Event: Weekly Forestry Seminar
When: Fri, Nov 6 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Description: Rick Vollick will speaking about:

Wildland fire on National Wildlife Refuges in Maine and the Northeast

Rick Vollick is currently the Zone Fire Planner and Fire Management Officer at Walkill National Wildlife Refuge in northern New Jersey. His presentation will focus on the use of prescribed fire in vegetation management on US Fish and Wildlife Service lands.

Location: 204 Nutting Hall

Event: Take Pride in Acadia Trails Day
When: Sat, Nov 7 8:00 am – 1:00 pm
Description: TAKE PRIDE IN ACADIA DAY
Saturday, November 7, 2009, 8:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Featuring the Acadia Quest grand prize drawing(s)!

Join one of the most important volunteer events of the year in Acadia National Park. Leaf-rakers are needed to clean out drainage ways, and prepare Acadia’s 44 miles of historic carriage roads for winter. This volunteer effort contributes valuable assistance to the park, reducing carriage road erosion from the rains, ice, and thaws during winter and spring. Bring gloves, a rake if you have one, water, your family and friends, and prepare the park for winter.

A free CCC lunch (chili, cornbread, and cider) follows the morning’s work.

Participants in the Acadia Quest program will be recongized for completing the program requirements and the grand prize drawing(s) will take place during lunch!

Registration is required. Please contact Terry Begley at 207-288-3340 or send an email to terry@friendsofacadia.org.

***If you’re an interested UMaine student contact maria.fernandez@umit.maine.edu to register***
Location: Acadia

Event: -SFR Bowling Tournament
When: Thu, Nov 12 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Location: Bangor-Brewer Bowling Lanes

Event: -A Chemical Reaction movie screening
When: Thu, Nov 12 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Description: NATIONAL ACTIVIST BRINGS MOVIE TO ALMA MATER

Mainer Launches A Chemical Reaction

A feature-length film by Maine director Brett Plymale.

Tukey, a former HGTV host and the founder of the U.S. non-profit organization known as SafeLawns.org, appears frequently on screen during A Chemical Reaction while interviewing key figures in the anti-pesticide movement in Canada and the U.S. He said his goal in making the film is to create awareness of the health hazards and environmental degradation associated with lawn care chemicals.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: Contact Brett Plymale at 207-776-8962. To view a movie trailer, visit www.ChemicalReactionMovie.com.

SCREENING DETAILS:
Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. with screening beginning promptly at 7:00 p.m. followed by a question and answer period. The screening is free, however, donations are encouraged. A portion of the donations will benefit two student organizations: the Horticulture Club and the Horticulture Team.
Location: Rm 100, Donald P. Corbett Business Building

Event: Weekly Forestry Seminar
When: Fri, Nov 13 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Description: Ivan Fernandez will provide an
Overview of Research in the Bear Brook Watershed
Location: 204 Nutting Hall

Event: -Challenges Facing Seabirds in the Gulf of Maine Seminar
When: Fri, Nov 13 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Description: UMaine School of Biology and Ecology Presents a Seminar by:
DR. REBECCA HOLBERTON

“Environmental and anthropogenic Challenges Facing Seabirds in the Gulf of Maine:
Are these K-selected species really doing OK?”

Friday, November 13th, 2009
3:10 P.M.
102 Murray Hall

Host:  Brian Olsen, 581-2542
Location: 102 Murray Hall

Event: -Irving Woodlands Presentation
When: Wed, Nov 18 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Description: Who is the largest landowner in Maine? 
Who has one of the most sophisticated system of tracking production and productivity in forest operations across this region? 
 
The answer to both of those questions is Irving Woodlands.  Representatives from Irving (Andrew Willet – Productivity Improvement, Toby Pineo – Human Resources) will be spending some time in Nutting Hall this Wednesday (November 18th).  
 
Irving always has a variety of summer and full time positions in both forest management (silviculture or planning) and operations, so they are holding a general information session open to all students.  
Location: 204 Nutting Hall

Event: -Xi Sigma Pi meeting
When: Wed, Nov 18 5:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Description: Xi Sigma Pi meeting is on Wednesday Nov. 18th at 5:30 in room 204 Nutting Hall. We will be discussing the trip planned for the following Sunday to pick up X-mas trees to sell later this semester. We will be explaining this in more detail at the meeting.
For those of you who can’t make it to the meeting: We will be leaving from Nutting Hall at 9:00 AM on Sunday Nov 22nd to pick up X-mas trees and will be back sometime in the afternoon. If you aren’t coming to the meeting, please email me to let me know if you can go on this trip. We encourage everyone who can go, to go.
-Laura Callnan, Secretary
Location: 204 Nuttin Hall

Event: -Weekly Forestry Seminar
When: Fri, Nov 20 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Description: Mike Lavigne will speak about Carbon Cycling in Balsam Fir Ecosystems Following Forestry

The impact of forestry practices depends on the extent and duration of lost photosynthetic uptake and on the quantity of additional ecosystem respiration due to the decomposition of logging residues, and how through monitoring interannual variation in variables such as leaf area index (LAI), gross primary production (GPP), and ecosystem respiration after harvesting the net impact of harvesting regimes on sink source carbon cycling can be studied. Results such as these are essential for increasing our understanding of ecosystem processes so that models can be developed to predict the impact of altered climate regimes on the carbon dynamics of forests under management.
Location: 204 Nutting Hall

Event: -SBE Seminar Series
When: Fri, Nov 20 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Description: School of Biology and Ecology

presents

DR. STELLOS TAVANTZIS
School of Biology and Ecology
University of Maine

“Global Gene Expression in Quinate-Induced Hypovirulence in Rhizoctonia solani”
Location: 102 Murray Hall

Event: Xi Sigma Pi Picking up XMas Trees
When: Sun, Nov 22 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Description: Xi Sigma Pi will be leaving from Nutting Hall at 9:00 AM on Sunday Nov 22nd to pick up X-mas trees and will be back sometime in the afternoon. If you aren’t coming to the meeting, please email me to let me know if you can go on this trip. We encourage everyone who can go, to go.
-Laura Callnan, Secretary
Location: Nutting Hall

Event: Thanksgiving break
When: Wed, Nov 25 – Sun, Nov 29

Event: Thanksgiving break
When: Wed, Nov 25 – Sun, Nov 29

Event: Thanksgiving break
When: Wed, Nov 25 – Sun, Nov 29

Event: Thanksgiving break
When: Wed, Nov 25 – Sun, Nov 29

Event: Thanksgiving break
When: Wed, Nov 25 – Sun, Nov 29

Event: -Christmas Tree Sale, Xi Sigma Pi
When: Fri, Dec 4 – Fri, Dec 18
Description: Christmas tree sale in front of Nutting Hall. Balsam Fir and Fraser Fir 4-8ft trees for -35.

Fridays 12 pm – 5 pm
Saturdays 8 am – 5 pm
Sundays 9 am – 5 pm
Mon-Thur 3 pm – 4:30 pm

Funds student scholarships and tax-deductible.
Location: Nutting Hall

Event: -Weekly Forestry Seminar
When: Fri, Dec 4 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Description: Jeremy Wilson will discuss:
Forest Stand Classification in Maine
Location: 204 Nutting Hall

Event: -Christmas Tree Sale, Xi Sigma Pi
When: Fri, Dec 4 – Fri, Dec 18
Description: Christmas tree sale in front of Nutting Hall. Balsam Fir and Fraser Fir 4-8ft trees for -35.

Fridays 12 pm – 5 pm
Saturdays 8 am – 5 pm
Sundays 9 am – 5 pm
Mon-Thur 3 pm – 4:30 pm

Funds student scholarships and tax-deductible.
Location: Nutting Hall