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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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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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