By Jane Horovitz, ME EPSCoR Student Writer Phoebe Jekielek grew up in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, about seven hours away from the ocean. Ever since she was 10 years old, Jekielek knew she wanted to study marine biology, even though she was a little scared of what was in the ocean. The intimidation didn’t stop Jekielek, but […]
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Jane Horovitz, ME EPSCoR Student Writer After Grayson Huston received his undergraduate degree in marine science from the University of California, Berkeley, he decided to not go directly into graduate school, largely because he wasn’t sure what he wanted to specialize in. He knew he wanted to study science, either marine or aquatic, but he […]
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Jane Horovitz, EPSCoR Student Writer Alex Ascher has always been drawn to the less understood aspects of science. So, naturally, he was interested in the marine world. Ascher sees the ocean as a black box — something that’s difficult to understand fully, but serves as a great opportunity to explore new routes of investigation. In […]
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Discovering how things work has been one of Dr. Markus Frederich’s favorite activities since he was a child, so it’s no surprise that his research is based on physiology: the branch of biology that deals with the functions and parts of living organisms, such as animals, and how they work. Frederich is a Professor of […]
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Jane Horovitz, EPSCoR Student Writer It seems like Julia Sunnarborg has studied just about every animal, everywhere. She’s studied whales in the Caribbean, birds in West Africa, lizards in the Solomon Islands, and frog specimens in a museum. Now she’s off to her next adventure — in Maine. This time she will be working with […]
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With funding from the U.S. Geological Survey’s 104b program, the Maine Water Resources Research Institute (WRRI) in the Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions supports research and outreach to enhance the capacity for the sustainable management of water resources across the state. We request proposals for solutions-driven projects in which interdisciplinary research teams collaborate closely with stakeholders […]
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Jane Horovitz, EPSCoR Student Writer Kyle Oliveira grew up only 15 minutes from the coast in Brick, New Jersey. His mother is an engineer and his father is an eighth grade science teacher, so from a young age, Oliveira was immersed in STEM. “I think I just grew up into a type of culture that […]
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White Paper and Supporting Documentation: Sept. 21, 2020 Full Proposal: Feb. 15, 2021 The FY20 Defense Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (DEPSCoR) funding opportunity announcement is open and available on grants.gov at https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=326765. While this opportunity is quite similar to last year’s solicitation (two-person team, award amount, evaluation process), there are differences (scoped by topic areas, increased total […]
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Lauren Crofton-Macdonald recently joined the Maine-eDNA team as the program’s Research Coordinator. Crofton-Macdonald has been involved in the environmental DNA (eDNA) field since her undergraduate training at Viterbo University, where she received a Bachelor’s degree in biology. She was introduced to the emerging field of eDNA during a summer internship at a United States Geological […]
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Jane Horovitz, EPSCoR Student Writer Emily Pierce has always been drawn to the ocean and the marine life within it. Pierce grew up in Reno, Nevada, quite a ways from the coast, but decided to study biology at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, where she spent a lot of time on the ocean. Pierce recently […]
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