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. Here, Leslie Lab affiliate Dr. Jess Reilly-Moman reflects on her experience supporting the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee over the last year. An Anthropologist and An […]
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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 visited, in March 2020, as the pandemic was spreading across the globe. I was grateful to be able to travel with a close colleague and […]
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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) and based on more than 10 years of fisheries data collected by fishermen and curated by the Mexican government. Learn more about the study here.
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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 particularly oriented towards researchers and practitioners working on enhancing community resilience to climate change impacts. Jess would greatly appreciate your feedback and questions. Specifically, do […]
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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, with Northeast fishing and coastal communities. Their project, Building Capacity for Participatory Approaches to Community Resilience and Ocean Renewable Energy Siting, will characterize values and beliefs […]
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Heather and Jess were among the more than 200 contributors to the work of the Maine Climate Council this past year. Read more…
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Congratulations to Dr. Kara Pellowe on her recent publication, which is one of several papers she developed as part of her dissertation in Ecology and Environmental Sciences at University of Maine. Fishermen adapt to environmental change in varied ways, UMaine study finds
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Menge, B. A., M. Bracken, J. Lubchenco, and H. M. Leslie. 2017. Alternative state? Experimentally-induced Fucus canopy persists 38 years in an Ascophyllum-dominated community. Ecosphere, doi: 10.1002/ecs2.1725. Experimental tests of the hypothesis that ecological communities can exist in “multiple stable states” are rare, and some argue, impossible, because of the unlikelihood that any system will […]
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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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