Bringing Art and Science Together
We are launching a new project focused on bringing arts-based methods into coastal community resilience science and practice, thanks to support from UMaine’s Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions.
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Congratulations, Dr. Jen Smith-Mayo!
Congratulations to Dr. Jennifer Smith-Mayo! Earlier this semester, Jen successfully defended her PhD dissertation entitled An Engaged Approach to Tracing How Practices of Articulation Shape Embodiment and Materiality in a Science-based […]
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Reflecting on ecosystem-based management
Last week, I participated in a symposium at the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) annual meeting in Boston, Massachusetts. This is an impressive scientific society, including more […]
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Heather reflects on science communication
Thanks to the National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF) for including our work in this story on science communication: https://www.neefusa.org/story/environmental-education/why-science-communication-important
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Community Science Update
We had a long field season this year, starting with focus groups in the spring and then shellfish ecological studies that spanned the summer and fall. The last couple of […]
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Congratulations, Dr. Phoebe Jekielek!
Congratulations to Dr. Phoebe Jekielek! On September 19th, Phoebe successfully defended her PhD dissertation entitled Integrating life history and environmental DNA (eDNA) data to enhance detection of sea scallop (Placopecten magellanicus) populations, in partial fulfilment of her […]
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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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Progress towards ecosystem-based management
Read on to learn about the progress of marine ecosystem-based management, in light of a recent publication in Ocean Sustainability that Heather contributed to. The team shared their findings in an […]
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Scallop news
Check out this recent Portland Press Herald article about the collaborative work that Leslie Lab grad student Phoebe Jekielek is engaged in.
