Victoria Brown, Class of 2015, authored this essay for Engaged Environmental Communication and Scholarship, the capstone course Prof. Leslie taught as part of the Voss Environmental Fellows Program in Spring 2016. Here, in her own words, Victoria reflects on what engaged scholarship means to her. I walked past rows and rows of women, some sitting in […]
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Loreto, June 2015 This year, 2015, was the first year that the Annual Chocolate Clam Festival in Loreto, Mexico included a bilingual Clam Biology tent as part of the festivities. The tent featured a large diagram of the clam life cycle with interesting facts about chocolate clams, and educational coloring pages for kids. The real […]
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Meeting human needs while sustaining ecosystems and the benefits they provide is a global challenge. Coastal marine systems present a particularly important case, given that >50% of the world’s population lives within 100 km of the coast and fisheries are the primary source of protein for >1 billion people worldwide. Our integrative analysis here yields […]
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Heather and former Brown undergraduate Megan Palmer (Class of 2014) just published an article in Marine Technology Society Journal on the value of taking an ecosystem services approach to assessing the impacts of tidal energy development. The results are described here, and also were picked up by RI NPR!
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The Hidden Nature of Baja, January 2015 The wind was blowing hard out of the north already at 8 AM and was predicted to increase. We squeezed into an old white pick up truck that Sara had already loaded with our gear, and drove south. The peaks of the Sierra de la Giganta hugged us […]
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Leslie Lab members published results from a multi year study at 18 rocky shore sites from Maine to New York state in Ecosphere this week. Mussels could be the perfect ‘sentinel’ species to signal the health of coastal ecosystems. But a new study of blue mussels in estuary ecosystems along 600 kilometers of coastline in […]
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I am thrilled to have been selected as a 2015 Leopold Leadership Fellow! Not only is it a great honor to join the network of fellows; it also is really exciting to have the intellectual space to focus on a new dimension of my research. My quest this year is to explore different perspectives on marine conservation […]
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In this age of ever increasing technological capacity and the global reach of economies, political institutions, and yes, disease and other environmental harms, we scientists do not have all the answers to the question every citizen asks: What shall we do? We do, however, know a lot that can help. In the comment published today in […]
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In her Oct 8 blog post, Karen McLeod of COMPASS wrote, “Being a scientist is more than a job – it’s a way of thinking, a way of living, a way of interacting with the world. For some of you, it is the best job in the world! Our passion is clearly important, and yet … we […]
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Do you know of great early grad students working in conservation and applied ecology? We’re pulling together a proposal for an Organized Poster Session at next year’s centennial ESA meeting in Baltimore. The session will focus on “Ecological science that can make a difference in the real world.” Our goal is to provide a venue for students […]
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