numbers to Fiji. This situation adds stress to Fijian’s and their infrastructure. Statistics of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) on intra-regional policies and local Fiji national polices are considered through a mixed methods approach that occurred between 2021 and 2023. This article supports my inquiry because it sheds light on both the need for streamlining migration and the tensions that should be considered during an equitable climate migration process. This resource utilizes statistical data and observation to develop its thesis. This work is peer reviewed. This work also informs both myself and the intent of my project by providing insight into the dynamics of climate change migration (Goundar, S.,2023).
Khanna, (2021) in fact is primarily responsible for and my choice of project. His descriptions of four potential climate change outcomes in his book “Move Where People are Going for a Better Future” opens a lot of potentialities for a climate change project. The four potentialities described are: The Regional Fortress, New middle Ages, Northern Lights and Barbarians at the Gate. These scenarios are models built by the expert evaluation of the author based on a range of outcomes that result from the consideration of mobility, authority, technology, and community as they may combine now and in the future. This model supports my perspective by identifying these potentialities so that necessary steps may be taken toward a positive outcome for everyone on the planet. Additionally, this model relies on a mixed methods data to support its construction. It is well supported: it clarifies and aligns with my long held observations (Khanna, P., 2021).
McAdam, (2013) and Negishi (2024) support primary elements of my project by exploring the caveats of refoulement. State sponsored examples of this practice are given to demonstrate their current bastardization of refoulement and creation of non-refoulement. Additionally, these observations will support my study by identifying current regional areas of concern and practice propagated by global powers to circumvent international law. These infractions result in the disenfranchisement of current and future migrant populations. These articles unmolested, provide historical context and case studies that are implicit in the construction of a viable theoretical project framework. The observations of these authors present peer reviewed data and arguments to support their claims. The exposure of these oft dubious practices align with my theoretical framework and the process of disclosure that my project strives for. The ill-practice of them does not align with successful global climate change migration outcomes (McAdam J., 2013) and (Negishi Y,. 2024)
From Tragedy to Triumph: Maine’s LGBTQ+ History (1984-2005)
Get PDFMaine’s LGBTQ+ history may be very rich, but true acceptance was an uphill battle. For decades, queer residents of Maine fought for equal rights in the state. The Stonewall riots in 1969 in New York City were an early sign that LGBTQ+ citizens were not going to continue to let their identities be suppressed, but as the years progressed, so too did the confidence of queer people to be open about their identities, including in Maine. In 1973, at the University of Maine, the Wilde-Stein Club was established, to the deep chagrin of homophobic fundamentalist preachers whose protests against the club made national news (Roy et al, 2023). Additionally, only two years later, the gay bar the Stage Door in Wells, Maine was not only denied a liquor license over it being an LGBTQ+-friendly establishment, but only a few months later, it was actually burned down by an arsonist (Borden, 1975). These instances of hate – alongside homophobia finding its way to a national legislation proposal, with the California state senator John Briggs composing Proposition 6 to bar openly gay individuals and their allies from working in public schools (Cismoski, 2018) – made it clear that queer residents of Maine had to fight hard for equal rights, but it was misfortune in the 1980s that ultimately set Maine up on a two-decade path of legislation that would ultimately culminate in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer residents gaining the same rights statewide that so many cisgender, heterosexual residents had taken for granted. This digital exhibit takes a look at several of the most notable moments throughout that time period, from the moral panics of the 1980s to the legislation that finally put an end to so much institutionalized anti-queer discrimination in Maine
USM Teaching Symposium 2025_50
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USM Teaching Symposium 2025_49
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