Kaitlyn Haynal is Postdoctoral Research Associate working on Maine EPSCoR’s current NSF EPSCoR Track-1 program, Maine-eDNA. Her home department is the University of Maine’s Department of Communication and Journalism. Haynal works with her advisors Dr. Bridie McGreavy, an Associate Professor of Environmental Communication, and Dr. Heather Leslie, the Director of the Darling Marine Center. It […]
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by Jane Horovitz, EPSCoR Student Writer Sharon Mann did not come from a scientific background or an academic family. After attending a small private college for a short amount of time and studying humanities fresh out of high school, Mann dropped out and moved to Alaska instead. There, she worked in two fishing industry positions […]
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By Marcella M. Silver Daniella Leal Espinal is an undergraduate student studying Microbiology at the University of Maine who recently became involved with Maine EPSCoR’s current NSF EPSCoR Track-1 grant, Maine-eDNA. According to Leal Espinal, she started looking for a job related to DNA sequencing, microbiology, and genetics and found the Student Research Assistant position […]
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By Maine EPSCoR student writers, Jane Horovitz and Attis Bielecki with Marcella Silver Prior to being hired as a new faculty member on Maine EPSCoR’s current Track-1 program, Maine-eDNA, Andrew Rominger conducted his Ph.D. research at the University of California Berkeley and postdoctoral research at the Santa Fe Institute. He was involved in a large […]
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Jane Horovitz, EPSCoR Student Writer Samuel Tan, from Singapore, is a new Ph.D. student in the University of Maine’s School of Marine Sciences, working with Maine EPSCoR’s current Track-1 award, Maine-eDNA. According to Tan, despite Singapore’s urbanization, the area has a surprising amount of wildlife on land and in sea. “Even though our water there is […]
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Associate Professor, Brian Tarbox, has been teaching in the Marine Science program at Southern Maine Community College since the 1990s. Tarbox has a unique professional background, which includes a Master’s degree in fisheries from the University of Maine, and past work experience in the aquaculture and fisheries industries, as well as experience with commercial diving […]
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Mary-Kate Beard-Tisdale, a University of Maine faculty member and Co-Principal Investigator on the Maine-eDNA program, has been working hard with her Graduate Research Assistant, Melissa Kimble, in order to create a tool essential to collecting the program’s data. The tool comes in the form of a cross-platform application known as Survey123. “The main purpose of […]
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by Jane Horovitz, Maine EPSCoR Student Writer Sydney Greenlee, who is originally from Chantilly, Virginia, knew she wanted to be a marine biologist since the age of two, but she never really saw herself as a molecular ecologist. That is, until she did a REU (research undergraduate experience) with Pete Countway at Bigelow Laboratory for […]
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Learn about some of the newest and most impactful NSF EPSCoR-funded research and outreach taking place in the state of Maine. Photos featured in this newsletter were taken prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Featured Articles include: Maine’s Acadian Forest: The potential frontline of climate change in the age of vulnerability and big data […]
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by Liz Theriault, Maine EPSCoR Student Writer MAINE EPSCOR’S NEWEST TRACK-1 GRANT, titled Molecule to Ecosystem: Environmental DNA as a Nexus for Coastal Ecosystem Sustainability for Maine (Maine-eDNA), is bringing environmental DNA research to the Pine Tree State, and positioning Maine as a national leader for understanding eDNA. As a part of the program’s funding, […]
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