Adapting to change
For more than 20 years, Heather has collaborated with an international group of researchers to study how coastal communities respond to environmental, economic and political pressures in the Gulf of California […]
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Engaging in offshore wind development
introducing the guide We are delighted to share How to Engage in Offshore Wind Development: A Guide to Values, Questions, Perspectives, and Pathways Forward in Coastal Maine, with you. […]
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Community Science Update
Graduate students Sarah Risley (above) and Melissa Britsch (now at the Maine Coastal Program) led local knowledge research in the Damariscotta and Medomak River estuaries. This open-access study was just […]
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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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Communicating across disciplines
Leslie Lab members and other UMaine researchers from a range of disciplines — including anthropology, ecology and environmental science, genetics, journalism, marine science and Native American studies — collaborated on […]
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Sarah presents community shellfish project
Graduate student Sarah Risley presented the State of the Damariscotta River Estuary report to the Damariscotta Board of Selectmen on Wednesday evening, November 3, 2021. You can watch the video […]
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New research on aquaculture
Congratulations to Melissa on the publication of her Masters thesis research in Marine Policy! https://umaine.edu/news/blog/2021/09/07/new-aquaculture-research-highlights-areas-of-consensus-disagreement/
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Damariscotta StoryMap launched
Melissa Britsch and Heather Leslie have launched a StoryMap focused on research in the Damariscotta River Estuary. They highlight the roles diverse researchers and research stations have played in generating […]
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Connecting co-management and ecosystem-based fisheries management
Leslie Lab lab alumna Marina Cucuzza, together with her co-advisors Heather Leslie and Joshua Stoll, just published a paper in Marine Policy on the conceptual connections between ecosystem-based fisheries management (EBFM) and […]
