Congratulations, Dr. Phoebe Jekielek!
Congratulations to Dr. Phoebe Jekielek! On September 19th, Phoebe successfully defended her PhD dissertation entitled Integrating life history and environmental DNA (eDNA) data to enhance detection of sea scallop (Placopecten magellanicus) populations, in partial fulfilment of her doctoral degree requirements for UMaine’s Graduate Program in Ecology and Environmental Sciences. Phoebe starts a postdoc with the Brady Lab next month and will be working with Profs. Brady, Leslie and others at the DMC and statewide on the environmental and policy dimensions of scallop aquaculture.