Climate Change

  • Reflecting on the Maine Climate Council process 

    The Maine Climate Council Scientific and Technical Subcommittee recently released their 2024 report, which guides the work of the Council in finalizing the Maine Climate Action Plan later this year. […]

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  • Connecting local and scientific knowledge

    Earlier this spring, I traveled to La Paz, on the gulf coast of the Mexican state of Baja California Sur (BCS). It had been four years since I had last […]

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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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  • 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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  • New ocean renewable energy project

    Jess and Heather have been awarded funds from the Northeast Sea Grant Consortium to conduct social science that supports the coexistence of marine energy, including wind, current, tidal and wave energies, […]

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