Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental and Watershed Research Annual Technical Report, FY 2008

摘要

The Maine Water Resources Research Institute strives to be the locus for water science in the state through its support of research, graduate studies, and outreach. These fundamentally essential functions would not exist if Congress did not fund this federally authorized program. During the FY08 period, the Maine Institute supported four research projects: (1) Measuring and Incorporating Stakeholder Values into River Restoration Decisions: A Socio-Economic Analysis ; (2) Using reactive thin-film membranes and molecular tools to determine mercury mobility and transformation in the Penobscot River estuary sediment, Maine; (3) Response of a linked lake-stream system to dam removal and restoration of migratory fish; and (4) Development of a non-lethal biomarker of contaminant exposure for threatened and endangered fish species. In addition to the Maine Institute's direct Information Transfer activities, two separate projects were supported: (1) Reducing stream pollution using business friends incentives (social marketing); and (2) Effective Knowledge Transfer to Enhance Stakeholder Involvement in Watershed Stewardship. These projects alone provided support to three graduate students and five undergraduate students.