Department of Environmental Science and Policy

USM's Department of Environmental Science and Policy is running an online course covering aquaponics and recirculating aquaculture systems, available for Spring 2019. The class is inspired by the two land-based aquaculture facilities planned for midcoast Maine.

USM's Travis Wagner, a professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy, has been quoted in an article about mining landfills for potentially valuable materials.

On Thursday, October 18, 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., join the University of Southern Maine Art Galleries for a Malaga Island Panel Discussion moderated by USM Artist-in-Residence Daniel Minter as part of his exhibition OTHERED: Displaced from Malaga.

Two USM alumnae and one professor are leading the efforts in eradicating the invasive European green crab, which has decimated soft-shell clam populations in Maine and New England. How? The answer is quite tasty.

USM Professors Rob Sanford and Nathan Hamilton’s archaeological work on Malaga Island was featured in the Portland Press Herald.

Robert Sanford, the chair of USM’s Environmental Science and Policy program, joined a recent Maine Public radio call-in show about chickens.

USM Environmental Science and Policy professors Karen Wilson and Theo Willis are speaking at an event where they are sharing their research on the millions of alewives that migrate from ocean to rivers and streams each spring and summer.

Professor of Environmental Policy Travis Wagner discusses Starbucks' decision to discontinue plastic straws.

Environmental Science & Policy Professors Robert Sanford and Travis Wagner have published the 3rd edition of "Environmental Science - Active Learning Laboratories and Applied Problem Sets"

Karen Wilson, a USM professor of environmental science and policy, joined with several of her students and children from Portland's Longfellow Elementary School to examine how people change the quality of nearby water, often without even knowing it. Together, they recently visited Capisic Pond. They looked at the watershed, the level of pollution and what's growing there. The visit was covered by writer Kate Irish Collins of The Forecaster.