FIELD NOTES

  • Navigating the Ocean Uncommons

    Emma Polhemus worked as a summer research intern at the University of Maine Darling Marine Center in 2023. Mentored by Drs. Jessica Reilly-Moman and Heather Leslie, Emma focused on participatory […]

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  • Place-Technology Fit of Ocean Renewable Energy

    Members of the Leslie Lab are investigating how values and beliefs influence people’s responses to ocean renewable energy development and how those values and beliefs differ by place. To do […]

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  • Indicators of Climate Resilience

    Dr. Jessica Reilly-Moman, research affiliate in the Leslie Lab, recently gave a presentation on her research on social indicators of climate resilience to the MAREA+ network. This 20-minute presentation is […]

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  • Will’s capstone project!

    Leslie Lab member Will Spaller created this video about Semester by the Sea as part of his Marine Sciences capstone project in collaboration with his classmates in Fall 2022. Thank […]

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  • Phoebe & LA students sort scallops

    Thanks to PhD candidate Phoebe Jekielek for sharing her science with Aquaponics students from Lincoln Academy earlier this week. Students helped Phoebe to sort young scallops and other invertebrates from […]

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  • Audrey’s climate action work highlighted

    2022 Leslie Lab intern Audrey Hufnagel was quoted in the Portland Press Herald, as part of an article highlighting the work that she and other youth climate activists are doing to […]

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  • How communication shapes research practice and outcomes

    Congratulations to graduate student Jen Smith-Mayo! Jen just published an article in Communication Design Quarterly – “Embodied Participation: (re)Situating Bodies in Collaborative Research” – highlighting how the many ways in which people […]

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  • Heather elected AAAS Fellow

    Heather Leslie, professor of marine science and director of the Darling Marine Center at the University of Maine, has been named a 2022 American Association for the Advancement of Science […]

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  • Marine ecology on the Maine coast

    Sophia Pelletier served as an undergraduate research assistant in the Leslie Lab at UMaine’s Darling Marine Center in summer 2022. She is from San Diego, CA and currently lives in […]

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  • Heather on coastal resilience

    Maine Campus Media covered Heather’s recent seminar as part of the Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions. Learn more here… You can watch Heather’s one-hour seminar here.

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