FIELD NOTES

  • Progress towards ecosystem-based management

    Read on to learn about the progress of marine ecosystem-based management, in light of a recent publication in Ocean Sustainability that Heather contributed to.  The team shared their findings in an […]

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  • Scallop news

    Check out this recent Portland Press Herald article about the collaborative work that Leslie Lab grad student Phoebe Jekielek is engaged in.

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  • Community Science Update

    This spring, as part of an ongoing community science project in collaboration with the Damariscotta-Newcastle Joint Shellfish Committee, we are hosting a series of focus group discussions to discuss values […]

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  • Our shared ocean

    A special issue of Maine Policy Review – Our Shared Ocean – features work by multiple Leslie Lab members: Graduate student Sarah Risley (above) led publication of findings from the […]

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  • Fishers’ resilence to climate impacts

    Tim Frawley, Heather Leslie and other members of the MAREA+ team just published a new paper in Global Environmental Change. The study was funded by the National Science Foundation (Award BCS-2009821) […]

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  • Communication shapes collaboration

    Listen to this interview with Leslie Lab member Jennifer Smith-Mayo to learn how transdisciplinary collaboration is shaped by communication, team science, engaged digital media, and practices and process. More of […]

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  • Summer internships

    https://dmc.umaine.edu/2024/01/22/undergraduate-research-internship-in-estuarine-ecology-applications-will-be-reviewed-starting-february-5-2024/

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  • Community Science Update

    Since 2019, researchers at UMaine’s Darling Marine Center and members of the joint shellfish committee of Damariscotta and Newcastle have collaborated on a community science project focused on the ecology […]

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  • Ecosystem science grad opportunities

    I am pleased to share information about a new National Research Traineeship program at the University of Maine for graduate students interested in interdisciplinary marine ecosystem science. Our program, funded by the National […]

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  • Engaged research featured in new book

    Publication Announcement We have a chapter on engaged research in coastal Maine in the forthcoming book, Climate Change and Estuaries. This book is scheduled for publication on September 15th, the […]

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