{"id":49150,"date":"2011-09-29T12:19:37","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T16:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=49150"},"modified":"2017-11-03T14:31:22","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T18:31:22","slug":"49150","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2011\/09\/29\/49150\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Maine river restoration documentary features environmental economist Lynne Lewis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor of Economics Lynne Lewis&#8217; collaborative work on Maine river rehabilitation is featured in the Maine Public Broadcasting Network documentary series <em>Sustainable Maine.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the series episode &#8220;Desperate Alewives,&#8221; Lewis joins the discussion of how restoring just one species of river fish, the alewife, can play a huge role in rejuvenating a river\u2019s food web. In the process, Lewis and her interdisciplinary team of researchers and fisheries experts answer the always-important question: Why does river rehabilitation matter?<\/p>\n<p>Lewis and her team&#8217;s project is called <a href=\"http:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/rivers-estuaries-and-coastal-fisheries\/\">&#8220;Maine Rivers, Estuaries and Coastal Fisheries.&#8221;<\/a> Also including Bates geology professor Beverly Johnson and researchers from Bowdoin College and the University of Southern Maine, the interdisciplinary effort is part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.umaine.edu\/sustainabilitysolutions\/news\/sustainable_maine.html\">Sustainability Solutions Initiative<\/a> at the University of Maine.<\/p>\n<p>Funded by the National Science Foundation, the collaboration will weigh the costs and benefits of river rehabilitation in Maine and the effects of rehabilitation efforts on fisheries and economies.<\/p>\n<p>An environmental economist who chairs the Bates economics department,  Lewis&#8217; own research explores the  potential benefits and costs of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/x187777.xml\"> river rehabilitation and, specifically, dam removal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson&#8217;s research seeks to <a href=\"http:\/\/thegulfofmaine.com\/\">reconstruct the Gulf of Maine&#8217;s ancient nearshore ecosystem<\/a> in order to help scientists predict current responses to natural and human influences. Funded by a $393,000 NSF grant, the interdiscplinary project also includes Will Ambrose (biology) and Bruce  Bourque (archeology) of Bates\u00a0 and Robert Steneck of UMaine&#8217;s School of Marine  Sciences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor of Economics Lynne Lewis&#8217; collaborative work on Maine river rehabilitation is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[4,130,14,32],"tags":[3117,10760],"class_list":["post-49150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-life","category-collaboration","category-faculty-staff","category-maine-and-new-england","tag-economics","tag-environmental-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93405,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49150\/revisions\/93405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}