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Speaker Series Videos List: 2010 – Present
Below are links to You Tube videos for all of the speaker series talks we have recorded and are available on YouTube.
See a complete list of speaker presentations back to 1996.
2025 – 2026
Voter ID: Solving No Problems
Matt Dunlap, Maine State Auditor & Shenna Bellows, Maine Secretary of State
October 8, 2025
A Steady State Economy for Environmental Protection
Brian Czech, Executive Director, Center for Advancement of the Steady State Economy (CASSE)
November 12, 2025
Return to the Sky
Tina Morris, Ornithologist, Wildlife Biologist & Author
December 10, 2025
PFAS Distribution in Lower Casco & Merrymeeting Bay Watersheds
Chris Aeppli, Environmental Chemist & Senior Research Scientist,
Bigelow Ocean Lab for Ocean Sciences
January 14, 2026
Quiet Communities
Jamie Banks, Founder & President, Quiet Communities
February 11, 2026
2024 – 2025
Blinded by the Light: Perils & Pitfalls of LEDs
Mark Baker, Founder and President of the Soft Lights Foundation
October 9, 2024James Madison Kendall’s Wonderful Water Wheel
Bud Warren, Raconteur & Co-founder, Tide Mill Institute
November 13, 2024Our Town! Adventures in Richmond History
Piti Theater & Marcia Buker Elementary 4th Graders, 2023-2024
December 11, 2024Getting to Know Rachel Carson
Barbary Vickery, Director of Conservation, Retired, TNC Maine
January 8, 2025Adapting to Green Crabs in Coastal Maine
Marissa McMahan, Senior Director of Fisheries, Manomet
February 12,20245Rosalie Edge, 1877-1962: Hellcat of Conservation
Dyana Furmansky, Author
March 12, 2025BNAS & its Superfund Legacy
David Page & Suzanne Johnson, BACSE
April 9, 2025Gulf of Maine Coastal Program – Past & Future!
Chris Meaney, Director, USFWS GOMCP
May 14, 20252023 – 2024
Public or Private Power? Question 3
Seth Berry, Co-founder: Our Power
October 11, 2023Endangered Species – Now More Than Ever
Tara Thornton, Deputy Director, Endangered Species Coalition
Noveber 8, 2023Geologic History of Merrymeeting Bay
Joe Kelley, Marine Biologist
December 13, 2023Archaeology from Swamps & Caves!
Becca Peixotto
January 10, 2024Dam Removals on the Kennebec River
John Burrows, Exec. Dir., U.S. Operations, Atlantic Salmon Fedration
February 14, 2024Biocontrol Research in Merrymeeting Bay
Hillary Peterson, Integrated Pest Management Specialist, MDACF
March 13, 2024Bald Eagles: Recovery, Research & Conservation
Chris DeSorbo, Director, Raptor Program, Biodiversity Research Institute
April 10, 2024Fort Western on the Kennebec, 1628-1919
Linda Novak, Director, Old Fort Western
May 8, 20242022 – 2023
Forever Chemicals are Forever!
Pat Elder, Director, Military Poisons
October 12, 2022Shimmering Shad & Splashing Sturgeon
John Lichter, Prof. Emeritus Biology & Environmental Studies, Bowdoin College,
and Renske Kerkhofs, International Student, Bowdoin College
November 9, 2022Episode 1: Arrivals
Mauricio Handler, Natural History & Underwater CinematographerWhere the Wild Things Were
Will Stolzenburg, Author, & Ed Friedman, FOMB Chair
January 11, 2023Running Silver
John Waldman, Aquatic Conservation Biologist Professor
Queens College, CUNY
February 9, 2022My Life for the Birds & Bats
Al Manville, Senior Wildlife Biologist, USFWS,
Retired Adjutant Professor, Johns Hopkins University
March 8, 2023Agro-Acoustics: Listening to the Sounds of Soil
Louise Roberts, Lecturer and Assistant Professor of Marine Biology,
University of Liverpool, UK
April 12, 2023Order in the Pownalborough Court House, 1761-2023
Jay Robbins, Place-Based Historian
May 10, 2023Our Town: Bowdoin Life in the 1800’s
Featuring the 3rd and 4th grade classes of Bowdoin Central School and Piti Theatre
May 11, 2023
2021 – 2022
Mega-Dams, Mega-Problems!
Roger Wheeler, President, Friends of Sebago Lake
October 13, 2021Neptune’s Navy! Sea Shepherd on the Front Lines
Tamara Arenovich, Activist and Communications Director
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
November 10, 2021King Philip’s War: Impacts on Merrymeeting Bay
Bruce Bourque, Archaeologist, Director, Merrymeeting Bay Pioneer Project
December 8, 2021Don’t Be a Nuisance! (FOMB v CMP)
William Most, Attorney at Law
January 12, 2022Restoring the Lower Androscoggin River
Steve Heinz, Trout Unlimited, Maine Chapter
February 9, 2022Are Dogs Really Our Best Friends & Love Muffins?
Marc Bekoff, Ecologist, Evolutionary Biologist & Ethologist
March 9, 2022American Shad
Nate Gray, Fisheries Biologist, Maine Department of Marine Resources
April 13, 2022To Bee or Not To Bee
Jon Mirin & Laura Josephs
Wednesday, May 11, 2022, 7:00 pm2021
Seabrook Nuclear Plant: Winds of Change?
Doug Bogen
January 13, 2021Searching for Smelt: Citizen Scientists & Maine’s Sea Run Fishes
Claire Enterline & Danielle Frechette
February 10, 2021The Sonic Sea – Voices of the Deep
Chris Clark, Sr. Scientist & Researcher,
Dept. of Neurobiology & Behavior, Cornell University
March 10, 2021Native Fish Coalition: Protecting, Preserving & Restoring Native Fish
Emily Bastian, National Vice-Chair & Bob Mallard, Exec. Director, NFC
April 14, 2021River History & the New Environmental Movement
Scot McFarlane, River Historian
May 12, 2021
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