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Background on EnviroLab
Background on EnviroLab
Founded in 2015 and funded by the Henry Luce Foundation, the EnviroLAB program accepts a selective group of students from the 5C Claremont College consortium. These students come from a variety of disciplines, backgrounds, and each student brings a unique perspective to the EnviroLAB program. Each year, the class focuses on a different environmental phenomenon to be examined from a cross-disciplinary perspective. This year, the EnviroLAB focused on the ecological changes in the Gulf of Maine. Students were put into groups and organized a research project around a subtopic related to the Gulf. This webpage is the final product of our group’s work on water security. During our spring break, we visited Maine with our class on a clinic trip where we conducted over 15 interviews with individuals in Maine about water security and the changing ecosystem.
Our Interviewees
Our Interviewees
The most important piece of this project is what we learned through interviews. We wanted to have a comprehensive list of engaged community members and activists to speak to so that we could paint as complete a picture as we can since we are not from Maine and are outsiders to this community. We found that everyone was willing and excited to share what they knew with us and it made the interview process informative and intriguing. These conversations also allowed us to facilitate connections between other concerned parties in Maine and draw connections regarding water security issues across the United States and the world. At the start of the interview process many people we spoke to were unsure of how their work might relate to the term “water security” due to multiple meanings of the term “security” in their eyes. However, each individual we spoke to soon realized that the term relates to, broadly speaking, anything related to water issues or concerns and we stressed that all information relating to water in Maine would be extremely beneficial to the work we wanted to do for this project. Since our goal is to provide a comprehensive overview on water access, rights, issues, protection, productivity, and more, our hope was to hear from a wide range of people whose careers touched on different aspects of Maine’s water resources and incorporate their expert knowledge into this website.
Dan Devereaux, Brunswick Coastal Resource Manager
David Reidmiller, Climate Center Director for GMRI
Diana L Thatcher, Research Assistant at Iowa State
Don Perkins, President & CEO for GMRI
Heather Kenyon, Science and Advocacy Associate for Friends of Casco Bay
Jesse Fields, Owner of Fields Fields Blueberry
Kirsten Ness, Water Resources Specialist for PWD
Lily Calderwood, Extension Wild Blueberry Specialist at UMaine
Marvin Cling, Environmental Planner for Passamaquoddy Tribe
Marybeth Richardson, Director for South Maine DEP
Michael-Corey F. Hinton, Tribal Attorney for Passamaquoddy Tribe
Molly Payne Wynne, Freshwater Program Director for TNC
Nina Whitney, Research Assistant at WWU
Paul Hunt, Environmental Manager for PWD
Phillip Fanning, Assistant Professor at UMaine
Plansowes Dana, Indigenous Partnerships Manager for GMRI
Ron Howard, Owner of Brodis Blueberries.
Zach Whitener, Research Associate for GMRI
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