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Bedrock to Buildings
Get PDFThis poster explores Maine\u27s bedrock in relation to the state\u27s infrastructure
Glacial Geology of Readfield Maine
Get PDFThis poster explores the glacial geology in the town of Readfield Maine. With the use of GPR (ground penetrating radar), LiDar imaging and the State\u27s surficial geology maps, evidence for a specific glacial feature called an esker was sought out and collected
Tributary : Poems
No full textPoems that seek to expose the struggles and failings of family and faith, the rigidity of conditional love and loyalty -- Provided by publisherhttps://scholarworks.umf.maine.edu/publications/1097/thumbnail.jp
Land Re/cognition: The River with Plenty of Alewives
No full textThis experimental nonfiction essay discusses re/cognition of the land which UMF stands on. It began as a singular perspective piece from the eyes of a person of settler-colonial descent looking through a camera lens at native flowers and commenting on UMF’s 2019 land acknowledgement, but it has since grown into an essay which also looks to and converses with the Wabanaki Confederacy, whose ancestral land UMF stands on. While it discusses Wabanaki hardship, it more importantly brings forward Wabanaki joy and what the beauty, the cultivation, and the acknowledgement of this land means to Wabanaki peoples. This essay discusses what land acknowledgement means, and what activism needs to take place after land acknowledgement in order to combat the systems which still exist to hinder Wabanaki joy and growth, so that we can have a reciprocal, healthy relationship with this land and the Wabanaki peoples
Impact of Outdoor Recreation on Level of Concern for Environmental Issues
No full textDuring the Covid-19 pandemic, participation in outdoor recreational activities has soared. Meanwhile, the world continues to be faced with environmental issues and the negative consequences of climate change. Researchers have documented the importance of awareness and concern of environmental issues to increase informed decision-making and adaptive capacity. In this study, participants of outdoor recreation in the state of Maine are surveyed to identify associations between their outdoor recreation level and their level of concern on specific environmental issues, sport type, and participants’ own perceived influences on their decision making of environmental issues
The Effect of Changing Substrate on Arctic Aquatic Invertebrates Abundance
Get PDFClimate change is directly affecting tundra ecosystems in northern regions, and warming temperatures have caused discontinuous permafrost and thawing sediments across the region. This project investigates how increasing erosion and the foraging patterns of migratory snow geese may degrade habitat for aquatic invertebrates in the upper Mast River, located in Wapusk National Park, Manitoba, Canada. In the past two decades, many of the important species of aquatic invertebrates have shown declines. Declining invertebrate populations are predicted to affect aquatic ecosystems and decrease the resources available to shorebirds and waterfowl, which breed and migrate through this area
Zoom Interview with Linda Britt
No full textWeekly Zoom interview #48 is with Linda Britt, a recently retired Spanish professor at the University of Maine at Farmington. After teaching a course about the Spanish Inquisition, she got the idea to write a one-woman play about Margaret Chase Smith. “Mrs. Smith Goes to Washington” grew into more than she expected and had quite a long run, with Sally Jones bringing Senator Smith to life on stages all across Maine. It’s still available for production if any theater companies are interested
A Purer Silver: Reasons for Iroquois Trade Preferences in the Mohawk Valley from 1740-1780
No full textThis presentation will invite viewers to the world of trade in North America between 1740 and 1780. In this period of both cooperation and tense competition, I will be examining how developments shaped the preferences of Iroquois traders in the Mohawk Valley of modern New York. Placed at the nexus of Iroquois, British, French, intertribal and intercolonial relations, this study will contribute to our understanding of commercial relations in 18th-century North America. I will focus on highlighting the agency of Iroquois traders navigating a rapidly changing economic landscape
Self, Family, Gender: Explorations of Identity in Horror Cinema
No full textThe engine of horror cinema is frequently its negotiation of culturally-explosive categories of identity. From Norman Bates’ violent inhabitation of his mother’s personality in Psycho (1960) to the protagonist’s struggle with dissociative identity disorder in Split (2016), horror films tend to invoke fear in their audience by exploring fractures in individual personalities and family units. This panel will provide a sustained analysis through the lens of gender, class, and psychology of the variety of ways in which directors have mobilized this process. These papers call into question horror cinema’s methods of inciting fear and reflecting our culture’s definitions of self
Outdoor Tours 8-9
No full text8. Carbon inventory of UMF’s Schwingmoor, Johnson Heights
Visit UMF’s 4.3 acre tract of land showcasing a hilltop peat bog surrounded by hemlock forest. We will share our estimates of carbon storage based on fieldwork this winter using ground penetrating radar (GPR).
Eve Fischer (Jesse Minor)
3-4pm, meet at the far end of Lot 26 (Parking Lot behind FRC)
9. Identifying the Tree People around the UMF campus
Did you ever want to be able to tell a beech from a birch, a sugar maple from a red maple, a spruce from a fir? Here’s your chance. You’ll learn some basics for identifying the common trees in this part of Maine and some cool natural history about these friends.
Drew Barton
3-4pm, meet in front of Mantor Librar