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SUMMARY:Quiet Communities
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1767112524075{border-color: #FFFFFF !important;}”][vc_column width=”2/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1767213639338{margin: 25px !important;padding: 25px !important;border: 25px initial #D21E1E !important;border-radius: 15px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1768595868205{margin-top: 25px !important;margin-right: 25px !important;margin-bottom: 25px !important;margin-left: 25px !important;border-top-width: 25px !important;border-right-width: 25px !important;border-bottom-width: 25px !important;border-left-width: 25px !important;padding-top: 25px !important;padding-right: 25px !important;padding-bottom: 25px !important;padding-left: 25px !important;background-color: #FFFFFF !important;border-left-style: initial !important;border-right-style: initial !important;border-top-style: initial !important;border-bottom-style: initial !important;border-radius: 25px !important;border-color: #F2EEEE !important;}”] \n\n\nWinter Speaker Series\n2025-2026 Zoom Speaker Series\n\n\nQuiet Communities\nJamie Banks\, Founder & President\, Quiet Communities\n\nWednesday\, February 11\, 2026 at 7:00 pm\nRegister for Zoom Presentation\n\nJamie Banks \n\nJamie Banks\, Quiet Communities’ (QC) Founder and President\, is a health care and environmental scientist with an extensive background in health outcomes and economics\, environmental behavior\, and policy\, who brings a multifaceted perspective to her work. In the decade since she founded QC\, she has assembled a team of 40+ operational and advisory team members and has been responsible for overall strategic and operational planning\, program and team development\, research\, educational initiatives\, conferences\, advisory services\, customer acquisition\, alliances\, and business planning. She is the author of several peer review publications\, a presenter at national and international scientific meetings\, and an invited presenter at local\, state\, and federal government hearings. \nDuring her career in health care\, she held senior consulting positions at Abt Associates\, Charles River Associates International\, and ML Strategies\, the consulting arm of Mintz Levin – working on new medical technologies\, market opportunities\, and economic value. In 2007\, she turned her attention to environmental health and climate change\, first founding Planet Rewards\, a company pioneering a corporate platform to promote eco-friendly behaviors\, and then founding Quiet Communities in 2013 to help find solutions to problems of harmful noise and pollution affecting communities. In addition to her role at QC\, she chairs the Noise & Health Committee at the American Health Association (APHA) and is leading efforts to develop policy statements around noise and related pollution. The first APHA policy statement\, Noise as a Public Health Hazard\, was published in 2021. Jamie holds a PhD in Social Policy/Health Economics from the University of Kent\, UK\, and earned masters’ degrees from Dartmouth Medical School and MIT. \nHarm from noise\, as affirmed by the American Public Health Association\, is a public health crisis. Noise is known to cause severe cardiovascular impacts\, to delay childhood development\, to impact mental health\, and lead to metabolic diseases. When noise is excessive and causes harm\, it needs to be addressed. Quiet and natural soundscapes have become precious commodities. Leaf blowers\, helicopters\, tractors\, chain saws\, motorcycles\, wood chippers\, workplace machinery\, traffic and airplanes are just a few sources of noise that are imperiling public health. OSHA notes that exposure to high levels of noise can cause permanent hearing loss. Neither surgery nor a hearing aid can correct this type of hearing loss. Short term exposure to loud noise can cause a temporary change in hearing (your ears may feel plugged) or a ringing in your ears (tinnitus). These short-term problems may go away within a few minutes or hours after leaving the noise. However\, repeated exposure can lead to permanent tinnitus and/or hearing loss. \nLoud noise can create physical and psychological stress\, reduce economic and other productivity\, interfere with communication and concentration\, trigger PTSD and contribute to accidents and injuries by making it difficult to hear warning signals\, but the problems with noise are not limited to the workplace. The effects of noise can be profound\, affecting neighbors\, communities and wildlife in the environment and causing psychological as well as physiological stresses. The little-known Noise Control Act was passed in 1972 but remains toothless years later despite 1990 amendments to the Clean Air Act where noise pollution is addressed in Part IV\, §7641. \nThe health of more than 100 million Americans is at risk\, with children among the most vulnerable. Noise-related costs range in the hundreds of billions of dollars per year. 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SUMMARY:SLIME ME
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””] \nWinter Speaker Series 2025-2026\nSpeaker Series Archive\n [/vc_column_text][vc_widget_sidebar][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row”][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””] \n\n\nSLIME ME\n\n\nKaren Coluzzi\, Entomologist & State Survey Coordinator\,\nMaine Dept. of Agriculture\, Conservation & Forestry\n\nWednesday\, March 11\, 2026 at 7:00 pm\n\nKaren Coluzzi\n\nFriends of Merrymeeting Bay’s (FOMB) sixth presentation of their 29th annual Winter Speaker Series: SLIME ME features Karen Coluzzi\, Entomologist with the Maine Department of Agriculture\, Conservation and Forestry. \nExotic terrestrial snails and slugs are on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s watchlist. These are species that can cause serious threats to our nation’s plant resources\, food supply\, livestock and human health if they are introduced and become established. Conducting trapping and visual surveys for these species are time consuming\, inefficient\, and ineffective for a small staff\, but with the public’s help\, more ground can be covered. Promoting the use of iNaturalist\, Karen Coluzzi and her colleagues have been able to monitor the iNaturalistproject page\, SLIME ME for any suspicious invasive snails and slugs. In addition\, iNaturalist observations can be compared with the list compiled in Martin’s\, Terrestrial Snails and Slugs (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Maine published in 2000 (Northeastern Naturalist 7(1): 33-88) to help determine if some species have gone extinct\, have been misidentified\, or are new to the state. In this program\, Karen will present information on terrestrial snails and slugs known in Maine\, exotic snails and slugs on the USDA’s watchlist\, and how to observe\, photograph\, and upload finds to iNaturalist to help with the hunt. \nKaren Coluzzi is an entomologist with the Maine Department of Agriculture\, Conservation and Forestry in the Plant Health Division.  She is the State Survey Coordinator for exotic pests and administers the Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey (CAPS) Program. The CAPS Program\, which is funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture\, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA-APHIS)\, provides a mechanism for early detection of foreign plant pests and diseases that could be harmful to our agricultural and natural resources. Karen coordinates exotic pest detection surveys throughout the state and works with industry and stakeholders to raise awareness of harmful exotic pests. She received her Master of Science degree in entomology from the University of Maine in 2005. \nFOMB hosts their Winter Speaker Series October-May\, on the second Wednesday of each month. Due to the Covid 19 pandemic and ability for participants to attend from out of the area\, the series continues via Zoom. The FOMB April 8th 2026 presentation\, Horses\, Sugar & Slavery in the 18th Century features Charlotte Carrington-Farmer\, Ph.D. professor of history at Roger Williams University. \nSpeaker Series presentations are free\, open to the public. \nFor more information contact FOMB at 207-666-3372 or edfomb@comcast.net. \n[/vc_column_text][vc_video link=”https://youtu.be/9v_EBBOL8E0″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_widget_sidebar sidebar_id=”sidebar_1″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link=”https://youtu.be/9v_EBBOL8E0″ css=””][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:New Speaker Event test
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””] \n2025-2026 Speaker Series\nReturn to the Sky\nTina Morris\, Ornithologist\, Wildlife Biologist & Author\n\nWednesday\, December 10\, 2025 at 7:00 pm\nTina Morris\nTina Morris\, raised in a large family and surrounded by myriad orphaned creatures both domestic and wild\, was imbued with a lifelong love of animals. After a few wrong turns and a stormy relationship with science in college\, she found a way to make her life’s ambition—rescuing endangered birds of prey—into a reality. Tina earned her undergraduate degree from Oberlin College and her graduate degree in ornithology and wildlife biology from Cornell University\, where she helped develop the first techniques for releasing introduced Bald Eagles. Her field research ultimately became the instruction manual for eagle restoration programs in other eastern states. Tina was formally inducted as an honorary Iroquois into the Confederacy of Six Nations for her work returning the Bald Eagle to the nation’s skies. \nIn Return to the Sky\, Tina Morris\, one of the first women to engage in a raptor reintroduction program\, shares her remarkable story that is as much about the human spirit as it is about birds of prey. \nIn the spring of 1975\, on the eve of the US Bicentennial\, Tina was selected to reintroduce Bald Eagles into New York State in the hope that the species could eventually repopulate eastern North America. Young and female in a male-dominated field\, Tina was handed an assignment to rehabilitate a population that had been devastated by the effects of DDT. The challenges were prodigious—there was no model to emulate for a bird of the eagle’s size\, for one—but Tina soon found that her own path to self-discovery and confidence-building was deeply connected with the survival of the species she was chosen to protect. \nUltimately\, Tina spent two years playing “mother” to seven eaglets at Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge\, east of Seneca Falls in New York. Driven by her passion\, she discovered unknown reserves of patience\, determination\, and grit. \nAt a time when the mass extinction of bird species is a critical global topic\, Return to the Sky reminds us how\, with a mix of common sense\, resilience\, and resolve\, humans can be effective stewards of the natural world. \nTake a peek at the Book.[/vc_column_text][vc_raw_html css=””]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[/vc_raw_html][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_widget_sidebar sidebar_id=”sidebar_1″][/vc_column][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:New England Horses\, Sugar & Slavery in the 18th Century
DESCRIPTION:2025-2026 Zoom Speaker Series\n\n\n\n\nNew England Horses\,\nSugar & Slavery in the 18th Century\nCharlotte Carrington-Farmer\, Professor of History\, Roger Williams Univ.\n\nWednesday\, April 8\, 2026 at 7:00 pm\nRegister for Zoom Presentation\n\n\nCharlotte Carrington-Farmer\n\nDr. Charlotte Carrington-Farmer is a Professor of History\, and she specialises in early American History. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 2010\, and she has a keen research interest in dissent in seventeenth-century New England. Her book\, Roger Williams and His World\, (Peterborough\, Ontario: Broadview Press\, 2024)\, sets Roger Williams in his wider Atlantic world context. She has published book chapters on two seventeenth-century dissenters\, see: “Thomas Morton” in: Atlantic Lives: Biographies that Cross the Ocean (Leiden and Boson: Brill\, 2014) and “Roger Williams and the Architecture of Religious Liberty\,” in Law and Religion and the Liberal State (Oxford: Hart Publishing\, 2020.) Building on her interest in Roger Williams\, she has published an article on his wife\, Mary Williams\, entitled: “More than Roger’s Wife: Mary Williams and the Founding of Providence.” The New England Quarterly\,vol. 97\, no. 3\, Sept. 2024: 308-44. \nCarrington-Farmer also has an active research interest in non-human animal history\, specifically equine history. Her research examines the breeding and export of horses from New England to the West Indies in the eighteenth century\, and its intersection with enslaved lives and labour. She has published a chapter entitled: “Trading Horses in the Eighteenth Century: Rhode Island and the Atlantic World\,” in Kristen Guest and Monica Mattfeld\, eds.\, Equine Cultures: Horses\, Human Society\, and the Discourse of Modernity\, 1700-Present (Chicago: University of Chicago Press\, 2019)\, which won the Association of College and Research Libraries “Outstanding Academic Title” award in 2019. She has published an article entitled: “The Rise and Fall of the Narragansett Pacer\,” Rhode Island History\, Winter/Spring 2018\, vol. 76\, no. 1: 1-38. The article was accompanied by a travelling exhibition on the Narragansett Pacer horse through Rhode Island Historical Society. Her most recent research in the field of equine history centres on mules\, see: “Shipping Mules in the Eighteenth-Century: New England’s Equine Exports to the West Indies\,” in Elodie Peyrol-Kleiber\, Lou Roper\, Agnès Delahaye\, and Bertrand Van Ruymbeke\, eds.\, Agents of Empires: Companies\, Commerce\, and Colonies 1500-1800\, (Manchester: University of Manchester Press\, 2024.) Dr. Carrington-Farmer has a forthcoming chapter surveying equines in Atlantic history with Oxford University Press: “Horses in the Early Modern Atlantic World\,” in Trevor Burnard\, ed.\, Oxford Bibliographies in Atlantic History\, (Oxford: Oxford University Press\, forthcoming 2025.) Her book manuscript in progress\, which received a New England Regional Fellowship Consortium research grant\, is tentatively titled: Equine Atlantic: New England’s Eighteenth-Century Horse Trade to the West Indies. \nDr. Carrington-Farmer has reviewed books for the Journal of American History\, The New England Quarterly\, Connecticut History Review\, History: Reviews of New Books\, Equine History Collective\, and The American Historical Review. She has written pieces for The Junto\, The Spectacle of Toleration\, and Newport Historical Society blogs\, and recorded podcasts for the Knowing Animals series. Carrington-Farmer was a featured historian in several episodes of the multi-award-winning documentary series\, Slatersville: America’s First Mill Village\, which premiered on Rhode Island PBS in 2022. \nNew England horses\, sugar & slavery in the 18th Century formed something of an equine empire\, with horses dominating every aspect of the early modern Atlantic world in a way that is almost inconceivable today. Horses were central to trade\, labor\, war\, mobility\, structures of power\, and empire building. The breeding of riding and draft horses for exportation to the West Indies was an integral part of New England’s economy throughout the long eighteenth century. New England’s landscape was naturally well-suited to raising horses\, and the region was perfectly poised geographically with pre-existing provisioning connections. Whilst local markets were significant to the industry\, the primary driver was the sugar plantations in the West Indies. By the turn of the eighteenth century\, horses were at forefront of the trading markets which dominated the busy aquatic highway between New England and the West Indies. In the West Indies\, equines were not only essential for riding\, travel\, and fertilizing the fields\, but most importantly as draft animals on sugar plantations. New England’s horse trade was part of the competing chain of supply and demand for animal labor\, and rival empires fiercely guarded the equines that powered their sugar mills and profits. For New Englanders\, shipping equine cargo was a risky business\, but a profitable one.
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CATEGORIES:Speaker Series,Speaker Series 2025-2026
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SUMMARY:Indigenous Maritime Culture in North America
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””] \n\n2025-2026 Speaker Series\n\nIndigenous Maritime Culture\nin North America\nLincoln Paine\, Maritime Historian\nWednesday\, May 13\, 2026 at 7:00 pm\nRegister for Zoom Presentation\n\nLincoln Paine \n\n\nNative American (perhaps a man named Wasco) with a dugout canoe near Celilo Falls\non the Columbia River in Oregon\, 1897. Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress.\n  \nFriends of Merrymeeting Bay’s (FOMB) final presentation of our 29th annual Winter Speaker Series: Indigenous Maritime Culture in North America features Lincoln Paine\, maritime historian. Winter Speaker Series presentations are held via Zoom and accessible via hyperlink at the top of the FOMB web page: www.fomb.org. This event takes place Wednesday\, May 13th at 7 pm. \nBefore the 1950s\, if you wanted to get to the Americas\, you had to come by boat. This was true for the waves of celebrities aboard art deco-inspired ocean liners\, of nineteenth-century European immigrants\, of enslaved Africans from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries\, and of Spanish\, English\, and other European conquistadors from the late fourteenth century. It was also true for successive waves of people who\, starting around 15\,000 years ago\, migrated from Northeast Asia to North America and then spread south\, east\, and\, as the ice sheet retreated\, north\, many of them relying on rivers and lakes for migration\, fishing\, hunting\, as well as cultural and economic exchange. This talk will sketch the broad outlines of Native Americans’ waterway and watercraft use over the many millennia before Europeans even imagined such a thing as the Americas. \nLincoln Paine is a maritime historian\, author\, editor\, and curator whose books include award-winning The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World\, and Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia. Paine is President of the North American Society for Oceanic History (NASOH) and Visiting Scholar at the Center for Oceans and Coastal Law\, University of Maine School of Law. \nFrom 2009 to 2012\, Paine was guest curator and archivist of the Norman H. Morse Collection of Ocean Liner Materials at the Osher Map Library\, University of Southern Maine. He is chair of the board of the Maine Maritime Museum in Bath\, Maine\, which has been named one of the ten best maritime museums in the world. Paine has lectured on topics across the broad spectrum of maritime enterprise\, including literature of the sea\, exploration\, museum curatorship\, decorative arts\, maritime law\, trade\, and naval history. \nA frequent guest in academic settings\, he has spoken at NOVA University of Lisbon; Ocean University of China\, Qingdao; Leiden University\, the Netherlands; Tulane Law School; Tufts University; College of the Atlantic; the Naval War College; and the U.S. Naval Academy\, among others. Paine has participated in public affairs forums including the Commonwealth Club of California and Times of India LitFest as well as frequently addressing meetings of the North American Society for Oceanic History (NASOH)\, the International Maritime History Association\, and the World History Association. A graduate of Columbia College\, NY with a BA in Latin\, Paine has helped organize four tall ship events. Before turning to writing fulltime\, he spent fourteen years as a non-fiction and reference book editor in New York. \nFOMB hosts our Winter Speaker Series October-May\, on the second Wednesday of each month. Due to the Covid 19 pandemic and ability for participants to attend from out of the area\, the series continues via Zoom.\nSpeaker Series presentations are free\, open to the public. Visit www.fomb.org to see speaker biographies\, full event schedules\, video recordings of past presentations\, become a member\, and learn more about how you can help protect beautiful Merrymeeting Bay and the Gulf of Maine. \nStay tuned for FOMB’s 2016 Summer Outside Series schedule! \nFor more information contact FOMB at 207-666-3372 or edfomb@comcast.net. \nView Zoom Presentation on YouTube \n[/vc_column_text][vc_video link=”https://youtu.be/DD4SwfMRQEk?si=GNERXuIWH5DnKrcc” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_widget_sidebar sidebar_id=”sidebar_1″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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