UPDATE: I’m no longer accepting applications for postdoc candidates for these competitions. A new call for postdocs will likely occur in mid June 2015. I encourage you to be in touch then. Best, HL Applications are due November 1. The Leslie Lab at Brown University is recruiting postdoctoral research associates interested in empirical and […]
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Environmental anthropologist Dr. Leila Sievanen, formerly a Leslie Lab postdoc, just published an article in Maritime Studies based on research conducted with Heather and others in Baja California Sur, Mexico. Download the paper at the open access journal, Maritime Studies View the Mexico project blog to learn more about the larger project and related publications Citation: Sievanen, […]
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Leslie Lab PhD student Sarah Crosby successfully defended her PhD dissertation, Salt Marshes in a Changing Climate, on August 25th. We’re fortunate that Sarah will continue with the lab this semester, thanks to recent awards from the US EPA STAR program and the Marine Biological Laboratory’s Watson Fellowship. Congratulations, Sarah!
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For her senior independent research in Marine Biology, Brown University undergraduate researcher Karen Cortes (Class of 2014) synthesized the water quality data available for Narragansett Bay. Her work highlights the importance of water quality for many of nature’s benefits, including food provision, recreation and coastal protection. She summarizes her findings in a two page brief as well as […]
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Members of our team continue to share our findings with fishermen, resource managers, conservation practitioners, and other experts in the communities in the vicinity of Loreto, Espiritu Santo, and Cabo Pulmo National Parks, where we have conducted extensive ecological and social science research. Read more….
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Members of our team continue to share our findings with fishermen, resource managers, conservation practitioners, and other experts in the communities in the vicinity of Loreto, Espiritu Santo, and Cabo Pulmo National Parks, where we have conducted extensive ecological and social science research. In January 2014, for example, as part of an effort to report […]
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Leslie Lab member Megan Palmer (Brown Class of 2014, Biology) penned a personal essay for Heather’s senior seminar, Engaged Environmental Scholarship and Communication, reflecting on her independent interdisciplinary research and capstone coursework in Biology and Environmental Science. Technically, there’s no camping on Block Island. But over the second weekend of the fall semester, my Coastal Ecology + […]
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Erica Goldman, Assistant Director of Science Policy Outreach at COMPASS, blogged this week on ways academic scientists balance policy engagement with their teaching and research activities. I am honored to be called out as an example. Read the post here…. and check back soon to learn about this spring and summer’s field work in Baja.
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A new study by Jeremy Rich and colleagues reports that anammox, a key process in the nitrogen cycle, is barely present in Narragansett Bay even though it’s a major factor just a little farther out into Rhode Island Sound. Scientists traced that to differences between bay and sound sediments, but that raises new questions […]
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On Wednesday, April 30, in Salomon Hall 001 from 7:00 to 9:00 pm, Brown will host the Beneath the Waves Film Festival. This is a showcase of several short, independent films about ocean science and conservation. Most of the films were created by scientists, students, and lovers of the ocean who had a powerful story to […]
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